The same three hands
The confident ones answer. The rest learn that silence is safe.
PUPILSPEAK · FOR ACADEMIC HEADS
Ten on ten in writing. Ask “why?” out loud, and the room goes quiet.
Set one class a two-minute prompt on Tuesday. By Thursday you’ll hear who can explain the idea, who can defend it when pushed, and which ideas nobody can yet say aloud.
By Thursday: your class, reasoning aloud, idea by idea.
EXPLAIN IT BACK · 2 MINIs every prime number odd? Convince me.
TRANSCRIPT
“Most primes are odd — 3, 5, 7. But 2 is prime and it’s even. So no, not every prime is odd.”
Claim stated
Counter-example found
Changed mind with a reason
Is this your starting point?
I’m and what hurts most is
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY
Reasoning is learnt out loud. Most children rarely get a turn.
average correct on Class 9 questions asking for convincing arguments or proofs, 2024
PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024 (NCERT) · parakh.ncert.gov.in · national report
of Indian youth were deemed employable, per the Economic Survey 2023–24
Economic Survey 2023–24 (Ministry of Finance, via PIB) · pib.gov.in · PRID 2034924
of class time is teacher talk, on average (global classroom studies)
Yair (2000), cited in Hattie, Visible Learning (2012) · firstliteracy.org · Hattie teacher-talk excerpt
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Forty children, one period, three get to speak.
The same few hands go up every period. Everyone else learns to wait it out. Nobody hears their half-formed idea, so nobody helps them shape it — until a viva or an interview asks for a reason, out loud.
The memorised paragraph
A perfect written answer can hide an idea the child can’t explain.
Viva-day freeze
Practicals, admission panels and interviews ask for reasons, not recall.
HOW IT WORKS
Say it, get pushed, then say it better.
Two minutes a day, any language, any phone. The software drafts feedback; your teacher hears what matters.
1Explain it back
Each child explains one idea from today’s lesson, in their own words and language.
2Meet a counter-example
They make a claim, hear a case that breaks it, then defend it or change it.
3Feedback on your rubric
Clarity, reasoning and evidence, drafted against your rubric and always labelled as AI.
4Teacher hears the few
Six flagged clips, not forty recordings — about twelve minutes to hear the class think.
PupilSpeakAn idea nobody can explain yet becomes next week’s prompt.
THREE WAYS TO START
Listen in yourself, pilot it with us, or hand it over.
Every way ends at the same place: your class’s reasoning, heard and mapped. Pick how much help you want, and change your mind any time.
For principals who want to hear one class think before anything else.
- 1Pick a class and today’s topic
- 2Children record two minutes each
- 3Open your class reasoning map
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- By Thursday
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Free. No card, no call.
For schools building a speaking habit into one grade, with your English HoD.
- 1A 30-minute call with your English HoD
- 2Your rubric loaded within five days
- 3First clips day 3, review day 14
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Day 3
- WHAT IT TAKES
- A short paid pilot, credited to year one
For owners who want a speaking programme run, not another thing to manage.
- 1Weekly prompts written from your syllabus
- 2Our coaches hear the flagged clips
- 3A debate and viva day each term
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Week one
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Set-up plus a per-student fee, quoted for you
WHAT YOU’LL SEE FIRST
The moment it lands: your quietest child explains friction clearly — and you hear the idea nobody can.
MAKE IT YOURS
A debate coach who pushes back like your best speaker.
ONLY AT YOUR SCHOOL
Your debate teacher’s push-backs, in every child’s practice
The teacher who runs your debates records a few sessions. The coach then asks follow-ups her way — “Convince me”, “What would change your mind?” Only with her written consent, always labelled as AI, and switched off the day she asks.
- She says yes in writing first
- Every prompt is labelled AI coach
- She approves the push-back library
EXPLAIN IT BACK · 2 MINShould our school ban homework? Take a side.
TRANSCRIPT
Coach (AI): “You said homework wastes time. What would change your mind?” Student: “If it took ten minutes and was checked the next day.”
Mrs D’Souza’s style · AI
Kannada + English
Teacher-approved
Your rubric, your weights
Your board’s speaking-and-listening criteria, or your own: clarity, reasoning, evidence.
Every language they think in
Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, English — and the mix children actually speak.
Your occasions
Assembly, practical viva, admission interview, inter-house debate — a prompt set for each.
WHY IT GETS BETTER EVERY TERM
Every recording sharpens next week’s prompt.
Ideas your class can’t yet explain become the next prompts. Your teachers’ best push-backs become the coach’s library. Over a year, your school builds a record of how its children think out loud.
It learns from your own teachers’ questions, so prompts get sharper without anyone writing more.
- 1Child explainsTwo minutes, any language
- 2Feedback draftedLabelled, against your rubric
- 3Teacher hears flagsSix clips, not forty
- 4Push-backs collectedYour teachers’ best questions
- 5Prompts sharpenAimed at unclear ideas
- ↻ Your school’s library of good questions
WHERE IT LEADS
Once you hear them think, you notice what trips them.
When the clips point somewhere new, we lay the maths out beside them. Whether to act is your call.
WHEN YOU NOTICE
A quarter of a class misreads the prompt before they start explaining.
PupilReadTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 400 children × 3 minutes × 10 reading checks = 200 teacher hours a year
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Fewer than a third of a class records an explanation on lesson days.
PupilLiveTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 40 children × 4 quick checks × 36 weeks = 5,760 answers per class a year
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Thirty or more Class 11–12 students ask for interview or viva practice.
Alumni & communityTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 4 alumni mentors × 10 mock interviews × 30 minutes = 20 mentor hours a term
A SCHOOL GROUP IN BALLARI · SINCE 2001
We teach in Ballari every day. Here’s our word, in writing.
PupilTree runs schools before it writes software. Schools that join now get founding terms, a say in the prompt library, and a clean exit if speaking doesn’t earn its place in the week.
Founding terms
Founding-school pricing, held for three years.
Stop on day 14
If no clip review helps your teachers, stop and take your data.
Voices stay inside
Recordings stay with the school and are deleted on a schedule you set.
Family consent first
Families agree to voice recording before any child records.
WHAT WE’LL TRACK WITH YOUChildren recording each weekFlagged clips teachers heardRubric movement per termPrompts set per subject
QUESTIONS
What principals ask us first.
Didn’t see yours? Ask on WhatsApp — a person replies, usually within the hour.
Ask on WhatsAppNo. Children explain science, maths or history in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi or English — or a mix of them.
Who in Class 8B will surprise you when asked why?
Set one class a two-minute prompt today. In two days you’ll hear every child’s reasoning — including the ones who never raise a hand.
No ranks, points or streaksFamily consent before recordingEasy exit by day 14