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Headshot of a smiling woman with long blonde hair wearing a lanyard in a school science lab

Tips for teachers · 6 March 2024

The Tassomai Triangle: School – Parent – Tassomai: “How We Did it…“ with Cara Steele

In the second of our “How We Did It…” webinar series Murray spoke to Cara Steele, Curriculum Leader for Science at Marple Hall School in Manchester who implemented Tassomai in 2019 when they were looking at overhauling homework and have been one of our top users ever since.

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Tips for parents, Tips for teachers · 1 March 2024

A mentor like me: helping girls to thrive in STEM subjects

Today we have a guest blog from the WISE Campaign talking about the importance of role models in ensuring more girls take STEM subjects at school and pursue careers in STEM industries.

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Tips for teachers · 26 February 2024

Closing the attainment gap with Tassomai

How Tassomai is creating features to target Pupil Premium attainment and helping to close the gap in education. Teachers can sign up to be part of our trial here…

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Words 'January challenge' in white handwritten letters on a blue circle

Tips for teachers, Tips for students, Tips for parents · 8 February 2024

January Challenge Prize Draw Results

We’ve looked through January’s data to see who completed 20 or more Daily Goals , and we’ve drawn our winners from the eligible Tassomai students.

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Case study, Tips for teachers, Tips for users · 8 February 2024

Hungry for knowledge – swapping lunch queue passes for revision performance. “How We Did it…“ with Claire Crichton-Allen

Claire Crichton-Allen, an experienced Head of Department speaks to us about incentivising students without any budget and exceeding the National Average by 10% to get her school’s best-ever GCSE science results.

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Tips for parents, Tips for teachers · 2 February 2024

3 new MFL vocabulary courses

Tassomai announce the launch of new MFL (Modern Foreign Language) courses covering the key vocabulary lists for Spanish, French and German.

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Tips for teachers · 29 January 2024

"How We Did It" - Claire Crichton-Allen

Introducing “How We Did It” …, a new series of webinars for teachers. In this first webinar Tassomai's founder, Murray talks with Claire Crichton-Allen whose approach to implementing Tassomai made a big impact in a short space of time.

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Tips for teachers, News · 17 January 2024

Mai, our AI tutor is now available for Tassomai schools

The Tassomai team are delighted to announce that Mai, our AI-powered tutor is now included in our packages for schools.

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Illustration of hands marking a January calendar with a badge reading 'Tassomai's big January challenge'

Tips for teachers, Tips for parents, Tips for students · 8 December 2023

Tassomai’s January Challenge!

This new year Tassomai is challenging students to complete their Daily Goal every day in January to be in with the chance of winning a prize! Are your students up to the challenge?

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News, Tips for teachers · 16 November 2023

Shortlisted for an "AI in Education" BETT Award!

The Tassomai team are delighted to announce that the company has been shortlisted for a BETT Award in the ‘AI in Education’ category for the release of Mai, our new AI-powered tutor!

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News, Tips for teachers · 5 November 2023

Give our AI-powered tutor a try on “Mai Day” - Thursday 16th November

Thursday 16th November is Mai Day ! An opportunity for all Tassomai students to try Mai, our amazing new AI-powered tutor .

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Phone showing a chat with Mai, the AI tutor, offering help with a question about electrolysis of copper sulfate

Tips for teachers, Tips for parents, Tips for students · 17 October 2023

Conversations with Mai, and an update on our AI trial

Hear from students, teachers and parents trialling our new AI tutor and take a look at some of the more amusing conversations students have had with Mai .

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Tips for teachers, News · 31 August 2023

AI and more! What’s new for 23/24…

Meet Mai, our artificial intelligence powered tutor plus new parental engagement features for schools and much more!

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Tips for users, Tips for teachers · 23 August 2023

Introducing: Dark Mode

Tassomai is excited to announce that the app now supports Dark Mode !

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Tips for teachers · 16 August 2023

Why Parental Engagement is Key to Student Success

Parents are more engaged with their children’s learning than ever before, but there is still a lot that can be done to ensure parents are in the best possible position to support their child’s learning. 

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Hand holding a phone showing a chat where Mai offers to help with a question about electrolysis of copper sulfate

Tips for teachers · 30 June 2023

Imagine the impact of Tassomai + AI

Find out what we’ve been working on and watch an example of Tassomai + AI in action to see how this technology has the potential to put a personal tutor into the pocket of every learner.

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Article, Tips for teachers · 9 June 2023

The Long Shadow of Discrimination in Education - Reflecting on the Impact of Section 28 with Professor Catherine Lee

2023 marks 20 years since the repeal of Section 28 and for Pride month Tassomai has spoken to Professor Catherine Lee about her experiences of teaching while the law was in place.

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Tips for teachers, Tips for students · 1 June 2023

Introducing Text-to-Speech - we heard you, now you can hear us!

In response to requests from our users we are excited to launch a new feature that enables students to hear (as well as read) their Tassomai questions.

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News, Tips for teachers · 19 May 2023

Tassomai are Education Resource Awards 2023 winners!

The Tassomai team are delighted to be winners at this year’s ERAs in the Secondary Resource or Equipment – Tools for leadership, management & assessment category .

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Tips for teachers, Article · 10 May 2023

Tassomai meets Doug Lemov

Doug Lemov, author of the international bestseller Teach Like A Champion talks to Tassomai about retrieval practice, the pandemic, rising anxiety amongst teens, and creating a culture of belonging in the classroom.

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