Mastery-based learning
Every child deserves to be deeply understood.
Switchback turns the evidence a teacher already collects into something they can act on tomorrow morning — fill the gap, offer the extension, make the growth visible.
See the gap
Evidence you capture however you like — a photo, an observation, an exit ticket — rolls up onto the standards, so what a learner needs next is on the surface instead of buried.
Offer the extension
The learner who is ready to go further is as visible as the one who is stuck. Both are the same question asked of the same evidence.
Make growth visible
Progress is shown as a direction over time, for the teacher and for the family — not as a grade, and never as a label a child carries.
When instruction is informed by evidence, the child is the one who grows.
The teacher remains the expert. Switchback proposes; nothing counts until a teacher says it does.