The reasoning layer for the classroom

Understand how students
arrive at their answers.

BreadCrumb captures the evidence students use, the reasoning they show, and how their thinking changes across classroom work.

βœ“Built with teachersβœ“Designed for Grades 4–8
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CLASS DASHBOARD

Grade 6A

Spring Term
24

Students

8

Assignments

5

Insights

3

Need Support

Class Overview

Reasoning activity

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Student Spotlight

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MayaOn Track
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AidenNeeds Support
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SofiaGrowing
The problem

A correct answer doesn't tell the whole story.

Teachers see what students submit. The thinking that produced the answer is much harder to see.

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Classroom Question

Should cities ban cars from downtown cores?

Student Answer

Yes.
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Correct or incorrect, the final answer gives the teacher only one moment in a much larger thinking process.

What's missing?

πŸ“„What evidence did they consider?
πŸ’­What assumptions did they make?
πŸ”„Did their thinking change?
❓Where did they get stuck?
⚠️What misconceptions remain?

Teachers often see the final answer. BreadCrumb helps make the thinking behind it visible.

How it works

Follow the thinking, step by step.

BreadCrumb captures the reasoning process instead of reducing learning to one final submission.

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Initial Idea

What does the student think before exploring the problem?

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Evidence

What sources, examples, or information do they consider?

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Reasoning

How do they connect the evidence to their position?

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Revision

What changes when they encounter new information?

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Final Response

Where did their thinking eventually land?

For teachers

One place to understand a student's thinking.

Move beyond disconnected assignments and build a clearer picture of how students reason, revise, and grow.

🍞BreadCrumb

CLASS DASHBOARD

Grade 6A

Spring Term
24

Students

8

Assignments

5

Insights

3

Need Support

Class Overview

Reasoning activity

View report
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6

Student Spotlight

πŸ‘§πŸ½
MayaOn Track
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AidenNeeds Support
πŸ‘§πŸΏ
SofiaGrowing
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Reasoning Profiles

See recurring strengths, misconceptions, and reasoning habits across student work.

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Reasoning Maps

Connect individual assignments into a growing picture of how student thinking develops.

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Teacher Insights

Surface patterns that would be difficult to identify from individual assignments alone.

Longitudinal reasoning

An assignment is a snapshot.
BreadCrumb builds the story.

One assignment

Interesting.

Across a semester

Growing profile
Now the pattern becomes visible.

BreadCrumb connects evidence from multiple classroom activities so teachers can identify patterns that emerge across assignments, subjects, and time.

Student reasoning profile

Understand the pattern behind the work.

BreadCrumb brings a student's reasoning evidence together so teachers can see strengths, growth areas, and changes over time.

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Evidence stays connected.

Every insight should link back to the student work that produced it.

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Maya

Grade 6

Growing
OverviewWorkReasoning MapInsights

Strengths

  • βœ“Finds relevant evidence
  • βœ“Analyzes multiple perspectives
  • βœ“Clear justifications

Growth Areas

  • β†’Revises initial position
  • β†’Uses evidence to change thinking
  • β†’Considers counterarguments

Reasoning Map

Evidence from recent work

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BreadCrumb Insight

Emerging Pattern

Maya consistently identifies relevant evidence but rarely uses it to revise her initial position.

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Suggested next activity

Compare two conflicting sources on the same topic and explain which evidence changed your thinking.

Teacher-supported AI

Turn patterns into possible next steps.

Once BreadCrumb understands the history behind the work, AI can help surface patterns and suggest instructional opportunities.

AI supports the teacher. It does not replace teacher judgment.

Teachers remain in control of interpretation, interventions, and instructional decisions.

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Built with teachers

Designed for the realities of classrooms.

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OCT educator co-founder

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Additional teachers committed to early testing

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Initial grade focus

We're building BreadCrumb alongside educators and testing it against real classroom workflows from the beginning.

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Building the reasoning layer for the classroom.

Small steps. Big thinking.

BreadCrumb helps teachers understand the reasoning behind student work and see how that thinking develops over time.