EduTrack — Takao Umehara

The Ask

A classroom teacher plans a whole school year in a paper planbook, tracks standards in a district spreadsheet, and runs each day from memory or a sticky note. Nothing connects the plan to what actually gets taught — or to whether the standards were ever covered.

The Solution

The brief: design a single, humane tool that ties long-range planning, the daily teaching hour, and standards coverage together — and makes planning a year feel approachable instead of paralyzing. Everything lives inside a single rhythm — Plan → Do → Review — so the plan becomes the teaching day, and the teaching day becomes the record.

Tools & Methods

Product Strategy Design System Prototype Drag & Drop Standards Tracking

Plan

A shelf of ready-to-teach, standards-aligned lesson cards

A daily run-of-show with agenda, materials, and conference notes

Review

Standards coverage rolls up automatically from what was planned and taught

Try It — Live Prototype

This is the ClaudeDesign live prototype, the source of truth for the EduTrack design system. Lessons behave like physical index cards: drag them onto days, move through Plan / Do / Review, open a lesson, capture a conference note, and see coverage emerge from the work itself.

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Design System

A planbook, not a dashboard.

EduTrack looks like a beloved paper planbook, not a dashboard. Lessons are physical index cards you pick up and place on days. Surfaces are warm paper; corners are square; shadows say how far off the desk a piece of paper is. Deliberately the opposite of sterile edtech.

01 — Plan: A lesson shelf of ready-to-teach cards above a year-long timeline of every unit.