Writer’s Toolbox was built over a 10-year Research and Development project.  Part of this involved triangulating all the writing skills taught inside Writer’s Toolbox with the world’s major curriculum systems, including International Baccalaureate, British Curriculum, American Common Core, Australian Curriculum, and New Zealand Curriculum.  

An additional layer of essential writing skills was then added based on a meta-analysis of global writing systems across the past 150 years.  This was done to ensure that Writer’s Toolbox was evidence-backed to produce the most robust and comprehensive writing system available.

Writer’s Toolbox provides individualised feedback to student writing according to educational best practice (Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Lysakowski & Walberg, 1982; Kluger & DeNisi , 1996).   As Hattie and Timperley (2007) note, feedback can have “major influences on self-efficacy, self regulatory proficiencies, and beliefs about students as learners, such that the students are encouraged or informed how to better and more effortlessly continue on the task.”  

Accordingly, Toolbox has been built in line with the recommendations of Hatttie and others, whereby it personalises direct feedback about the specific task, affirms the student, identifies key work ons, provides clear next steps, and directs toward specific goals. 

Writer’s Toolbox feedback is automated using our own patented educational AI, specifically built with the educational context in mind.  Toolbox AI is completely unlike Chat GPT or Gemini or other generative AI programs.  Toolbox AI teaches the students; it does not provide answers.

Yes, Writer’s Toolbox is completely differentiated, allowing the teacher to set the writing ability level of the individual student.  Accordingly, the individual student experiences learning—tasks, language, examples, scaffolding, feedback, writing expectations—matched to where they're at.

For formative and summative assessment, schools can build tasks in Writer’s Toolbox that match their localised curriculum or unit or classroom needs.  They can assign these to groups in their class or the class as a whole, and individual learning modules on writing skills—already pre-built in Toolbox—can be pushed even to single students. 

Teachers can give feedback on individual pieces of student writing, or download and mark in their own preferred learning management system.

Student progress and improvement is tracked, not only across a range of writing metrics as they write inside Toolbox (available to both them and their teacher), but also as they complete the pre-built Learning Journey for their year level.  Here, students will learn all the respective writing skills for their year through a complete scope and sequence, involving activities, quizzes, video material, comprehension tasks, and summative writing activities—all pre-made for the teacher to use.  

Progress and improvement is tracked on four levels: whole school, year levels, classes, and individual students.  This includes point in time data for a range of key writing skills and metrics, analysis graphs that track progress throughout the year, detailed class analysis pages that can be exported and tracked, and individual snapshot data that students can access within the tool to set targets/goals and identify their own strengths/weaknesses.

All Writer’s Toolbox data is stored securely by Amazon AWS Servers in Sydney, offering Amazon’s industry standard data encryption and data protection and back-up services. 

For our complete privacy policy and other topics around data, see https://www.writerstoolbox.com/privacy-policy

Writer’s Toolbox schools have access to a dedicated School Success Manager to guide them through their journey, answer questions about classroom implementation, and provide expert advice on getting the most out of the programme.

There is also a full-time Support team on hand to answer all the curly technical questions. 

Writer’s Toolbox was built over a 10-year Research and Development project.  Part of this involved triangulating all the writing skills taught inside Writer’s Toolbox with the world’s major curriculum systems, including International Baccalaureate, British Curriculum, American Common Core, Australian Curriculum, and New Zealand Curriculum.  

An additional layer of essential writing skills was then added based on a meta-analysis of global writing systems across the past 150 years.  This was done to ensure that Writer’s Toolbox was evidence-backed to produce the most robust and comprehensive writing system available.

Writer’s Toolbox provides individualised feedback to student writing according to educational best practice (Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Lysakowski & Walberg, 1982; Kluger & DeNisi , 1996).   As Hattie and Timperley (2007) note, feedback can have “major influences on self-efficacy, self regulatory proficiencies, and beliefs about students as learners, such that the students are encouraged or informed how to better and more effortlessly continue on the task.”  

Accordingly, Toolbox has been built in line with the recommendations of Hatttie and others, whereby it personalises direct feedback about the specific task, affirms the student, identifies key work ons, provides clear next steps, and directs toward specific goals. 

Writer’s Toolbox feedback is automated using our own patented educational AI, specifically built with the educational context in mind.  Toolbox AI is completely unlike Chat GPT or Gemini or other generative AI programs.  Toolbox AI teaches the students; it does not provide answers.

Yes, Writer’s Toolbox is completely differentiated, allowing the teacher to set the writing ability level of the individual student.  Accordingly, the individual student experiences learning—tasks, language, examples, scaffolding, feedback, writing expectations—matched to where they're at.

For formative and summative assessment, schools can build tasks in Writer’s Toolbox that match their localised curriculum or unit or classroom needs.  They can assign these to groups in their class or the class as a whole, and individual learning modules on writing skills—already pre-built in Toolbox—can be pushed even to single students. 

Teachers can give feedback on individual pieces of student writing, or download and mark in their own preferred learning management system.

Student progress and improvement is tracked, not only across a range of writing metrics as they write inside Toolbox (available to both them and their teacher), but also as they complete the pre-built Learning Journey for their year level.  Here, students will learn all the respective writing skills for their year through a complete scope and sequence, involving activities, quizzes, video material, comprehension tasks, and summative writing activities—all pre-made for the teacher to use.  

Progress and improvement is tracked on four levels: whole school, year levels, classes, and individual students.  This includes point in time data for a range of key writing skills and metrics, analysis graphs that track progress throughout the year, detailed class analysis pages that can be exported and tracked, and individual snapshot data that students can access within the tool to set targets/goals and identify their own strengths/weaknesses.

All Writer’s Toolbox data is stored securely by Amazon AWS Servers in Sydney, offering Amazon’s industry standard data encryption and data protection and back-up services. 

For our complete privacy policy and other topics around data, see https://www.writerstoolbox.com/privacy-policy

Writer’s Toolbox schools have access to a dedicated School Success Manager to guide them through their journey, answer questions about classroom implementation, and provide expert advice on getting the most out of the programme.

There is also a full-time Support team on hand to answer all the curly technical questions.