Built by a classroom teacher, for classroom teachers

Notice the good.
Watch it grow.

Speak an observation mid-lesson. Echo Garden transcribes it live, logs it to the right student, and grows their garden — automatically.

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Runs entirely offline, on-device — no cloud, no API key, nothing leaves the classroom.

A look at the live workflow — not real student data.

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Say what you notice out loud — “Maya, great job helping your neighbor” — and Echo Garden hears it, echoes it back as a live caption, and logs it against the right student. No tapping through menus mid-lesson, no losing your place in front of the class.

Built for the middle of a lesson

Every part of Echo Garden is designed to stay out of your way until you need it.

Voice-powered engagement

Say what you notice, in plain language, while you're teaching. Echo Garden listens for the moment, echoes it back as a live caption, and logs it — no stopping to hunt through menus or tap through a class list.

Growth and coin economy, kept separate

XP grows each student's garden and reflects the whole arc of their year. Gold is a distinct, ledgered currency for your reward store, so a big spend on prizes never quietly drains the growth you've been tracking.

Behavior targets and quests

Assign a focused growth goal — perseverance, kindness, staying on task — right on a student's profile, then watch progress surface automatically in class highlights as it happens.

From the person who built it

Made by a teacher, out of a very ordinary problem

I’m Yining Sun. I’ve spent the last seven years teaching elementary school in international classrooms — currently at the American School of Ulaanbaatar, and before that at schools in Mongolia and the UK. Most of my students are learning in their second or third language, which means a lot of my day is spent watching closely: who’s following along, who needs the instruction restated with a gesture instead of more words, who just did something quietly kind that deserves to be named out loud.

The problem was never noticing. It was that every system I tried for tracking behavior — clipboards, sticker charts, apps that wanted me to tap through a student list — asked me to look away from my class to use it. I believe kids show up ready to learn when they feel safe to explore, and that requires the teacher’s attention to actually be on them, not on a screen.

Echo Garden is the tool I wanted: I say what I notice, out loud, in the moment it happens, and it does the rest. It grew out of a real classroom, tested in a real classroom, and it’s still shaped by what actually helps a lesson keep moving. I hope it gives you back a little more of the thing that made you want to teach in the first place — time spent looking at your students instead of your desk.