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About us

Discover how Nurture became a pedagogically backed formative assessment and feedback platform, empowering teachers and principals to fulfil student potential.

[Book a demo](https://www.gonurture.com/request-demo.md) [Our pedagogy](https://www.gonurture.com/research.md)

![David and Pádraic, founders of jumpAgrade and Nurture](https://www.gonurture.com/images/pages/david-padraic-jumpagrade-2.png)

The beginning David & Pádraic, from jumpAgrade to Nurture

The origin story

## It started with a question of access.

Nurture grew from first-hand experience of how unequal access to educational support limits student potential—and a determination to make personal feedback possible for every learner.

1.  2017

    ### Make support more accessible

    David and Pádraic started jumpAgrade to move extra tuition online, reduce cost and remove the burden of travel.

2.  The shift

    ### Personalise feedback, not privilege

    Seeing inequalities in access changed the question: how could more students receive effective, personal support?

3.  Today

    ### Give every teacher the framework

    The model developed with Learnovate became Nurture: personalised formative feedback at classroom scale.

19%

average grade increase achieved by students supported through jumpAgrade.

A framework proven at scale

## From a social mission to a tool for every classroom.

Working with Learnovate at Trinity College Dublin, the team developed a framework for fast, effective, personalised feedback. Its success with jumpAgrade laid the foundations for Nurture.

What we set out to solve

## Better feedback without asking more from teachers.

Nurture works with tools schools already know, including Microsoft Teams, to make formative practice more sustainable.

### Reduce repetitive marking

Identify common knowledge gaps and reuse high-quality feedback without repeating the same marking task.

### Make reflection count

Help students pause, process and act on feedback—so teachers’ work changes what happens next.

### See progress over time

Give students, teachers and leaders a clearer view of improvement across tasks, classes and schools.

![Professor Dylan Wiliam](https://www.gonurture.com/images/pages/dylan-graphics.webp)

Grounded in pedagogy

> “The only useful feedback is the feedback that’s used by students.”

Professor Dylan Wiliam · Nurture strategic advisor

[Explore our pedagogy →](https://www.gonurture.com/research.md)

How we work

## Principles we actually use.

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### Do meaningful work

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### Barrys > Lyons

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### Customer-first approach

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### Every day’s a school day

Built with good company

## Research-backed. Socially minded. Ready for schools.

Our framework was developed with Learnovate at Trinity College Dublin. jumpAgrade is backed by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland and Rethink Ireland, and Nurture is a certified Microsoft Partner.

[Join our team →](https://www.gonurture.com/careers.md) [Get in touch](https://www.gonurture.com/contact-us.md)