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Socrait was built by a teacher experiencing burnout from the overwhelming mental load educators carry every day. Teachers often manage information for more than 150 students while tracking behavior, adjusting instruction, communicating with parents, and supporting students emotionally, all while trying to teach.
Socrait helps by organizing what teachers are already saying in the classroom. By listening during instruction, it transforms spoken moments into documentation, behavior tracking, reminders, class summaries, and communication drafts, reducing administrative workload and saving teachers valuable time.
As a Public Benefit Corporation, Socrait’s mission is to help keep teachers in the classroom and focused on teaching.
What sets Socrait apart?
Most edtech adds to a teacher’s workload before it reduces it or asks teachers to change how they teach. Socrait works within the natural flow of the classroom. The teacher’s voice becomes the input, transforming spoken moments into behavior notes, reminders, class summaries, MTSS documentation, and parent communication drafts that teachers can review and send in seconds.
The follow-up that once lived in a teacher’s head in the evening gets captured while it’s still fresh. Privacy is foundational: no audio is stored, teachers control their data, and sessions can be deleted at any time. Socrait is FERPA compliant by design and built to work for teachers, never against them.
How does Socrait support educators and center learners?
When teachers stop carrying the cognitive load of remembering everything, they become more present and responsive to students. Praise that once got lost in the end-of-day blur reaches students and families while the moment is still meaningful. Class summaries can quickly be shared with absent students and students with IEPs, helping more learners stay connected and supported.
Socrait also helps teachers recognize patterns that are often missed in a busy classroom, not as surveillance, but as insight. Which students are receiving encouragement? Which students are quietly disengaging? Teachers use the data to provide more proactive, personalized support and ensure fewer students go unnoticed. One teacher shared, “It’s made me more aware of some of my quiet students that I don’t always give praise to.”
Story from the Field
Beehive Science & Technology Academy in Sandy, Utah
The School
Beehive Science & Technology Academy is a STEM-forward charter district in Sandy, Utah, serving 762 students in grades K–12. With families from 48 countries speaking roughly 60 languages, Beehive’s leadership is mission-driven about tools that genuinely help teachers and not add to their load. As the number one high school in Utah for the last five years by U.S. News and World Report, they have an imperative to keep good teachers. When the leadership team evaluated Socrait in spring 2025, their test was simple: Is this another burden, or will it actually help teachers?
By May 2026, 24 teachers had run more than 3,500 sessions. The executive director put it plainly:
“Once we gave the teachers Socrait, they insisted on keeping it. It’s improving behavior, it’s improving communication — it’s changed the focus from the negative to the positive and improved school culture.” — Dr. Hanifi Oguz, Executive Director