Guidance, not answers.
Sidera coaches students through your curriculum — in your voice, at your pace — and never does the work for them.
Sidera is Latin for the stars — the hidden root of the word consider: con-sidera, “with the stars.” A star gives you your bearing. It never takes the wheel. Neither does Sidera — the student does the work; the star just keeps them oriented.
sī·de·ra · “the sid in con·sid·er”
Sidera asks one question at a time and walks students toward the answer — the way a good teacher does when they’re standing right beside you.
Built from your lessons, your rubric, your words. Students hear their own teacher — not a generic chatbot reading from the internet.
One question at a time. Sidera guides students to the answer and lets them do the thinking. It orients; it doesn’t hand over the work.
Locked to your subject, bounded by the teacher, and built for minors — with student privacy treated as the starting point, not an afterthought.
Sidera started in a photography classroom — but the framework is subject-agnostic. Point it at any curriculum, career-technical or core-academic, and it becomes a tutor for that class. Build it once; run it for every subject you teach.
A digital hall pass that runs on the Chromebooks your school already has. Students sign themselves out; you get a live board and the flags that matter — and every record stays inside your own district.
Sample dashboard — a live view of who’s out, updating in real time.
See every student out of class right now — where they went and how long they’ve been gone — in one always-current glance.
Automatic alerts for out-too-long and out-too-often, so the patterns worth watching surface before they become problems.
Works on any district Chromebook through Google Workspace. No app to install, no new hardware, no servers to run.
Every sign-out lives in your district’s own Google account. No third party, nothing shipped off, nothing to review.
Watch a student get coached through a real assignment, and a hall pass go from one tap to a live dashboard.
Sidera was built inside a real district, under real IT constraints — so the privacy questions your team will ask were the first questions we answered.
Every sign-out record lives in your district’s own Google Workspace. No third-party vendor to vet, nothing shipped off, nothing to review — the data never leaves your control.
No student names or IDs are attached to what the tutor sends. It’s locked to your subject, controlled by the teacher, and never drives a student’s screen — coaching only.
Sidera didn’t start in a boardroom. It was built by a career-and-technical-education teacher for his own students — trained on his lessons, tuned to his rubric, and shaped by what actually helps a student who’s stuck. Every part of it answers one question: does this help a kid learn?
Yes — it’s the first thing we designed for. Sidera Pass keeps every record inside your district’s own Google Workspace; nothing goes to a third party. The Sidera Tutor attaches no student names or IDs to what it sends, stays locked to your subject, and is controlled by the teacher. We built it inside a real district, under real IT rules.
We’re piloting with teachers and districts now, so pricing is a conversation, not a price tag. Both tools run on infrastructure your school already owns, so there’s no expensive stack to pay for. Tell us about your school and we’ll find something that fits your budget.
No. Sidera Pass runs on the Chromebooks and Google Workspace your school already uses — nothing to install. The Tutor is a double-click app. Setup is guided, and we do the heavy lifting with you.
The opposite — that’s the entire point. Sidera coaches one question at a time and walks students toward the answer in their teacher’s own voice. It never hands over the work. Guidance, not answers.
Any of them. Sidera started in a photography classroom, but the framework is subject-agnostic — point it at any curriculum, career-technical or core-academic, and it becomes a tutor for that class.
Piloting the Sidera Tutor and Sidera Pass with teachers and districts now. Tell us about your school — we’ll help you get started.
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