Case Study: Dr. Martha Mead Elementary achieves student-led learning and higher engagement with Explain Everything

Explain Everything gives a teacher the tools to transform her educational model

Dr. Martha Mead Elementary in San Antonio used the Explain Everything app to address a persistent engagement problem: students were inattentive during teacher-led demonstrations and focused only on finished products rather than the learning process. Teacher Cruz N. Ramirez sought a way to capture tech-oriented learners’ attention and reduce direct instruction time without losing essential art methods.

By adopting Explain Everything and iPad mirroring, Ramirez shifted to student-led lessons where classmates take turns teaching while she guides and records their work. Explain Everything enabled classroom-wide recording, replay, and integrated lesson projects (videos, examples, student comments), which increased student focus, communication skills, confidence, and leadership; it also made lessons easy to print or share with administrators and colleagues. Explain Everything thus transformed instruction and boosted measurable classroom engagement and student ownership.

Dr. Martha Mead Elementary

Cruz N. Ramirez

Dr. Martha Mead Elementary