They required a scalable solution that was reliable even in low wifi environments:

• Capturing meaningful SEL insights from students.
• Providing instant, clear feedback to teachers.
• Supporting educators across different cultures and difficult environments.

Milgo’s Tailored Solution: Cross-Cultural SEE Learning Insight Tool

‍Milgo collaborated with Emory’s SEE Learning team, leveraging their extensive expertise in SEL, to deliver a carefully tailored assessment solution:

• Custom-built digital questionnaires aligned closely with SEE Learning’s global SEL curriculum, delivered to over 1000 students in India and Colombia.
• AI-powered instant narrative-driven insights ("Stories"), bridging gaps between student perspectives and teacher perceptions.
• Ease-of-use and accessibility, ensuring seamless adoption in rural, underserved, and challenging environments.
• Multilingual capabilities, reaching diverse student populations effectively.

Strategic Support and Effective Deployment

During two significant pilot phases (in April and August 2024), Milgo’s platform was successfully rolled out across 20 schools - each serving some of the most disadvantaged communities in Jhunujhunu and Tuluá. The SEE Learning-trained teachers seamlessly integrated Milgo into their classrooms, appreciating the platform’s straightforwardness and the immediate insights gained from students.

Transformational Results

‍The pilots in Rajasthan and Tuluá demonstrated the Milgo-powered SEE Learning Insight tool’s profound ability to enhance SEL education and significantly improve the overall teaching and learning experience:

• Insights Provide Enhanced Awareness and Improve Learning:
  Teachers reported that Milgo’s insights significantly narrowed their "perception gap," clearly showing differences between what teachers thought students understood and actual student comprehension. Additionally, 69% of teachers believed the tool improved the quality of their students’ learning.
  
  
• Positive Teacher Experiences and SEL Impact:
  Educators overwhelmingly rated the platform positively, with 92% of teachers rating their experience as a 4 or 5 (out of 5). Teachers affirmed that Milgo directly improved student engagement, teacher effectiveness, and classroom discussions around SEL. Teachers noted ease of use and improved ability to address students’ emotional and learning needs.
  
  
• Student Engagement and Enjoyment:
  Students embraced Milgo positively, appreciating the opportunity to openly express themselves, with over 71% agreeing that the tool made learning experiences more enjoyable. The tool significantly contributed to creating a safe and responsive learning environment, fostering meaningful interactions between students and teachers.

• Cross-cultural Adaptation and Scalability:
  Milgo proved highly adaptable and effective in rural towns in India and Colombia, demonstrating its universal potential in enhancing SEL education across highly diverse and challenging global contexts.
  
  

They needed a solution that was:

• Easy to adopt, without requiring extensive training.
• Capable of handling large class sizes efficiently.
• Functional even in low-connectivity environments.

Milgo’s Tailored Solution: Lightweight, Adaptive, AI-Powered

‍In partnership with T-TEL (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning) and Google Research, Milgo delivered a highly adaptive AI-driven assessment solution designed specifically for Ghanaian classrooms:

• Simple, lightweight digital assessments accessible via tablets distributed nationally by the Ministry.
• AI-powered instant feedback and automated grading, significantly reducing the teacher workload.
• Personalized narrative-driven reports ("Stories") providing clear and immediate insights into student performance, empowering both teachers and students.
• A responsive, mobile-friendly design, essential for schools in rural and urban areas alike.

Hands-On Training and Immediate Adoption

‍Milgo’s dedicated team actively facilitated adoption through intensive onsite training, daily teacher workshops, and user-focused webinars. Each pilot day began with brief, targeted training sessions and concluded with data reflection meetings, ensuring educators fully grasped the tool’s benefits and capabilities.

Transformational Results

‍The pilot had an immediate, tangible impact, dramatically shifting how assessments were conducted in Ghanaian high schools:

• Widespread and Rapid Adoption:
  Over four days, 3,526 learners across seven schools completed digital literacy assessments—many using digital devices for the first time ever. Teachers embraced the tool enthusiastically, reflecting pride in being among Ghana’s educational pioneers in AI-powered assessments.
  
  
• Reduced Workload, Increased Efficiency:
  Milgo’s AI assessment significantly decreased grading time, allowing teachers to redirect efforts toward more personalized student support. 82% of teachers preferred Milgo’s automated grading to traditional manual methods, with 65% felt that AI assessments saved them time, while 75% found similarity between AI generated grades and their own grades.
  
  
• Enhanced Inclusivity and Accessibility:
  Despite significant connectivity challenges, Milgo effectively reached both rural and urban schools, ensuring equitable educational opportunities. Special attention was given to inclusivity, including dedicated engagement with a school for deaf students, highlighting Milgo’s adaptability.
  
  

Student Engagement and Empowerment:

‍Students overwhelmingly appreciated the instant, personalized feedback provided by Milgo, typically unavailable through traditional methods. They valued the opportunity to interact digitally, with many expressing excitement and newfound enthusiasm for learning.

They needed a solution that was:

• Scalable across thousands of classrooms.
• Inclusive and accessible, serving diverse communities and languages.
• User-friendly, to ensure teachers and students could easily adopt the new digital assessments.
• Reliable, integrating advanced AI to provide consistent and quick results.

Milgo’s Tailored Solution: AI-Powered Insights & Simplicity at Scale

RAMA partnered with Milgo to tailor and deploy its intuitive digital assessment solution specifically for Israel’s educational landscape. The platform offered:

• AI-powered assessments tailored for literacy in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, providing immediate, reliable scoring and feedback.
• Simplified accessibility through One-Time Password (OTP) access, removing complex login barriers.
• Mobile-friendly exams, allowing students to participate anywhere, anytime, regardless of classroom infrastructure.
• Instant, narrative-based insights (“Stories”), providing clear, actionable feedback for teachers as well as students, enhance teaching strategies and the learning process as a whole - all without needing extensive data analysis.

Rapid Deployment, Immediate Adoption

In partnership with RAMA, Milgo rapidly rolled out its platform to thousands of students and teachers nationwide. Within less than a month, the platform was successfully deployed, marking a significant shift from traditional print assessments to modern digital tools.

Transformational Results

The collaboration between RAMA and Milgo delivered immediate and sustained improvements across Israel’s educational landscape, impacting over 110,000 students across more than 4,500 classrooms. Educators quickly embraced the platform, with half becoming regular users, demonstrating trust in Milgo’s effectiveness and ease-of-use.

• Inclusive Reach:
  Remarkably, nearly half (45%) of all assessments were conducted in Arabic, reflecting Milgo’s success in reaching and supporting diverse linguistic and cultural communities. Additionally, more than 20% of students accessed assessments on mobile devices, significantly enhancing accessibility for students in schools with limited technology infrastructure.
  
  
• AI-Powered Accuracy:
  With Milgo’s AI-driven assessments, a quarter of all exams featured automated writing evaluations. Teachers overwhelmingly trusted the platform, with 67% expressing confidence in the reliability and consistency of AI-generated feedback, enabling them to make informed instructional decisions with confidence.
  
  
• Teacher Efficiency and Satisfaction:
  The shift from traditional paper-based exams to Milgo’s digital assessments proved not only smoother but significantly more efficient for educators. Two-thirds of teachers reported saving between half a day to a full day’s worth of work per assessment cycle. With an impressive Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 47%—considered ‘very good’ in the education technology sector—teachers validated Milgo’s positive impact in their classrooms.
  
  

Through these results, RAMA successfully transitioned to a scalable, accessible, and highly efficient digital assessment system—transforming a complex challenge into an opportunity for real educational advancement.

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The challenge set for Milgo was ambitious:

• Improve students' self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, school engagement, academic grades, and self-concept in science.
• Provide rigorous, measurable evidence of impact through a controlled experimental study.

Milgo’s Tailored Solution: SEL Meets AI-Powered Assessments

‍The team from Reichman University partnered with Milgo to tailor its AI-powered assessment tool, creating a student-friendly iteration specifically for 7th-grade science classrooms and rooted in validated SEL measurement frameworks. The solution provided:

• Regular assessments enabling students to reflect on their social-emotional competencies and academic engagement throughout the school year.
• Implementation across randomly selected classrooms in the test country (Israel), with assessments conducted at multiple intervals (October, January, and May) to track progress effectively.
• Clear, actionable insights delivered through intuitive narratives (“Stories”), empowering students and teachers to identify and support SEL and academic development.

A Rigorous Approach

‍Throughout the 2022–2023 academic year, six teachers implemented Milgo’s assessments with 126 students fully completing the evaluation cycle. A control group maintained standard classroom practices, providing a robust benchmark to gauge Milgo’s effectiveness.

Transformational Results

‍Students engaging with Milgo showed remarkable improvements across key SEL and academic indicators, consistently outperforming peers in the control group.

• Improved Academic and Emotional Engagement:
  Unlike peers in the control group, who saw declines in academic engagement and performance over the year, students using Milgo demonstrated increased engagement and bettered their science grades. Milgo effectively reversed a downward trend, making students more invested in their education.

• Student Approval and Comfort:
  More than half (55%) of students would recommend Milgo to peers, highlighting the ease of progressing at their own pace and the comfort provided by the option to answer anonymously. Students emphasized that Milgo made them feel respected and understood.
  
  

Enhanced Classroom Dynamics:

‍Teachers reported significant improvements in classroom environments, noting Milgo brought calmness, clarity, and structure. The ease of using the platform allowed teachers to focus more on personalized instruction, significantly enhancing their teaching experience.

Milgo’s Tailored Solution: The Emotional Check-In Tool

The National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education in Israel, partnered with Milgo to tailor their intuitive, AI-powered emotional check-in tool. The  tool was quickly deployed, featuring:

• Customized questionnaires for students (grades 4–12), teachers, parents, principals, and counselors, thoughtfully aligned with SHEFI’s psychological frameworks.
• Inclusive assessments in Hebrew and Arabic to ensure broad community reach.
• Clear, narrative-based insights ("Stories") at the school level, enabling staff to quickly understand emotional trends and act immediately.
• Mobile-friendly accessibility, essential for ensuring participation across varying levels of infrastructure, especially in crisis-affected areas.

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Swift and Widespread Adoption

‍The rapid implementation and seamless integration of the emotional check-in tool into SHEFI’s existing counseling network was heavily supported and enhanced by Milgo's hands-on approach to implementation. 

Milgo’s dedicated team played a crucial role in driving widespread user adoption, offering comprehensive support through a combination of interactive webinars, personalized training sessions, and in-person workshops. This proactive engagement ensured educators, counselors, and administrators fully understood and embraced the platform quickly.

By directly supporting schools during the critical launch period, Milgo facilitated immediate, effective utilization of the emotional assessment tools. The result was a streamlined adoption process that quickly equipped educators across Israel’s education system with essential emotional insights, enabling timely and targeted interventions for their school communities. 

Milgo in Action

Itzik Shahar, the principal of the Herzog Comprehensive School at the Branco Weiss Institute was already familiar with Milgo. “I started using Milgo because it is a system that allows me to make data-based managerial decisions with a high degree of flexibility.” 

The school began using Milgo’s tailored emotional check-in tool immediately after the war began, and it very quickly proved its value. With data from the teachers’ questionnaire results, the tool pointed Principal Shahar in the right direction. 

“There was one teacher that Milgo highlighted with a red asterisk. So I approached her in the teacher’s lounge, where my question of “how are you?” immediately broke her down crying.”

This was an opportunity for Principal Shahar to help the teacher get the support she needed. When she came back to work a few days later, she thanked him for recognizing the state she was in. “I told her, to be honest, it was Milgo that gave me the indication. That’s really when it hit me… the impact it was making.”

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Transformational Results

‍The collaboration between SHEFI, RAMA, and Milgo profoundly enhanced emotional resilience and support in Israeli schools, reaching more than 136,000 students in over 6,200 classrooms.

• Empowering Open Communication and Effective Interventions:
  Half of teachers directly shared Milgo’s emotional reports ("Stories") with students, creating critical conversations around emotional well-being. Furthermore, 78% shared insights with school counselors, directly supporting targeted, timely interventions across diverse communities.
  
  
• Outstanding Educator Approval and Efficiency:
  Educators rated Milgo exceptionally high, with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 60%, regarded as "excellent" by EdTech standards. Principals and counselors praised the intuitive design and straightforward insights, noting significant improvements in their ability to identify emotional blind spots quickly and efficiently.
  
  

Saves Time and Easy to Use:

‍Counselors and educational staff testified that the insights helped save time and sharpen their understanding of the emotional landscape in their schools.

Additionally, 76% of teachers indicated their willingness to continue using the solution, underscoring Milgo’s relevance and ease of use.