Lesson Debrief.
You can’t watch your own class while you’re teaching it. Lesson Debrief records one period and turns it into something you can actually look at afterward.
Wivoza transcribes the recording and hands back a report on how you taught the content: what worked in your explanations and examples, where they could go further, and where students usually get stuck in this topic. Alongside it, the questions you asked, how the talking was shared, and how your directions sounded. Then you talk it through with your coach and decide what to change. No score, no rating, no one else sees it.
Evidence beats memory
Not because your read on the lesson is wrong, but because you were busy running it. The recording was only listening.
See what you can’t see while teaching
You’re running the room. The recording isn’t.
Trade impressions for evidence
“That explanation landed” — and here are the exact moments that show whether it did.
Find patterns, not verdicts
One lesson is a snapshot. Four start to tell you something.
Get a content coach’s eye
Your examples, models and vocabulary, read the way a specialist in your subject would.
Stop guessing what to work on
Pick one focus metric and watch just that one move.
Get credit for what’s working
The report names a strength before it names anything else.
Walk in prepared
Your own read on your teaching, before anyone else offers theirs.
You are never scored. There’s no grade, no rank, no rating anywhere in the report, and nothing here is visible to your school.
The report is also honest about its own limits. Something it couldn’t measure reliably says so instead of quietly showing a zero, and a short recording is labeled a short excerpt up front — so you know which numbers to lean on.
Good weeks to record
Record once, then take your time
The recording takes a class period and no extra effort. Reading the report is the part worth sitting down for.
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Press Record
A big timer, a Pause button, and a Stop button — that’s the whole screen, with nothing to fill in first. It records in your browser or the iPhone app; nothing extra on your desk.
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Tell it which voice is yours
Wivoza separates the speakers, then shows you a sample line from each and asks which one is the teacher. Everyone else is grouped together as Student. Then the audio is discarded — only the text goes on.
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Read the report
Summary first: one thing to try next lesson, what the lesson covered, an idea for taking the content further, how the lesson moved, and its numbers — talk, pace, questions and checks. Content Specialist reads how you taught the content. Insights holds the detail. My Growth shows the same numbers trending across every session you’ve recorded.
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Talk it through
The Reflect tab is a spoken conversation about what the report found — pick a starting point, or just say what’s on your mind. When you finish, your notes are written from the conversation: what you noticed, what you want to explore, your next step with a date to follow up, and a focus for your next recording.
What’s in the report
- Summary — Your one focus for next lesson, what the lesson covered, how the lesson moved, the lesson’s numbers, one thing to keep doing, and a “Try next time” list you can carry straight into your next plan. Save the whole report as a PDF from here.
- Insights — Four sections when you want the detail: Talk & Participation, Questioning & Checking, Clarity & Content, Climate & Routines — each shown in your own words, with the times you said them.
- Content Specialist — How you taught this content, read the way a specialist in the subject would — what worked and why, where it could go further, each tied to a moment you said. Then where students usually get stuck in this topic, and the move that heads it off.
- Rubric lens — On request, the same lesson sorted under the Danielson rubric, with one next step for each component. Never a level or a score. Below it, the Hard Look, when you want the least generous reading the evidence supports.
- Reflect — A spoken debrief with your coach. When you finish, your notes are written from what you said — edit them, or come back and talk more any time.
- My Growth — The Summary’s numbers — talk time, pace, questions and checks — trended over time. Choose one as your focus and it’s highlighted here and on Summary.
Lesson report · Summary
SampleBiology · Period 3
Tue, Jan 14 · 9th grade · 41:20
Recorded 41:20 · 86% came through as audible speech
Next lesson, try this
Your “what if the cell had no oxygen?” question got students reasoning.
After a student answers, ask one more “why?” before you move on.
Why this › · Choose a different one
Students worked through cell respiration, moving from a modelled example to small-group analysis of what happens when oxygen runs short.
An idea for next time
Follow one glucose molecule through each stage on the board, so students see where the energy actually leaves.
How the lesson moved
Opened with
Recapping photosynthesis
0:00–6:40
Built
Walking through the respiration equation
6:40–18:15
Applied to
Groups predicting a cell short of oxygen
18:15–end
Teacher Talk
62%
Student Talk
18%
Group Talk
9%
Silence
11%
Pace
148wpm
Questions
22
Checks
3
Keep doing
“What would change if the cell had no oxygen at all?” 14:32
Your audio is never saved — it’s transcribed and then discarded. Three recordings a month on the free plan.
Mr. Boateng’s story
A lesson he was proud of, a note he didn’t expect, and a change small enough to keep.
Mr. Boateng is proud of his cellular respiration lesson. He has taught it for nine years, the equation goes up on the board, and students can recite it by the end of the period. He records it expecting the report to confirm what he already believes.
Content Specialist agrees with part of it. His “what if the cell had no oxygen?” question made students predict before he named fermentation — that worked, and the note says why. But the equation went up as one line, and the note at 9:42 suggests tracking a single glucose molecule through each stage, so students can see where the energy actually leaves.
His first reaction is to argue with it: the students knew the equation. Which is true, and it’s also the point — knowing the equation isn’t the same as knowing where the energy goes.
In the Reflect tab he says exactly that out loud. Coach asks what a student would say if he asked where the energy goes. He doesn’t love the answer: probably “into the ATP,” with no idea how.
His next step is small enough to actually do: one glucose molecule, followed on the board through glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain. He carries it into Planning Coach for next year’s unit, and tries it with a different section on Thursday.
The Thursday recording isn’t a transformation. But the “What worked” note now names the glucose walk-through, students’ questions are about the stages rather than the formula, and My Growth shows more of his questions going beyond recall.
Arguing with the report is a normal first reaction, and often the useful one — it’s usually where the real conversation starts.
Record an ordinary Tuesday
Not your showcase lesson. A normal day tells you far more, and there’s nothing to prepare.
Twenty minutes is plenty
You don’t need a whole period. A short recording is labeled as an excerpt so you read it accordingly.
Start with Summary
Read that tab and stop. Insights will still be there when you want the detail.
Pick one focus
One metric, tracked across sessions. Ten at once is how a report becomes wallpaper.
It stays yours: set how long recordings are kept in Profile & Settings, print or save a report, or delete it outright.
Come back after you’ve tried it
The report is evidence. The debrief is what you did about it — and that’s the part that actually changes a classroom.
Lesson Debrief has two reflection moments, and they do different jobs. The Reflect tab happens right after the lesson, while the evidence is in front of you. This debrief happens later — after you’ve taught with the change and found out whether it worked.
Five questions, that’s all
- What did you try?
- What happened?
- What seemed to help?
- What would you adjust next time?
- What’s your next step?
What you get back
A short summary
What you learned, in a few lines you can actually reread.
One honest observation
Something you did well — named specifically, not flattered.
One practical next step
The single thing worth carrying into the next recording.
Then it’s your call
Continue This Conversation
Keep talking if the debrief opened something up.
Set a Next Step
Write down the one thing you’re committing to.
Save My Reflection
Keep it to come back to before your next recording.
Start a New Talk It Through
Begin fresh on something else.
One period. One thing worth changing.
You already know your teaching. This just shows you the part you were too busy to watch.
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