Published in WISE Insights
Student Wellbeing After Disruption: Here Is What the Arab World Reveals.
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10+ education systems
250K+ students represented
Built on OECD, UNESCO, IB & CASEL
Our Impact
BuzzGage in Numbers
10+
Education Systems
Deployed across school systems serving diverse curricula, communities, and learning environments — from national ministries to international school groups.
250K+
Students Represented
Based on anonymised student voice data collected across BuzzGage deployments to date.
120+
Validated Indicators
Covering wellbeing, engagement, social-emotional development, leadership, and whole-child growth.
Why Education Leaders Choose BuzzGage
Lead With Confidence.
Back It With Evidence.
School and education systems leaders are accountable for student outcomes they can't always see. BuzzGage makes those outcomes visible, measurable, and ready to act on.
Prove What’s Working
Benchmark student experience across schools, clusters, and systems against globally recognised standards.
Catch What You’re Missing
Surface unseen barriers to learning, belonging, and development before they escalate.
Drive Improvement
Use framework-based insights to inform planning, professional development, and system-wide priorities.
How It Works
Evidence-Based Insights That Drive Improvement at Every Level
Listen
At school, cluster, or system scale
Structured data collection captures how students experience learning, belonging, and development -- at school, cluster, or system level.
Interpret
Mapped to internationally recognised frameworks
BuzzGage maps student voice to internationally recognized frameworks surfacing what indicators and system priorities matter most.
Act
Drive Schoolwide Change
Leaders at every level receive actionable insight to guide decisions -- from classroom support to national policy.
Who We Serve
Built for systems. Deployed at scale.
BuzzGage is procured by institutions that hold responsibility for student outcomes across multiple schools and deployed through the systems, networks, and programs they run.
Education Systems
PRIMARY
Ministries, departments, and school groups
National and regional bodies that set curriculum standards, manage school networks, and are accountable for student outcomes at scale. A single system-level agreement with BuzzGage activates measurement across every school in the network — with consolidated reporting for leadership and school-level insights for practitioners.
Ministries of Education
International school groups
Departments of Education
Regional school authorities
School groups & networks
Global Enablers & Program Partners
PARTNER
Foundations, NGOs, international programs
International organisations that run education programs across multiple countries and need a consistent, evidence-based way to measure student experience and wellbeing outcomes.
HOW BUZZGAGE HELPS
Provides a shared measurement layer across geographies, enabling program-level reporting, cross-country benchmarking, and evidence of impact for funders and partners.
INCLUDES
International foundations
Bilateral aid programs
Education-focused NGOs
UN agency programs
Student Networks & Youth Communities
NETWORK
Youth networks, student associations
Global and regional youth networks that serve students across institutional boundaries — and are positioned to carry student voice measurement into communities that system-level procurement doesn't always reach.
HOW BUZZGAGE HELPS
Gives networks a structured, evidence-based channel to understand what students in their communities are actually experiencing — and advocate for change on that basis.
INCLUDES
Regional youth associations
Student unions
Schools are where BuzzGage is experienced — not where procurement begins.
Once a system or network agreement is in place, BuzzGage activates at school level automatically. School leaders receive their own dashboards and actionable insights — without needing a separate procurement process.
IB World Schools
Global citizenship schools
International & private schools
Public & national curriculum schools
Where we operate
Built for the contexts that matter most
BuzzGage develops context-specific frameworks for education systems navigating disruptions.
ARAB WORLD
Post-Crisis Student Wellbeing Framework
A region-first framework helping schools and education systems understand and respond to student wellbeing after crisis.
What Guides Our Approach
Built on Trusted Frameworks
BuzzGage's measurement architecture is not a single framework applied universally. It is a layered system where internationally recognised frameworks define what we measure, interpretive lenses shape how we read what we find, and response frameworks determine what schools and systems do next.
01 - DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONS
The globally recognised frameworks that define what BuzzGage measures. The constructs, competencies, and conditions that determine whether students are developing, belonging, and engaging.
CASEL 5
SEL
Social-emotional learning
GROUNDED IN
Student agency, transformative competencies, and the capacity to navigate uncertainty. Core to how BuzzGage frames student engagement and leadership.
Engagement
Leadership
IB Approaches to Learning
IB
ATL skill categories
GROUNDED IN
Transferable skill categories, including thinking, communication, research, self-management, and social skills, track how learning skills are explicitly taught, practiced, and reflected on, distinct from dispositional development.
Engagement
Leadership
OECD Learning Compass 2030
OECD
Future-ready competencies
GROUNDED IN
Learner agency, co-agency, and future readiness, covering how students navigate complexity and take purposeful ownership of their learning across school and life contexts.
Wellbeing
Leadership
ASCD Whole Child
ASCD
Whole child development
GROUNDED IN
The conditions schools are responsible for making visible: safety, support, challenge, health, and engagement as school-level obligations, not just student traits to be measured.
Engagement
Wellbeing
IB Learner Profile
IB
International Baccalaureate
GROUNDED IN
Ten shared learner attributes, the dispositions, values, and habits an IB school cultivates across PYP, MYP, DP, and CP, expressed as a learning community rather than individual performance.
Engagement
Wellbeing
UNESCO GCED
UN
Global citizenship & SDGs
GROUNDED IN
Intercultural understanding, ethical responsibility, and civic participation, applied when measurement extends beyond personal development into societal connectedness and global awareness.
Engagement
Wellbeing
02 - INTERPRETIVE & EQUITY LENSES
Frameworks that shape how BuzzGage reads what the data reveals, ensuring that scores are understood through the right lens before a response is determined.
UChicago Cultivate
UC
School climate & relational conditions
LENS APPLIED WHEN
A driver like belonging is shaped primarily by students' lived experience of their environment, including trust, climate, and relational conditions, rather than individual disposition alone.
Engagement
Leadership
Culturally Responsive Teaching
CRT
Equity & representation
LENS APPLIED WHEN
A driver is shaped by inclusion, representation, voice, and cultural affirmation, checking that outcomes are not read as neutral averages when equity is the underlying variable.
Wellbeing
Leadership
Trauma-Informed Practices
TIP
Safety, regulation & stress load
LENS APPLIED WHEN
Low scores may signal unmet safety needs rather than a deficit in motivation or capability, reframing struggle through predictability, regulation, and stress load before a response is designed.
Engagement
Wellbeing
03 - RESPONSE ARCHITECTURE
Frameworks that shape how BuzzGage reads what the data reveals, ensuring that scores are understood through the right lens before a response is determined.
MTSS — Multi-Tiered System of Supports
MTSS
School climate & relational conditions
ROLE IN BUZZGAGE
Matching support intensity to need across universal, targeted, and intensive tiers, used to determine escalation pathways from BuzzGage data, not just to describe that a problem exists.
Engagement
Leadership
PBIS — Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports
CRT
Equity & representation
ROLE IN BUZZGAGE
A school-wide behavioral systems lens for expectations, routines, consistency, and reinforcement, prevention-oriented rather than reactive, informing how BuzzGage findings connect to existing behavioral support structures.
Wellbeing
Leadership
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Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) — BuzzGage's evidence and measurement approach is also aligned with the UK's Ofsted EIF (renewed September 2025, effective November 2025), supporting schools and trusts operating within England's inspection regime. This alignment is context-specific to UK deployments and separate from the core framework architecture above.
Evaluating BuzzGage against a specific national curriculum, inspection framework, or regional standard? Get in touch
United Nations SDGs
Aligned to the Global Education Agenda
BuzzGage generates evidence that helps education systems demonstrate progress against global commitments -- supporting SDG-aligned reporting on wellbeing, equity, and quality learning.
SDG 4 – Quality Education
Direct Alignment
BuzzGage’s Role
Enhances quality and equity by providing data-driven insights that guide inclusive teaching and learning.
SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
Direct Alignment
BuzzGage’s Role
Measures wellbeing and belonging, helping schools strengthen emotional and social support systems.
SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities
Direct Alignment
BuzzGage’s Role
Identifies barriers to belonging and inclusion, ensuring every learner’s voice is heard.
Evidence in Practice
What Changes When Schools Use BuzzGage
Internal evaluations from schools using BuzzGage, with shareable methodology. We document what changed, how it was measured, and what the data can and cannot claim.
These are internal evaluations with shareable methodology. They do not claim peer-reviewed evidence or conclusive causal attribution. We publish them because honest documentation of what changed, how it was measured, and what the data cannot claim is more useful than silence.
Featured Research
Published thinking from our team
Our work on student voice intelligence is shaped by, and contributes to, the research conversations driving education globally.
WISE INSIGHTS · June 2026
Student Wellbeing After Disruption: What the Arab World Reveals
By Mohammed Chehab, Founder & Managing Director of BuzzGage
More than 52 million school-age children across the Arab World have faced education disruption in recent years. This piece argues that most measurement frameworks were built for stable, Western contexts — and that recovery requires a different kind of evidence system, one built from the lived conditions students are actually facing rather than assumptions carried over from elsewhere. It introduces a six-construct framework developed through BuzzGage's work in crisis-affected school environments.
Post-Crisis Wellbeing Framework
Arab World
Our Partners
Backed by Leading Organizations
Our partners and supporters across the global EdTech ecosystem
Research & Academic Partners
UCL Centre for Digital Innovation
London, United Kingdom
An evidence-led innovation centre at University College London, focused on impact-driven solutions for education and social systems.
UCL EdTech Labs
London, United Kingdom
UCL's dedicated EdTech research and development lab, supporting the validation and scale of evidence-based tools for learning environments.
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Türkiye
Istanbul Technical University's leading technology accelerator, supporting ventures in AI, education, and deep tech across Türkiye and the region.
Innovation & Accelerator Ecosystem
Qatar Science & Technology Park
Doha, Qatar
Qatar Foundation's flagship innovation hub, incubating high-potential ventures in education, AI, and health across the Gulf region.
DOHE Group
London, United Kingdom
London-based EdTech champion connecting high-potential ventures with global education leaders, schools, systems, and partners through its Go-Together accelerator.
ReimaginED Collective
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A thesis-driven, founder-focused venture studio dedicated to building and scaling EdTech ventures that solve real-world challenges.
Data Security & Privacy
Globally Compliant, Secure by Design.
BuzzGage operates in full compliance with international and education-specific data protection laws, including GDPR, FERPA, COPPA, and PPRA.
Testimonials
What Education Leaders Are Saying
Sajida Daud
Director of Learning Year and Transition Specialist
London-based State Secondary School
"BuzzGage gave us a fresh perspective on how students are experiencing school. Even at the pilot stage, the insights were thought-provoking and that’s why we’re excited to deepen our work with them next year."
Our Vision & Mission
Vision
To reimagine education so that schools see every student beyond academic scores -- with agency, wellbeing, and human potential at the centre of how they measure, grow, and improve.
Mission
BuzzGage gives education leaders a clear, evidence-based picture of how students are doing -- and what to do about it. Built on trusted frameworks and student voice, it makes engagement, wellbeing, and social-emotional development measurable at the school and system level.
Founding Team
Built at the intersection of education research, AI, and systems strategy with a shared conviction that student voice should drive how schools and education systems improve.
Co-Founder
Mohammed Chehab
Istanbul, Türkiye
Mohammed brings a cross-sector background in AI, technology, and systems change to the challenge of making student voice visible and actionable for schools and education systems. He leads BuzzGage's strategic direction, product positioning, and partnership development.
Go-To-Market Advisor
Stuart Mills
London, United Kingdom
Stuart is a former Salesforce VP and innovation leader with deep expertise in organizational growth, enterprise scaling, and resilience. He has advised BuzzGage on growth strategy and scalability, bringing enterprise-level perspective to how the platform reaches schools and education systems at scale.
Co-Founder
Nihan Serra Güngör
Istanbul, Türkiye
Nihan Serra Güngör brings over a decade of psychometric and behavioural science research experience, specialising in translating complex measurement theory into frameworks that education systems can implement at scale. Her work grounds BuzzGage's construct design in measurement science rather than practitioner assumption.
Co-Founder
Hala Haj Sleiman
San Francisco, USA
Hala brought nine years of experience in international education to BuzzGage's founding, with deep expertise in IB philosophy, curriculum design, and inquiry-based learning. Her work grounded BuzzGage's framework in global educational standards from the outset.