CheckIT Learning

For years, educators have been overwhelmed by digital tools promising to simplify teaching and boost efficiency. Yet in classrooms, the reality has been the opposite. Teachers juggle platforms that add complexity, and students grow increasingly disengaged, uncertain why they are learning or how it connects to their goals.

The rise of generative AI only heightened these problems. Instead of solving core issues, it created new ones. Teachers feared being replaced, students used AI to bypass real learning, and schools slipped into a cycle of AI producing assignments, completing them, and grading them, with little actual learning occurring.

Amid this confusion, a different idea emerged: what if the true opportunity was not more content, but helping students understand themselves as learners? What if technology could finally support the agency, purpose, and cognitive skills the education system has long struggled to cultivate?

These questions guided former teacher Myriam Da Silva, who saw how disconnected students felt and how overwhelmed teachers had become. She realized the missing piece was not better automation but a deeper understanding of how the brain learns and a way to bring that science into everyday classroom practice.

This was the realization that helped CheckIT Learning take shape.

Founded by technologists Sava Opacic and Srdjan Perovic and later led by Da Silva as CEO, the company was built on a simple but radical premise: meaningful learning begins with neuroscience. The team believed that AI could be valuable in education only if it served as a vehicle for applying what cognitive science already knows about how the brain learns. Instead of adding to the noise of digital tools, CheckIT LMS uses AI to translate neuroscience into practical guidance that teachers and students can use every day.

We’re not just a product. We’re not just a company. We’re a movement. We need to redefine what success means in education. We’re watching student disengagement rise, mental health decline, and educators leave the profession in record numbers. It’s time to redesign education.

By embedding research on attention, memory, motivation, and metacognition into its AI systems, the company ensures that technology reinforces how the brain naturally processes information. The platform helps students build confidence, agency, and effective study skills, while giving teachers support that reflects real cognitive principles rather than generic automation.

This is the lens through which CheckIT LMS approaches every feature it builds. Its use of responsible AI is not intended to replace educators but to amplify the science of learning in ways that help both teachers and students thrive.

“We are the only ones that actually pair our learning management system with an AI that is trained in neuro education,” says Da Silva.

Helping Students Consolidate Learning

Da Silva’s perspective shaped the development of a cutting-edge new solution called Cleo, CheckIT Learning’s AI neuro-mentor. Cleo can not only generate assignments for students and write lessons for teachers but also embed cognitive strategies and recognize cognitive patterns, attention dynamics, memory processes, and motivational factors that influence learning.

Da Silva’s experiences as an educator convinced her that when students understand how their brains work, they unlock a sense of possibility that often goes untapped in traditional classrooms. She saw students internalize the mistaken belief that learning ability is fixed, when in reality their brains are capable of remarkable growth. She wanted to build a platform that would help them see that learning is not something that happens to them but something they can master.

Cleo brings this philosophy into everyday instructional practice. The platform’s design begins with a simple but often overlooked reality: attention is the gateway to memory. Da Silva has long emphasized that students start a class at their peak level of attention, then experience a natural dip, and end with a rebound. Yet many instructional routines place the most important material in the middle, when attention is at its lowest. Cleo reframes that structure. It creates lessons plans that introduce core concepts when attention is strongest, integrate intentional re-engagement moments before presenting new information, and close with prompts that help students consolidate what they have learned.

As Da Silva observes, “We all tend to start class with homework checks or quick logistics, it’s part of the rhythm of school. But that rhythm often lands our most important teaching moments after students’ attention peak has already passed. That simple awareness gives us a tremendous opportunity to teach differently.”

Fostering Intrinsic Motivation

Teachers who use the platform often describe the experience not as handing their work to technology but as gaining a partner. Cleo offers real-time guidance as they plan lessons, suggesting ways to incorporate retrieval practice, spaced learning, or assess prior knowledge into the flow of instruction. For early-career educators, this support can be transformative.

One second-year teacher used the platform to automate his spaced-repetition activities, a process he once found overwhelming. The system handled the knowledge to be revisited and the duration & variation between retrieval activities, allowing him more time to provide timely and effective feedback to his students. For him, the platform became a bridge between theory and practice, linking the science of learning to the daily realities of teaching.

Yet CheckIT Learning’s ambitions extend far beyond easing workload. The company’s deeper mission centers on helping students build confidence, agency, and a sense of purpose. Da Silva observed that many students fall into familiar but ineffective study habits, believing repetition is the same as retention. Others struggle to see the relevance of what they are learning, leading to disengagement that can persist for years.

Cleo responds by guiding students through reflective prompts that help them identify what motivates them, what interests them, and how their learning connects to the person they are becoming. The platform offers study strategies that encourage learners to test approaches, evaluate their effectiveness, and adapt with intention.

This emphasis on purpose is one of the company’s most distinctive features. Students often describe a shift from simply completing assignments to understanding why their learning matters. By helping them articulate their values and envision the future they want to build, Cleo fosters a form of intrinsic motivation that no external reward can replicate. Da Silva believes this shift toward agency, purpose, and understanding is essential for preparing students to navigate an unpredictable world.

Commitment to Responsible AI

Equally central to CheckIT Learning’s identity is its commitment to responsible AI. The company was part of the first cohort to earn Digital Promise’s Certification for Responsible AI, a recognition that reflects years of work to build ethical and developmentally appropriate tools. Da Silva has spoken widely about the risks of unregulated educational AI, including biased algorithms, data misuse, and the subtle erosion of students’ independence when systems automate their thinking.

For CheckIT Learning, these concerns are not theoretical. They inform every design decision, from how data is stored to how suggestions are delivered. The company increasingly supports global organizations advocating for AI ethics, particularly those working with early-stage startups that may lack guidance on building safe and thoughtful products.

Da Silva summarizes her stance in a single insight that reflects her broader vision: “Education is not about content; it’s about human development—how our students think, create with purpose, grow, and contribute.”

Grounded in Real Classroom Needs

Looking ahead, the company is focused on expanding its footprint and deepening its research partnerships. CheckIT Learning is currently collaborating with neuroscientists, school psychologists, and psychometricians to develop a new framework for measuring student growth, one that moves beyond narrow test scores. Their work centers on learning growth indicators: the human capacities, skills, and mindsets that shape how students adapt, collaborate, reflect, and persist. These indicators capture learning as a developmental process rather than a snapshot of knowledge and skills. They reflect the company’s belief that what students know matters less than how they grow.

As CheckIT Learning builds toward this future, it remains committed to keeping its tools accessible and grounded in real classroom needs. Teachers who have adopted the platform often describe cultural shifts more than technological ones. The platform allows for greater self-efficacy in teacher (confidence) and for schools leaders it ensures instructional quality and consistency across all teachers. Students demonstrate greater resilience and clearer self-understanding. The rhythm of learning becomes aligned with the brain’s natural patterns instead of working against them.

The company is also offering tools that help caregivers support learning at home, making brain-based strategies a shared language across environments. The long-term goal is bold: to make cognitive literacy as fundamental as reading or mathematics.

Advancing a Vision of Learning

Through all these efforts, one throughline remains constant. CheckIT Learning is committed to helping students understand their minds so they can shape their futures. The company views neuroscience not as a trend but as a foundation for rethinking how education can nurture curiosity, agency, and purpose.

That philosophy is expressed across every facet of the platform and echoes a final reflection Da Silva shares: “We’re not just a product. We’re not just a company. We’re a movement. We need to redefine what success means in education. We’re watching student disengagement rise, mental health decline, and educators leave the profession in record numbers. It’s time to redesign education.” This belief also shapes her forthcoming 2026 book, The Black Sheep, which calls for an education model grounded in human development and designed to help students live lives of meaning, connection, and purpose.

This movement continues to grow as CheckIT Learning works with researchers, educators, and communities to advance a vision of learning that is more humane, more intentional, and more aligned with who students are becoming. Its mission is both ambitious and grounded in everyday practice. By integrating science with design and technology with humanity, the company seeks to transform classrooms into places where students feel seen, supported, and capable of shaping their own futures everywhere.