Interaction counts are always visible on every seat so you can see distribution at a glance. When you want the system to decide who comes next, tap the raised hand icon — Trellis surfaces the least-reached student automatically, opens their window, and you're back to teaching in five seconds.
What you're seeing on every seat
The Problem It Solves
Under instructional load, teachers consistently interact with the same 20–30% of students — not from bias, but because those students signal availability through raised hands and eye contact. The rest wait, unseen, for an invitation that may never come.
Two layers. One system.
Equity in Trellis works at two levels — both built into the seating chart you're already looking at during every lesson.
Every seat in your classroom view displays the current interaction count for that student — visible at all times, without tapping anything. Scan the room and you can immediately see who has a high count and who has been missed. Low counts stand out. You don't need a report to know where the gaps are.
When you want the system to choose who comes next, tap the raised hand icon. Trellis reads the interaction counts already on your screen, identifies the student with the fewest, and opens their participation window directly. One tap. No deliberation. The instruction is still entirely yours — Trellis just decided who it's for.
What's on every seat
Every student seat in the seating chart shows two things: their name, and a count badge showing how many interactions have been documented for them. The count badge is color-matched to their performance level — green seats show green counts, orange seats show orange counts — making the combination of academic status and engagement distribution readable in a single glance across the whole room.
How It Works
The equity selector has one job: make equitable reach effortless, without adding cognitive load to a teacher already managing 25 students and a lesson.
Designed with care
There's a deliberate distinction in what Trellis shows and what it doesn't. Counts on seats give teachers actionable awareness. A sorted leaderboard would create anxiety and surveillance — the opposite of what good teaching needs. Trellis draws that line carefully.
What changes over time
Because counts are visible on seats every day, teachers can watch this shift happen in real time — not just discover it in an end-of-semester report.
Grounded in research
Effective formative assessment requires reaching every student — not just those who signal readiness. Removing raised-hand norms and distributing questions equitably nearly doubles self-assessment gains.
Collective teacher efficacy — the single strongest predictor of student achievement at d=1.57 — is built through mastery experiences. Consistent, documented equitable reach creates those experiences for teachers and students alike.
Training alone produces minimal behavior change. Sustainable equitable practice requires organizational infrastructure that makes the right behavior — reaching every student — the path of least resistance.
See it in a lesson
A demo runs through a simulated lesson with the equity selector active — you'll see the counts on every seat, watch the selector surface a student, and see exactly what gets documented.