Nino Kapanadze
Leads briefing days. Former deputy in a Vake authorised school; now the person who sits with the senior team and keeps the conversation on the page in front of them.
Packagematrixgrid started from a practical annoyance. Nino was preparing governors’ papers in a school that already had careful clerks and still could not put last year’s leaving cohort, the attendance register, and the mathematics marks on the same table without a fight. The figures were not missing. They were unreadable in the time a board actually has.
The practice now works from Level 11, 76 Kipshidze Street, Tbilisi 0162. We take extracts the office already produces, draw pictures a non-specialist can follow, and sit in the room while the senior team names what the pictures show. Education Performance Insights, in our usage, means that walkthrough — not a warehouse of charts.
Georgia’s school year, the Unified National Examinations, and the difference between a municipal school and a small authorised school in the hills are the grain we work with. We do not claim a method that would fit a bank or a ministry IT programme. We claim that a Tbilisi director can leave a Wednesday morning knowing which three pages to put in the pack.
How we work with a school
A named analyst owns the extract. Drafts come back to the director before anything is photocopied for governors. Pupil names are not required. Small cohorts are dropped from print rather than made into a story. If the files are incomplete, we stop and say so; we do not shade empty cells until they look like a trend.
We work in English on this site because that is the language of the brief. A Georgian-language governors’ summary is a separate, quoted page, not a machine pass over the English pack.
What we will not pretend
We are not inspectors, not a staffing agency, and not a substitute for the subject head who already knows the class. Credentials we will name: years in school offices, familiarity with how marks are stored here, and a habit of declining work that wants a league table for the press. If you need lesson observation or a rewritten development plan, that is other people’s work; we can say so in the first reply.
Who sits with the figures
Giorgi Beridze
Reads examination series — Unified National Examinations and the internal marks schools already keep — and flags cohorts too small to print.
Tamar Gelashvili
Attendance and the winter months. She is the one who asks whether a dip belongs to a bus route, a flu week, or a year group.