EXPONENTIALLY BETTER
Success beyond the metrics
Groundbreaking behavioural mechanics and Cambridge-developed tech that delivers automatic student success
Enhanced Student Engagement and Motivation
Improved Social and Emotional Skills
Demonstrable Academic Progress
Proven impact for ages 13 to 17
Dear Teachers,
You're caught in a relentless cycle of high expectations and limited resources.
You grapple with constant pressure to integrate the latest educational tools and trends into your already overflowing workload, fearing the adoption of new technologies that may not deliver value or enhance student engagement.
You worry about the effectiveness of tools for improving student outcomes amidst the backdrop of diverse classroom needs and the ever-looming shadow of standardised testing.
The thought of implementing yet another programme without substantial support or evidence of its efficacy likely leaves you feeling even more overwhelmed and sceptical.
I know you want something genuinely transformative that simplifies rather than complicates your life, enhances learning meaningfully, and respects the complexities of your daily challenges without straining your budget or your spirit.
Exponentially Better
Is a high impact educational intervention that leverages groundbreaking cognitive behavioural mechanics and specialist technology developed at Cambridge University to deliver automatic
student success
Imagination Edcuation
How we do it
In just one day Exponentially Better transforms students into architects of their own growth. Freeing you from class management to spend more time inspiring and guiding self-driven learners.
By leveraging cutting-edge neuropsychology and behavioural science, Exponentially Better equips students with a compelling vision that drives their learning, powered by a toolbox of micro-habits, goal-setting techniques and resilience-building strategies that accumulate to deliver profound change over time.
Phase One
Discovery
Students engage with a curriculum crafted from cutting-edge research in behavioural psychology, storytelling, and cognitive science. This phase utilises memory enhancement techniques and testing effects to prime students for optimal engagement and success in the subsequent phases.
Phase Two
Goal-Getting Model
Students cross the responsibility gambit, and learn sophisticated tools and methodologies that enable them to define personal objectives through a specialised process. Students develop sub-goal networks, utilising gamification and habit-stacking techniques to forge a resilient pathway to success.
Phase Three
Metacognitve Superpowers
Clarifies the interplay between metacognitive strategies and neurobiological processes, placing students in command of their own transformations. Students discover advanced self-programming techniques, equipping them with reliable methods for accessing and influencing their mental states.
Phase Four
Hero’s Journey
In the final phase, immediate success pressures are removed, allowing students to adopt and internalise an accelerated learning model. This phase consolidates the key concepts and culminates in a motivational framework that emphasises long-term personal development and community support.
Single-Day
Intervention
Working with expert facilitators in a 1:6 ratio, students master key mental models, form seed habits, and begin personalised goal-setting
Student-Led
Transformation
With digital tools that empower students to map, track, and achieve goals through personalised and gamified habit formation
Expert
Mentorship
Six months of expert guidance and support for students, enhancing motivation and resolving challenges for sustained progress
Teachers Know
Most interventions spark with a burst of initial motivation— a flare shot into the night sky, bright but vanishing quickly, leaving no lasting light.
Distant goals without the habits that build towards them. Speaking to no one in particular; failing to empower anyone truly.
EXPONENTIALLY BETTER
Transforms the Landscape
Focusing on a gradual shift in students' self-perceptions and abilities, to accumulate compounding growth over time.
It’s a mindset shift; fostering vision, self-belief and resilience, empowering students to shape their futures actively, and incorporating the teacher’s intuition.
Exponentially Better
Delivers
Research Driven
Programme Outcomes
A large proven effect size of +0.8 on student ROPELOC scores, with Person correlations of +0.3 to grade point average and +0.7 to social and emotional health
Enhanced Student Engagement and Motivation
A compelling vision directed towards small, achievable tasks paired with gamified tracking creates a feedback loop to progressively greater achievements
Improved Social
and Emotional Skills
Structured content and guidance targeting social abilities and emotional intelligence to enhance interpersonal interactions and personal resilience
Exponentially Better
See for yourself
Exponentially Better has been evaluated through rigorous impact analysis based on the ROPELOC instrument, renowned for its psychometric properties in assessing personal abilities across 14 dimensions including self-confidence, leadership, and time management.
Pilot Research
Study Design
In 2023, 122 students across four groups, all differing in socioeconomic backgrounds completed a pre-post survey supplemented by qualitative data from interviews to measure changes in attitudes, skills, and behaviours before and 2-months after the intervention.
Impact Report
Outcomes
Exponentially Better demonstrated statistically significant improvements in all measured dimensions, with particularly notable gains in self-efficacy, emotional resilience, and teamwork skills, with a large effect size of 0.83, and average score increases of 10.87 validating effectiveness.
A CLOSER LOOK
Below you’ll find a group-wise table reporting effect sizes, overall impact on ROPELOC scores, and standard deviation. This is followed by a series of kernel density plots displaying changes in response scores to an item sample pooled across all groups.
Group | Effect Size (d) | Average Overall Change/Student | S.D |
Group One | 1.249 | 10.45 | 8.37 |
Group Two | 0.541 | 14.1 | 26.08 |
Group Three | 0.763 | 12.76 | 16.72 |
Group Four | 0.921 | 13.02 | 14.13 |
Higher ROPELOC scores gained during Exponentially Better quantitatively signify that students are developing crucial life skills—leadership, resilience, and organisation—by as much as 20-30% compared to baseline measurements.
For teachers, this translates to a more engaged classroom, fewer disciplinary issues, and validation of their teaching methods, enhancing job satisfaction and effectiveness, and improving student outcomes. For more details, request the full report below.
Wider Impact
Additional Findings
Exponentially Better’s impact is stable across genders, and has a slightly greater impact for students who come into the intervention with lower initial ROPELOC scores than average, suggesting the intervention is particularly effective for students who are struggling.
Feedback Loop
Always Improving
Exponentially Better is continually monitoring and improving outcomes. Analysing the impact of different mentors, new pedagogical methods, and tweaks to delivery systems and digital tools. Like our students, Exponentially Better makes small improvments every day.
EXPONENTIALLY BETTER
Why we say
Forget the Metrics
When we’ve got the data
We've all experienced the wave of data-driven education reforms that promised to revolutionise teaching and learning, and how data can illuminate paths to success in our classrooms. But something is lost when we fixate too much on the numbers.
We care about the art of teaching. Those moments when you see a student's eyes light up with understanding, or when you help a shy student find their voice during a class discussion.
These moments happen because we, as teachers, use our intuition, our creativity, and our deep understanding of our students' needs— the aspects of teaching that drew many of us to this profession in the first place.
The Imagication
Revolution
Imagination Education is about prioritising students personal visions of their futures and giving them the tools to craft and materialise thier dreams.
As industry experts grounded in educational data and pedagogy, we see this approach as essential, not supplemental. Integrating constructivist and humanistic educational theory, emphasising knowledge acquisition through personal pursuits, and prioritising self-actualisation.
At the heart of what Exponentially Better delivers.
Imagication is more than simply preparing students for the future; it's about empowering them to envision and navigate their paths actively.
By fostering an educational environment that encourages self-propelled personal growth and reflects real-world relevance, teachers can return to the heart of teaching; their influential role as mentors and inspirers—truly enriching the educational experience and enhancing student outcomes.
Before you go,
As you turn the pages of your journey through teaching, education and beyond, remember that at its heart lies a profound power to shape futures, inspire dreams, and ignite passions.
You are not only educators but the architects of the future, and every day you make the world a little brighter, a little wiser, and little more hopeful. Your impact extends far beyond the classroom—it echoes through generations.
Wherever your journey takes you next, thank you for your immeasurable contributions and for embodying the spirit of true educators.
Sincerely,
Team XB
Your Community:
EXPONENTIALLY BETTER
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General Enquiries
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