Low Code/High Impact Podcast

In this episode of Low Code/High Impact, we sit down with Sarah Sheikh, founder of The Power of Formative Assessment, an edtech company based in Dubai. Sarah spent over a decade teaching in international schools before identifying a critical gap in how student progress was being measured. In education, attainment (student achievement at a point in time) and progress (growth measured over time) are two distinct concepts, yet no platform effectively tracked both. That insight, combined with her master’s research on formative assessment, led Sarah to launch The Power of Formative Assessment and build its core product, LearningBytes, a school improvement platform that tracks student progress from their starting point against each learning objective across any curriculum, whether American, British, or IB. What started as an Excel tracker in 2012 has evolved into a full-scale application with four dashboards, AI-powered data analysis, PDF report card generation, and a parent portal. Working with Caspio’s Professional Services team, Sarah has completed six development phases and is now preparing phases seven and eight. Together, we discuss how she went from classroom teacher to edtech founder, why she chose Caspio over traditional developers, and how school feedback reshaped her product vision from a learning management system into a true school improvement system.

In this episode of Low Code / High Impact, we speak with Karen Elfner, an education program evaluator supporting a statewide initiative focused on training, implementation fidelity, and student behavior outcomes. Before adopting Caspio, Karen’s team managed surveys and program data through Microsoft Access, Qualtrics, spreadsheets, and paper forms, making education data management time-consuming, inconsistent, and difficult to scale. Using Caspio, Karen built a centralized platform that brings all education data management tasks into one system, including participant tracking, validated measures, school-level implementation data, and reporting for districts and project staff. With low code, the team replaced multiple disconnected tools, reduced manual data handling, and created a streamlined structure for managing data across the entire statewide initiative.

In this episode of Low Code/High Impact, we speak with Spike Cheever, President of Evolve, about how the organization supports Medicaid and Medicare Advantage health plans by coordinating home-based services that help individuals remain safely in their homes. Spike explains how Evolve bridges healthcare and construction to address safety and accessibility challenges, with the goal of helping members avoid institutional care and maintain independence, which he notes is closely tied to better well-being and health outcomes. The conversation also covers Evolve’s 10+-year journey building and scaling a HIPAA-compliant healthcare application on Caspio. Spike shares why compliance, data security, and audit readiness are essential in healthcare operations, and how automation and integrations have improved efficiency as the organization continues to grow.

In this episode of Low Code/High Impact, we sit down with Ricardo Gonzalez, Applications Programmer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. Ricardo shares how he has used Caspio’s low-code platform for over two years to replace time-consuming manual processes within the UC Berkeley School of Education. His work includes building internal education apps that automate student certificate generation and developing a secure, cloud-based database application that supports regional academies across the state. What began as a need for a maintainable, non-proprietary database evolved into a full web application that enables role-based access, real-time reporting, and self-service data exploration for both internal staff and external partners. By partnering with Caspio’s Professional Services team, Ricardo and his team delivered a scalable solution that eliminated manual reporting and significantly improved operational efficiency across departments.

In this episode of Low Code / High Impact, we speak with Judith Espinoza and Kristen Tsosie from the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board (AAIHB) about how they use Caspio to deliver HIPAA-protected solutions that strengthen data sovereignty and improve health outcomes for 27 Native American tribes across the Southwest United States. For over a decade, AAIHB has transformed manual tracking and Access databases into secure, cloud-based systems for COVID-19 monitoring, wellness programs, social services, and tribal courts. Judith and Kristen share how low-code technology empowers non-technical teams to modernize operations, ensure compliance, and preserve trust within their communities.