A teacher can never tell where his/her influence stops. Educators are catalysts for change, inspirers of dreams, and motivators for success to countless students who pass through their classrooms. Kindergarten Teacher Greg Gorman never imagined he would inspire or motivate teachers when he developed ESGI. ESGI stands for Educational Software for Guiding Instruction and it automates one-on-one assessments, so teachers can give them faster and print usable reports immediately.

Gorman first created the software out of necessity in 2001. He spent countless hours shuffling through paper assessments, doing all the analysis by hand. Greg realized that a computer database could track his classroom assessment data faster and more thoroughly, so he designed it. Greg took a programming class and spent his nights and weekends developing ESGI. By 2002, he was using the software in his own classroom and soon teachers from neighboring districts wanted their own copies of the quick and easy early-literacy assessment tool. In 2006, Greg began offering this software to the public by hosting it on the Internet for easy worldwide access.

Now, teachers from California to South Korea are using ESGI to conduct one-on-one assessments. No other educational tool does what this software can. ESGI collects the thousands of bits of data involved with assessing letters, sounds, sight words, blends, initial sounds, and more. The ESGI Team travels the country giving demonstrations of the revolutionary teaching tool. Greg Gorman believes in ESGI so much that he recently left the classroom to continue developing the program.