Who We Are

CHASE Education Solutions is a South African education technology solutions provider and publisher that seeks to close the literacy gap by supporting the teaching of reading with the highly acclaimed graded reading series, Key Links. CHASE offers the award-winning AMIRA Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled reading tutor with data analytics that accelerates reading proficiency and informs teaching and learning.

 

To support learners to succeed in their matric examinations, CHASE is launching the SA edition of the popular Studyclix platform in 2023/2024 to enable teachers to deliver high quality, relevant NSC exam practice to their students.

Our Values

CHASE is dedicated to the upliftment of society and the economy through education improvement, focusing on economic mobility through literacy improvement in particular.

 

We partner with both local and globally recognised experts within our network.

 

We are a proudly South African company operating in emerging and developing countries with Systems Thinking at the centre of what we do.

 

We believe that teachers are important. We know that the most impactful learning occurs when a collective of committed teachers believe that they can positively influence learner outcomes together and strive to do so.

Philosophy and Approach

We subscribe to the Balanced Literacy approach supported by a wealth of exceptional, engaging resources that allow learners to experience reading confidence.

We know that the ability to decode text using phonic knowledge and phonemic awareness improves reading comprehension and should be taught explicitly as well as being integrated into Shared Reading and Guided Reading lessons.

 

Adopting the RTI framework of “support, prevent, remediate” coupled with formative assessment and data analytics, enables schools to dramatically improve literacy performance. We subscribe to integrating 21st Century skills into teaching and learning programmes to promote higher order thinking.

Meet the Team

Lynne Beachy Head

Chief Executive Officer

Lynne is a recognised leader with a successful track record in the Education, Publishing, Entertainment and Digital Learning industries both locally and abroad.

 

Prior to co-founding CHASE, Lynne led Juta, South Africa’s oldest publishing house, for 11 years as CEO.

 

A former teacher, Lynne’s MBA research spurred her to pursue her passion for applying Systems Thinking to the challenges facing education in South Africa, including through the application of new technologies. It is with this ambition that CHASE was founded, focusing on literacy improvement as the gateway to all learning.

Sakkie de Villiers

Finance Director

Co-founder of CHASE, Sakkie has extensive experience in Finance, Operations and Governance. With Lynne, he successfully led Juta as Financial Director and Head of Operations for 15 years where, together, they developed their passion for education solutions, and literacy in particular.

 

Sakkie is a trusted and effective problem solver, always seeking continuous improvement. By bringing to bear his Finance qualifications and his training as an Organisational and Relationship Systems Coach, Sakkie masterfully balances financial and human factors in co-creating solutions that work.

Our Featured Partners

Jill Eggleton QSO

Author, Co-Founder of Global Ed

Jill is the co-founder of GES and Code-Ed. Internationally acclaimed literacy expert and author, Jill trains teachers in literacy and classroom management across the globe.

She has worked with teachers, administrators, reading specialists and advisors in school districts implementing practical literacy programs and sharing her knowledge on assessment and evaluation.

Jill is the author of CHASE’s CAPS-approved Key Links series, Connectors, Into-Connectors and Bud-e.

Global Ed is a multi-award-winning publishing group based in Auckland, New Zealand.

They publish innovative children’s books that stimulate young minds by using humour and thought-provoking themes along with bright illustrations that will equip children with a burning desire to become lifelong readers and writers.

Jill Eggleton QSO, educationist and author of nearly 1000 children’s books, leads Global Ed alongside co-founder Tracy Strudley.

Winning New Zealand’s Teachers’ Choice Award for Best Resource in Primary Education for their iUgo platform, Essential Resources is an Education Content and Software Developer.

Essential Resources supports learning with fun, engaging resources that encourage a love of learning and useful planning platforms that save teachers time.

Code-Ed builds evidence-based teaching resources that assess and identify gaps in knowledge of the alphabetic code in English and provide support for phonics and phonemic awareness intervention and remediation. Joy Allcock has spent the last 20 years applying her experience as an occupational therapist to finding ways to improve literacy outcomes for learners.

Code-Ed is a partnership between the founders of Global Ed and Joy Allcock.

Beagle Innovations’ assessment agnostic software tools promote targeted teaching through assessment data analytics. Reporting on measurable shifts in performance, beagle® analyses assessment data for diagnostic, formative and summative purpose to recommend support, prevention, and remediation.

Deborah Grover is an educational consultant and founder and director of Beagle Innovations Ltd.

With AMIRA, the world’s first automated reading coach, the science of reading meets AI. Amira allows students to choose from several appropriately difficult and engaging texts to read. As students read out loud Amira listens, assesses, and when they struggle, Amira provides feedback and support. Amira marries speech recognition and artificial intelligence with the Science of Reading to deliver personalized and in-the-moment tutoring to students as they practice.

Deborah Grover is an educational consultant and founder and director of Beagle Innovations Ltd.

Global Ed is a multi-award-winning publishing group based in Auckland, New Zealand.

They publish innovative children’s books that stimulate young minds by using humour and thought-provoking themes along with bright illustrations that will equip children with a burning desire to become lifelong readers and writers.

Jill Eggleton QSO, educationist and author of nearly 1000 children’s books, leads Global Ed alongside co-founder Tracy Strudley.

Beagle Innovations’ assessment agnostic software tools promote targeted teaching through assessment data analytics. Reporting on measurable shifts in performance, beagle® analyses assessment data for diagnostic, formative and summative purpose to recommend support, prevention, and remediation.

Deborah Grover is an educational consultant and founder and director of Beagle Innovations Ltd.

Winning New Zealand’s Teachers’ Choice Award for Best Resource in Primary Education for their iUgo platform, Essential Resources is an Education Content and Software Developer.

Essential Resources supports learning with fun, engaging resources that encourage a love of learning and useful planning platforms that save teachers time.

Code-Ed builds evidence-based teaching resources that assess and identify gaps in knowledge of the alphabetic code in English and provide support for phonics and phonemic awareness intervention and remediation. Joy Allcock has spent the last 20 years applying her experience as an occupational therapist to finding ways to improve literacy outcomes for learners.

Code-Ed is a partnership between the founders of Global Ed and Joy Allcock.

With AMIRA, the world’s first automated reading coach, the science of reading meets AI. Amira allows students to choose from several appropriately difficult and engaging texts to read. As students read out loud Amira listens, assesses, and when they struggle, Amira provides feedback and support. Amira marries speech recognition and artificial intelligence with the Science of Reading to deliver personalized and in-the-moment tutoring to students as they practice.

Deborah Grover is an educational consultant and founder and director of Beagle Innovations Ltd.