Melissa Corto founded Education Modified in 2011 to improve instruction for students with special needs. Education Modified uses verified research to back up its approach and provides teachers with instant access to learning-needs information, strategies, data collection & workflow tools to support them in the classroom
"As a former special educator for 9 years, it was important for us to build technology for teachers — specifically special education teachers — because as professionals they need it," said Corto in an email statement to Business Insider. "We know more about special needs and neuro-diversity than we ever have before, but teachers don't have easy access to this information, nor are there workflow solutions to tie this content to students and track what works for student progress."
In 2014, Dave Vasen founded Brightwheel to provide an all-in-one software platform to help teachers manage their preschool classrooms. The platform, backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2018, also allows preschool administrators to run the school in addition to helping on the business side of things.
"Our focus is on teachers," Vasen wrote to Business Insider. "We have spent hundreds of hours observing, shadowing, and listening to teachers in order to build a product that is intuitive and adds real value. As we take feedback from teachers every day, we rapidly make improvements and launch new features. The result is a product that is built for them. We're proud that Brightwheel saves as much as one hour per staff member per day — time that goes back to young students and making life easier for teachers."
Tailor-ED launched out of Silicon Valley incubator Y-Combinator in March 2019. Founder and CEO Maayan Yavne started Tailor-ED to take on the "one size fits all" approach of matching students and teachers in the classroom. Her company assesses student needs via short quizzes and groups them based on the results. Tailor-ED then matches teachers to personalized lesson plans based on the groups' needs.
"Teachers are almost always overlooked and undervalued, yet have the greatest impact on student achievement," Yavne told Business Insider. "The key to unlocking the potential in every student is empowering teachers with the tools and resources to do so."
Another Y-Combinator alum, RocketLit works with science and social studies teachers to develop lesson plans around adaptive reading and reading comprehension. Brendan Finch, CEO and cofounder, said the goal is to train "the next generation of scientists" by teaching them to use skills learned in the classroom to solve novel problems.
"I started RocketLit from my classroom after teaching science for 7 years to brilliant students that struggled with reading," Finch emailed Business Insider. "They needed to improve their reading level and learn new Science concepts, so we built RocketLit so teachers could individualize instruction for every student."
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