Edthena Blog

Washington Township’s middle school math team gives two weekly assessments created at the instructional coaching level and talks through the results at weekly PLCs. Here is what that cadence looks like, the results its coach reports, and four moves leaders can copy.

Edthena, with researchers at University of Virginia, TeachingWorks at University of Michigan, and Boston University, has won a two-year, $750,000 Gates Foundation grant to build an AI teaching simulation where elementary math teachers rehearse a Number Talk before class, teach it, and see how the two compare.

Edie, the AI-powered coach, is now available to every teacher in their inbox. Here is what we built, and how we got here.

Observation Copilot changes one specific part of a principal’s post-walkthrough routine: turning raw walkthrough notes into written, framework-aligned feedback teachers can receive the same day.

EdTech Digest featured Observation Copilot in its Cool Tools column, spotlighting the free tool’s integration with The Danielson Group’s Framework for Teaching and the hours it saves principals on observation write-ups.

New teachers lose most of their structured support the day they get their own classroom. Closing the induction cliff takes ongoing coaching across the school year, not a one-time workshop.

WashU’s Institute for School Partnership named Edthena its AI coaching partner in a national RPPL-funded study on AI and teacher professional learning.

AI coaching does not replace instructional coaches. It solves a different problem: most teachers get far less coaching than they need. A direct answer for district leaders on how AI Coach augments, not replaces, human coaching.

A prioritization framework for leaders planning fall PD budgets: what the research says about professional learning that transfers to classroom practice, a fund-this-not-that decision frame, and how to extend coaching capacity without adding staff.