AI Coach Platform

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.

AI Coach is now available to every teacher, in the inbox they already check. Here is what we built, and how we got here.

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 direct comparison of TeachFX and Edthena’s AI Coach for K-12 districts. TeachFX analyzes audio talk-time; AI Coach turns classroom video into an ongoing coaching conversation.

The most effective PLC meetings share one quality: the team works on something specific enough to force an instructional decision. The research on effective PLCs points in a specific direction: the topics that change instruction connect collaborative analysis to individual classroom action.

AI Coach and VC3 both help teachers grow, but they fit different needs. Here is how to choose the right Edthena solution for your school, and when to use both.

Districts spend an average of $18,000 per teacher per year on PD, but only 3 in 10 teachers improve. The research points to one missing step: coaching during implementation.