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The Teacher Who Kept Marketing to Teachers
He taught eighth grade for nine years and was named Teacher of the Year. Then he spent the next two decades convincing the world's biggest education brands to market like they still remembered the classroom.
Newsela
Newsela began with a useful classroom trick: make the same story readable at five levels. Thirteen years later, it is assembling instruction, assessment and student data into one district-sized system - without giving up the editorial engine that made teachers notice.
Jennifer Carolan
Jennifer Carolan is co-founder and general partner at Reach Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm she helped build from the ground up to become the most active dedicated edtech investor in the US. A former K-12 history teacher in Chicago who spent nine years learning venture capital at NewSchools Venture Fund, she has since deployed four funds totaling over $500M across 100+ education technology companies. Her portfolio has produced five unicorns including ClassDojo and Handshake, and she continues to teach at Stanford while backing the entrepreneurs she believes are removing the obstacles standing between people and opportunity.