Lessoncast Learning

Lessoncast transforms how teachers get better at what they do in the classroom – enabling schools to see & improve how they spend $8B/yr on teacher development.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Baltimore, MD, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2011
  • Employees 7
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website lessoncast.com

Company Summary

Lessoncast is a teacher learning platform. Our suite of interconnected student, teacher, and administrator apps help schools manage and draw direct connections between teacher professional learning and student achievement. Lessoncast allows districts to leverage proven professional development (PD) content within a flexible framework that is more cost effective, capability building and customizable than any outside solution. Individual teachers, schools, or districts purchase annual licenses to one of three apps: Locker ($10/student), Binder ($125- 300/teacher), Board (based on scope, min $150K).

Team

  • Nicole Tucker-Smith
    Cofounder & Chief Executive Officer

    Nicole is a 17-year educator, adjunct professor, administrator, and former principal. She's led a successful school turn-around for a large middle school and coordinated systemwide professional development in Baltimore County, MD. Nicole also designed the personalized learning model and platform for Henderson-Hopkins, the JHU partnership school for personalized learning in Baltimore City.

  • Khalid Smith
    Cofounder & Chief Product Officer

    Khalid has 10 years experience as a marketing and strategic brand manager for Procter and Gamble. He also holds two engineering degrees (B.S., M.S. Engineering). Khalid also has extensive contacts in education entrepreneurship as he was the Founding Director of StartupWeekend Education, which he built into an international community-building force in education technology.

Advisors

  • Frank Bonsal III
    Entrepreneurship Programs Lead at Towson University
    Vince Talbert
    Chairman Network for Good
    Unconfirmed
    Alan Louie
    Founder Imagine K12
    Unconfirmed

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