Creating Engaging Lesson Plans Despite Sleep-Deprivation
By Scarlett Kaufusi As a junior at Cornell University, I see it all the time: students clinging to their coffees while stumbling into class and slumping over in their chairs.They’ll stare blankly in the general direction of the lecturer, dawning dark eye circles and sporadically yawning. I’ll admit I’ve been that person to show up […]
Press Release: LessonLoop Launches Version 2
December 19, 2024 LessonLoop Launches Version 2 with Groundbreaking Updates to Empower Educators CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., December, 2024 — LessonLoop announced the release of Version 2, a significant update designed to enhance teacher instructional effectiveness and improve student engagement. Key updates include: “After years of innovation and feedback from teachers, students, and administrators, and with the […]
Press Release: LessonLoop Wins $150,000 in Global EdTech Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., July 25, 2024— LessonLoop received a top award today in the global Tools Competition as one of 50 winning teams building or expanding learning tools to address pressing issues in education. From a global field of 1,900 submissions, LessonLoop was named a Tools Competition 2023-24 winner for its groundbreaking professional […]
LessonLoop Featured on Teachers College CPET Podcast: Teaching Today
By LessonLoop Team, April 2024 Episode 138 of a podcast hosted by the Center For Professional Education of Teachers at Teachers College, Columbia University, features Nona Ullman, CEO of LessonLoop, and Melissa Payette, Director of Professional Learning and Customer Success at LessonLoop. Ullman and Payette speak with host Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang on the Teaching Today […]
LessonLoop CEO Nona Ullman featured on Startup Cornell, Podcast Hosted By Entrepreneurship at Cornell
See original post: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/05/alums-software-helps-teachers-know-whats-working-classroom By Kathy Hovis May 8, 2023 The 21st episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Nona Ullman ‘88, CEO of LessonLoop and president of Improve LLC, companies focused on the public education and information technology sectors. Ullman talks about building her business to help improve learning for kids in […]
The Value, and Challenge, of Creativity in Teaching
By Melissa Payette, Director of Professional Learning and Customer Success The demands on teachers created by high-stakes testing, students struggling to engage in school post-COVID, and increasingly stressful parent interactions, among countless other things, have made creativity more of a time-consuming luxury than an expectation for lessons. As Carl Hooker notes in his insightful EdSurge […]
LessonLoop Recognized by New York State as Newly Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Sponsor
First to Enable Job-Embedded Teacher Professional Learning Driven by Student Voice and Engagement Data NEW YORK – Apr 21, 2023– Personalized professional learning firm LessonLoop, which helps upskill educators using real-time student voice and engagement data, announced its authorization as an approved New York State Education Department (NYSED) Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education […]
Administrator-Led Morning Meetings
By Melissa Payette, Director of Professional Learning and Customer Success Morning Meetings, once thought of as a routine that best served early elementary grades, have been redefined as a framework that can support learners at any age. In a recent article, Edutopia presents a new approach: administrator-led morning meetings for middle school students, and this […]
