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 learning platform that offers a personalized, data-driven feedback loop for teachers and students to improve learner engagement. With real-time student engagement insights, LessonLoop empowers educators in grades 3-12 to create more joyful, active, meaningful, rigorous, equitable, and effective lessons.
“It’s both an incredible honor and opportunity to advance LessonLoop’s Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities to use learner engagement data and evidenced-based instructional strategies to deepen professional inquiry and personalize instruction for students,” noted LessonLoop Founder and CEO, Nona Ullman.
LessonLoop earned a Growth Award in the Learning Engineering Tools Competition’s Accelerating and Assessing Learning track because of the platform’s demonstrated grounding in education literature, learning science, and its intrinsic equity-based framework, making it a first-of-its-kind software.
“Student engagement predicts student outcomes, and we’ve designed a solution that bridges the gap between student experience and educator expertise,” said Ullman. “This award enables us to partner with the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET) at Teachers College, Columbia University to author, test, and conduct research on customized instructional guidance for educators.”
Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang of CPET commented, “We are excited to collaborate with LessonLoop as we design a robust library of 5,000 research-based instructional strategies informed by learner engagement data. This dataset will allow educators to use the platform’s GenAI tool to generate personalized examples for their unique context, and prompt teachers to customize lesson activities to strategically align with student learning needs.”
Research funded by this grant will be shared with The Penn Center for Learning Analytics, as part of our work with the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL), where LessonLoop is an Affiliate+. RPPL’s research team is at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. District research partners include the Empowerment Zone Schools within South Bend Community School Corporation (IN) and Beechwood Independent School District (KY).
For more details on the winning LessonLoop proposal please visit https://tools-competition.org/winner/lessonloop.
About Tools Competition
The Tools Competition is one of the largest edtech competitions in the world. It aims to spur edtech innovation leveraging digital technology, big data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of learners worldwide.
The 2023-24 Tools Competition was run with support from: Renaissance Philanthropy, Griffin Catalyst, Walton Family Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Siegel Family Endowment, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Ballmer Group, Calbright College, Axim Collaborative, Jacobs Foundation, Endless Network, and OpenAI.
About LessonLoop
LessonLoop (www.lessonloop.org) amplifies student voice to create engaging and effective education. LessonLoop’s learner engagement analytics and professional learning platform measures how students experience a lesson cognitively, socially, emotionally, and through lesson design, content accessibility, and technology use. Student survey results are used to provide educators with real time insight and personalized instructional learning strategies to improve student academic engagement and outcomes.
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Contact:
Trudy Edelson
trudy@lessonloop.org
