Education Innovator
ABOUT
I am a passionate education advocate looking to help reinvent the classroom with practices that consider the whole child. I spent five years as an early elementary teacher focusing on my student's social-emotional well-being and constantly innovated my teaching practice to create a love of learning for my students. Looking to challenge my teaching pedagogy, I earned my Masters in Teaching and Curriculum with a certification in Technology.
Wanting to deeply understand the education system, I joined an EdTech startup in Australia focused on personalized learning. While there, I increased customer retention 19% by identifying customer needs and creating personalized professional development through gap analysis, using support tickets and teacher focus group data to drive better performance for districts.
Continuing on my quest to innovate education, I became the first employee at a Y-Combinator backed startup in San Francisco. AskMyClass is a classroom helper on Alexa that saves teachers time and engages students screen-free. I currently lead projects across product development, marketing & sales, content creation, and partnerships to support company growth.
MY EXPERIENCE
Summary
The first employee of Y-Combinator backed startup. Led projects across product development, marketing & sales, content creation, and partnerships to support company growth
Increased the customer base from 265 teachers to 2,300+ (750%) through community building, social media outreach, and email campaigns ($0 marketing budget)
Coached and provided strategic guidance to school-wide colleagues on using personalized learning to improve student outcomes
Managed a large community of teachers and increased satisfaction to 89% by supporting them in their practice, serving as a thought partner, problem solver and an innovation driver
Managed a cross-functional team of marketing, development, and learning to create content and professional development used in hundreds of schools
Worked with educators to share the collective genius of the teacher community by creating a Community Hub (online portal), professional development and regular regional meetings
Designed and executed the customer acquisition and retention strategy for the company resulting in increased leads and retention
Acted as marketing, events, community, social media, communications, lead generation, product manager, product owner and anything else our startup needed to thrive
Worked with customer support to decrease the amount of “community” support tickets, making all teams more efficient
Orchestrated all parts of event planning process for national conferences from finding presenters, creating sessions, handling logistics and managing a $80,000 budget with 98% satisfaction from attendees
“The first step in teaching students to innovate is making sure that educators have opportunities to be innovators themselves.”
