| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.02.2025 | BetterLesson Acquires Abl | BetterLesson, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of data-driven professional learning for K-12 educators, acquired Abl, a McLean, VA-based company which specializes in student scheduling and programming.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed... |
| 24.09.2024 | Ian Chiu, Managing Director at Owl Ventures, on the VatorNews innovation podcast | Owl Ventures is the largest edtech VC firm with over $2.25B in assets under management
Vator · Ian Chiu, Managing Director at Owl Ventures, on the VatorNews innovation podcast
Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco Roizen speak with Ian Chiu, Mana... |
| 22.06.2023 | BetterLesson Earns ESSA Level IV Certification with Well-Defined Logic Model Based on Rigorous Research | Westwood, Massachusetts (PRWEB) June 22, 2023
Professional learning provider, BetterLesson, has successfully earned ESSA Level 4 certification - Demonstrates a Rationale - for its alignment to the level of evidence-based interventions requi... |
| 24.02.2023 | BetterLesson Partners with Kikori to Provide SEL Professional Learning Opportunities for Educators | Kikori, a social-emotional learning platform, and BetterLesson team up to implement new professional learning courses
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB) February 24, 2023
BetterLesson, a leading provider of high-quality virtual and in-person K–12 pro... |
| 24.02.2023 | BetterLesson Partners with Kikori to Provide SEL Professional Learning Opportunities for Educators | “Teachers of all grade levels can now create an SEL-focused curriculum and receive the support needed to put Kikori to work in their classrooms—connecting teachers with their students more than ever before,” said Kari Horn Lehman, Director ... |
| 04.04.2022 | BetterLesson Partners with TeachFX to Drive Student-Centered Instructional Practices Through Actionable Data | “Measuring the impact that evolving teaching practices have on student engagement and participation is perhaps the most powerful insight we can offer to educators during their professional journey,” said Matthew Kennard, CEO of BetterLesson... |
| 08.02.2022 | BetterLesson Introduces ‘BL Connect,’ Providing Practical, On-Demand Professional Learning for Educators | “The responsibilities of K–12 educators have expanded significantly over the past decade. The supports we provide educators must meet them where they are across multiple learning modalities and high-demand K–12 content areas,” said Matthew ... |
| 19.10.2021 | BetterLesson Partners with EL Education, Pairing Professional Development with the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum | “Our partnership with BetterLesson means that we will reach more students through instruction that challenges, engages, and empowers them,” said Scott Hartl, President and CEO of EL Education.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB) October 19, 2021
Bette... |
| 08.09.2021 | BetterLesson’s ‘Empowered Algebra Learning For All’ Named 1 of 11 Grand Challenge Grantees | “Our entire team couldn’t be more honored and humbled,” said Erin Osborn, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at BetterLesson.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB) September 08, 2021
BetterLesson, a leading provider of high quality virtual and in-pe... |
| 04.05.2021 | BetterLesson Releases Nearly 50 Instructional Strategies to Help Teachers Meet the Needs of All Learners | “Our Master Teachers show us that educators are eager to improve their craft and share their best practices - at any stage in their careers,” said Valerie Librizzi, Senior Manager of Instructional Content at BetterLesson.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (... |
| 07.04.2021 | Districts Leverage $300,000 Matching Grant Program to Improve Flexible Learning and Address Social Justice | “It’s incredibly heartening to see that despite an ongoing pandemic and social and political unrest, schools and districts across the U.S. are motivated to improve teaching and learning in new environments and adopt strategies that promote ... |
| 24.02.2021 | BetterLesson Appoints Seasoned Educational Technology Leader Matthew Kennard as CEO | “Matt's long history of successful collaboration with school districts combined with deep user empathy for teachers and administrators make him a uniquely perfect fit for leading BetterLesson,” said Tory Patterson, BetterLesson board member... |
| 28.11.2017 | New Markets Venture Partners Joins $10M Series B for BetterLesson | BetterLesson said it raised $10 million of Series B financing in a round led by Owl Ventures. Joining the round are existing investors New Markets Venture Partners, Reach Capital and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.
As part of the dea... |
| 28.11.2017 | Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Joins $10M Series B for BetterLesson | BetterLesson said it raised $10 million of Series B financing in a round led by Owl Ventures. Joining the round are existing investors New Markets Venture Partners, Reach Capital and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.
As part of the dea... |
| 28.11.2017 | BetterLesson Raises $10M Series B with Owl Ventures to Scale its Coaching Program for Teachers | Cambridge-based BetterLesson announced on Tuesday it has raised a $10 million Series B round of financing led by Owl Ventures, with the participation of existing investors Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, New Markets Venture Partners an... |
| 28.11.2017 | BetterLesson Raises $10M in Series B Funding | BetterLesson, a Boston, MA-based provider of professional development products to the education industry, raised $10m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Owl Ventures with participation from existing investors New Markets Venture Part... |
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| 28.11.2017 | New Markets Venture Partners Joins $10M Series B for BetterLesson | BetterLesson said it raised $10 million of Series B financing in a round led by Owl Ventures. Joining the round are existing investors New Markets Venture Partners, Reach Capital and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.
As part of the dea... |
| 28.11.2017 | BetterLesson plans to ramp up hiring efforts with a fresh $10M Series B round | Photo via BetterLesson
Schools aren’t the only facet of education being transformed by technology — teachers are too.
No one knows this better than Cambridge-based BetterLesson, which raised a $10 million Series B round today led by Owl Ven... |
| 28.11.2017 | Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Joins $10M Series B for BetterLesson | BetterLesson said it raised $10 million of Series B financing in a round led by Owl Ventures. Joining the round are existing investors New Markets Venture Partners, Reach Capital and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.
As part of the dea... |
| 28.11.2017 | BetterLesson Collects $10M to Push Teacher Development Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As more K-12 schools adopt technologies meant to help deliver an education customized to each student, the methods for coaching teachers are becoming more digital and personal... |
| 07.03.2016 | Why Traditional Education Reformers Struggle With Blended Learning | For years education reformers have fought to create new, publicly-funded schools to drive change. The rise of blended learning has accordingly vexed many of them because much of its growth is happening in classrooms inside existing public s... |
| 16.02.2016 | BetterLesson Grabs $6M to Make Teacher Development More Personal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When former teachers Alex Grodd and Erin Osborn started BetterLesson in 2008, their startup was part of a surge of companies creating online repositories of lesson plans and h... |
| 16.02.2016 | BetterLesson Raises $6 Million to Make Professional Development Personal | Like the students they teach, educators need personalized support to grow. And they’ll get that support, not from sitting in classrooms or conferences, but through interacting with coaches and mentors.
That idea has fueled a $6 million Seri... |
| 15.02.2016 | New Money: Jana Lands $57M Round Led By Verizon, Constant Therapy Gets $1.9M, BetterLesson Raises $6M | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates.
Jana (Boston)
Amount: $57 million Series C
Investors: Verizon Venture... |
| 28.01.2015 | BetterLesson Brings Lean Startup Culture to Professional Development | Build. Measure. Learn. Iterate. Broken down into these four steps, the “Lean Startup” method that’s become a mantra for startups is something teachers are also familiar with. They design lessons, measure impact, learn from mistakes and chan... |
| 13.05.2014 | BetterLesson’s Plan for Better Blended Lessons | Six years since the publication of Disrupting Class and Rocketship’s first learning labs, the body of knowledge for individual teachers around blended learning is still quite limited. While the internet is exploding with loads of resources ... |
| 15.01.2014 | Lesson Plans from Teachers’ ‘Soul Mates’ | Type “geometry lessons for high school” into Google and you’ll get 4 million results. For any teacher, that’s a daunting and basically useless collection. Hours can be wasted looking for the right lesson to fit one’s teaching style. However... |
| 08.10.2013 | Bonsal To Run Maryland Biz Incubator | Throughout the US, more than a dozen “incubators” are helping jump start fledgling education technology companies. That means that getting companies started has become the easy part. Now the road less travelled involves helping companies wo... |
| 12.02.2013 | A Three-Part View of the Teacher Tools Landscape | In consumer technology explaining your place can be as simple as explaining the problem and solution in one sentences: People have a pain point, and we have a solution for that.
In education, though, while you might be solving a real proble... |
| 23.11.2012 | Funding Daily: Thanksgiving leftovers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As you can imagine, the investment circuit is in ... |
| 21.11.2012 | BetterLesson Receives $3.5M From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Bring The Magic Of Great Teaching Online | As the influence of technology grows in education, many have started to predict the coming obsolescence of classroom fixtures like textbooks, chalkboards, standardized testing — and even teachers. While technology will no doubt transform an... |
| 02.07.2012 | Resetting Education: The rebounding edtech ecosystem | Edtech is finally seeing a revival after the burst of the Internet bubble
The term “edtech” seems like an easy blanket term that covers all things “educational” and “technological.” But a peek beneath the surface reveals a rich, blooming ec... |
| 29.09.2011 | Three Companies to Watch: BetterLesson, Wikets, and PeerApp Raise Funds | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On a dismal day in Boston, here are a few tech-related company financings worth mentioning (one in mobile/social, one in video, and one in education):
—BetterLesson, a Cambrid... |
| 28.09.2011 | BetterLesson Grabs $1.6 Million To Let Educators Find And Share The Best Lesson Plans | Primary and high school teachers already have a hard job. It’s difficult to envy the pour souls who had the unfortunate position of educating the type of disorderly rapscallions like myself at a young age. Not to mention, enduring low wages... |
