What if #technology could help solve teacher shortages? 🤔That’s what BenchK12’s Founder and President, Brooke Barrett, and Makaela Kingsley Head of Strategic Partnerships for Dream.Org and substitute teacher, discussed with Stephen Ladek on the eLearn podcast.🎙️- https://buff.ly/3mfJP5U Listen in to the full interview or jump to a section that you want to learn more about: ⏱️03:40 › Teacher Shortages, An American Silent Crisis—How Brooke and Makaela became aware of the depth of this crisis first-hand during the pandemic and how the situation could be solved by simply creating better systems. ⏱️09:50 › How BenchK12 Can Help—By allowing #educators get #credentials faster and why opening this critical bottleneck will change so much for so many ⏱️12:17 › Logistics and nuances behind all of the different school systems across the US, and how Brooke and her team are able to present a solution that is compatible with them all. ⏱️17:00 › Makaela’s Experience Trying To Be Helpful—by becoming a substitute teacher for her kids’ school during the pandemic ⏱️20:26 › BenchK12′s current challenges, as a start up and the immediate next steps in its future (including a call to action for everyone to help) We are confident that with the right #technology, we can change the current course of the teacher shortage crisis nationwide. This is why our team is building modern technology that leverages decades of experience in #education and #enterprisetech to be a part of the solution. Now YOU can join us by investing in our community round on Wefunder with as little as $100. Current early bird terms are closing fast, so please make your #investment today - https://buff.ly/3KBWj14. Our teachers and schools can’t wait. #EdChat #TeacherProbs
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BenchK12 is the first Talent Empowerment platform designed for the unique needs of K12 education. BenchK12 is an enterprise software solution for State Departments of Education and/or their educator licensing boards/agencies. We empower the credentialing/licensure experience for candidates and agencies helping them reduce the time to get educators licensed and in the classroom--going from months to days. Once in the classroom, our technology supports educators from their first day in the classroom through new opportunities within or beyond their schools. We partner with best-in-class solutions in human capital management, professional development, curriculum, and edtech to ensure that educators have seamless support from the top experts and providers. We are building the future of work for K12 educators, today, and ensuring that they are successful and valued so that every student has the best outcomes.
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Love seeing these kinds of #blockchain use cases taking hold to improve #government! Guess what else we can put on chain for faster verification and #reciprocity in #education? Yup. Educator licenses. It's a part of our platform BenchK12 and our ethos. If you earned the license you should be able to hold a verified version in your digital wallet. And if you move districts or even States, it should be instantly verifiable and valid. https://lnkd.in/gRMeQT27
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Love reading about the acknowledgement that educators go through phases in their career! If you are or know an educator, you know this all too well. But what is missing from this article? The phases of *becoming* an educator. Pre-service, educator pathways, and licensure are all massive hurdles and we lose so many potentially great educators before they even get to the classroom. BenchK12 is committed to supporting educators at *every* phase of their career (and supporting those who support educators!). We're launching a new tool soon and updating our website so you can learn more about the entire ecosystem we're building for educators and all of the partners who support them. https://lnkd.in/gCiWZ5uJ
Teachers’ Careers Go Through Phases. They Need Support in Each
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Great to see #NewTeacherTrack get this win in Connecticut to improve licensure: https://lnkd.in/guihG7Cj
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The Florida Department of Education we'd love to help you streamline educator licensure with our modern technology purpose-built for education, especially for those seeking reciprocity. https://lnkd.in/gtVnXs2A
Amid Florida teacher shortage, out-of-state teachers say they are having trouble getting certified
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In tonight's #SOTU you will likely hear that #apprenticeships are a domestic policy focus from The White House. (More details including all things interagency #collaboration, #data, and #funding below.) BenchK12 has been honored to co-chair a working group on #educator apprenticeship data #infrastructure with The Pathways Alliance and the Ed-Fi Alliance (S/O Erin Mote and Lindsey Judd) that is making recommendations to the U.S. Department of Labor given their historic investment. (We're also cooking up some new technology in response to some needs we've heard over the past few weeks, so follow here or our company page for updates!) As you'll read in the executive order I've linked to here, none of this work can be realized without *tons* of *strategic* collaboration. Our working group will need the informed input and knowledge from a lot of folks in the coming months, so if you want to *meaningfully* contribute, let me know! Important note: As a for-profit company, it is not often that folks trust those with our designation into these spaces as a true collaborator. I believe that needs to change (multi-sector collabs #ftw!), but it is incumbent upon for-profit companies to be good actors in these spaces in order to earn our place. (Full transparency: This working group is unpaid work.) BenchK12 will always work to be that kind of company while I lead it. https://lnkd.in/gMyBZrrA
Executive Order on Scaling and Expanding the Use of Registered Apprenticeships in Industries and the Federal Government and Promoting Labor-Management Forums | The White House
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We are so grateful for investors like Megan McNally who invested early in us and believe that we can solve the global educator shortage by making it frictionless to get licensed and then get tons of support once you're in the classroom. Let's give the press something else to write about.
Substitute teachers are a critical part of a healthy public education system. The problem isn't just one of shortage - it's one of friction. From credentialing to placement, we've made it incredibly hard for every party in the marketplace. As a result, potential subs drop from the pipeline, teachers shoulder the burden, and students suffer. To solve the shortage we've got to fix the friction. And it is indeed solvable. My money is on BenchK12. Literally. If this is a challenge you care about, too, keep an eye on Brooke Barrett and her team.
Teachers Are Missing More School, and There Are Too Few Substitutes
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We are super close to raising $100k in our community round for BenchK12 on Wefunder! Only today and tomorrow left to go. We'd love for you to consider investing in our team and product that will help solve the global educator shortage. Our smallest check size is $100 and the largest was $30k (beyond a $45k angel investment from FBA Capital outside of the platform). Not only is this an investment you can feel good about, but did you know that just solving the substitute teacher shortage is a market larger than #Lyft, #Uber, and #taxis combined? 😳 Join us: www.wefunder.com/benchk12
Invest in BenchK12: Build the future of work for educators today
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The countdown has begun... ***FRIDAY DEADLINE*** Have you invested yet?! How many companies have the potential to solve a multi-billion dollar global social problem and give you the chance to invest in them from Day 1? Join us as a BenchK12 "Day 1" investor and join our team which includes the former head of EdTech Strategy for Amazon Web Services (AWS), former SVP and GM of the Education Cloud at Salesforce, and the former Superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools. We know this problem and we're gonna solve it. With you.
Founder, President & CEO | Champion & Connector of Women Founders, Investors, & Board Members (& Aspiring) | P20 Education Ecosystem Expert | Education Data Infrastructure & Interoperability Geek | Angel Investor
This is the last week to invest in BenchK12! Our equity crowdfund (you own a piece of the company!) on Wefunder closes on 12/15. You can invest as little as $100. to help us solve the global teacher shortage. After this week I will never again offer this chance to invest or talk about it again, so I hope to see your name come through! www.wefunder.com/benchk12
Invest in BenchK12: Build the future of work for educators today
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We are a multicultural and international team at BenchK12, but we are U.S.-based, and (for now) our work is national in scope. As most folks will acknowledge, the U.S. Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday. For many, it represents a traumatic genocide while for others, it represents gathering loved ones together for a meal. As a company, we are taking this week off and, I hope, that as we grow and mature as a company this week will always be one that will be a break for our team that allows us to express our gratitude for their efforts to serve those who we exist for and will always be grateful towards--our educators. None of us would be who we are today without the educators in our lives and every person who believed in us, nurtured us, and contributed to our success in ways big and small. So wherever this post finds you, I hope you'll join us in expressing your gratitude, meaningfully, this week and throughout the rest of the year. Everyone can use some extra love and appreciation over the holidays and we're sending some of ours to you.
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