Awards, Competitions, and Product Certifications
2025 Co-Design Product Certification in Partnership with Kansas City Public Schools
2024 Winner of District Administration's Top Ed Tech Products in the Curriculum and Instructional Technology Category (Startup)
2022 – Category Winner of Excellence in Equity: Best Support for English Learners
Equity & Access Magazine 2022 Excellence in Equity Awards (Feb. March Issue, page 65)
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2022 – Finalist for the Tech Edvocate Awards Best Langauge Learning App or Tool
2021 – Learner Variability Certified Product
2021 – A Winner of the 2020-2021 Tools Competition: Mid-Range Prize
2020 – Research-Based Design Certified Product
2016 – A Winner of the NewSchools Ignite ELL Challenge
2015 – Small Business Innovation Research awardee from these agencies:
National Science Foundation (NSF 1632488)
US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (ED-IES-15C0027)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS 1R43ES031433-01)
Archived Media Coverage
The Learning Counsel
New Strategies to Reverse Declining Math Scores, Op-Ed (July 17, 2023)
Digital Promise
Integrating Research-based Strategies into the Design of Educational Technology
to Support All Learners (04/27/2023)
The Learning Counsel
App of the Week (03/13/2023)
Leanlab Education
Speak Agent and the Edtech Research Journey (02/24/2023)
Class Tech Tips
How to Learn Math and Science with Language Support (02/22/2023)
eSchool News
How a Major MD District Boosted Middle Math Achievement (02/21/2023)
Podcasts
The Equity Impact of Understanding Academic Language (01/29/2023)
Phenomenal Spotlight: What Is Speak Agent? (Part 1) (09/10/2022)
