Edtech companies create the tools and materials that help people learn. There are roles in sales, marketing, and customer success — often working directly with school districts, higher-ed administrators, or HR and training leaders.
If you’re technical, there’s always demand for engineers, designers, and product managers to build products. If your background is in education or curriculum, you’ll find opportunities to design learning experiences, assessments, and content that drive real impact in classrooms and workplaces.
Collaborative Classroom is a nonprofit that creates research based literacy and social emotional learning programs for K–12 schools. Its core products include SIPPS for phonics and decoding, Being a Reader and Being a Writer for early literacy and writing, Making Meaning for comprehension, and Caring School Community for SEL. Collaborative Classroom has reached over 10 million students and hundreds of thousands of educators.
EdVoice is a nonprofit that works to change state education policy for students from low income communities. EdVoice focuses on lobbying lawmakers and the Governor’s office to pass evidence based laws, with a strong emphasis on early literacy, the Science of Reading, and teacher quality. The organization also produces research through its affiliated institute and mobilizes a large parent and educator network to support policies that reduce achievement gaps.
Ensemble Learning is a nonprofit that helps schools serve multilingual learners and English language learners. Ensemble Learning provides professional development, teacher coaching, leadership coaching, and support for dual language programs. The organization has partnered with more than 120 schools and school districts.
New Teacher Center is a national nonprofit that helps school systems improve student learning by strengthening teachers and school leaders. It works with districts and states to provide mentoring, instructional coaching, and leadership development, with a strong focus on supporting new teachers and reducing turnover.
Teach Plus is a nonprofit that helps experienced teachers lead change in education policy and classroom practice. It runs fellowships and school partnerships that train teachers to work with policymakers, lead professional learning, also improves literacy and math learning.