$1.5M Innovation Fund to Support Your Teacher Observation and Collaboration Initiatives

Edthena is introducing a $1.5-million Innovation Fund to support schools and districts with their teacher observation and collaboration initiatives.

In 2021, we celebrated 10 years of Edthena. As we enter our next decade of impact, we’re excited to partner with new school districts to back their video-powered professional learning. Whether that’s through video coaching, video teacher observations, or more, we’re here to support you.

Provide more targeted support with teacher observation

Much is on school and district leaders’ minds. Teacher burnout. Learning loss. Students’ social and emotional well-being.

District administrators are constantly presented with enormous challenges AND enormous opportunities for school growth.

How will you build new and better systems to drive student outcomes? How will you ensure that teachers are fully prepared and supported? How can you make teacher observation easier?

The Edthena video collaboration platform can help you in a variety of ways:

• Streamlining feedback to teachers with video observations
• Creating opportunities for more teacher-teacher collaboration
• Scaling best practices and “what works” examples across the district
• Flexible, asynchronous learning that’s still high quality and high impact

We’re excited to support your work in building a next-generation professional learning system within your district.

Funding Edthena with the Innovation Fund

Supporting your Edthena initiatives is the goal of the Innovation Fund. It works as a matching grant, where the amount of your teacher professional development grant depends on the size of your district.

Wondering how you can fund your portion of an Edthena adoption? You can use any of your existing state or federal funding (ESSER, ESSA, Title I, etc) for your portion. We have a detailed funding alignment document we’d be happy to provide.

We want to help you ensure that you create systems that can be sustained for many years to come. That’s why our Innovation Fund is designed to support teacher observation implementations for up to three academic years.

Applying for the Innovation Fund is an easy two-step process

Interested in applying for these funds? It’s as easy as 1-2 … and that’s it!

First, contact [email protected] to receive your total fund eligibility amount and the application link.

Second, you’ll fill out our application form, which asks for one-paragraph answers to the following questions:

• Present a summary of how you imagine Edthena will be utilized.
• What is the current usage level of video observation and video analysis within your teacher professional learning experiences? (No prior usage required)
• What is the procurement/contract process required for a grant-matched purchase of this size?

The next review of applications will be on November 30, 2024, and then on the 30th of each following month until all funds are awarded. Please note that the Innovation Fund grant covers a portion of the cost of implementing your Edthena initiatives (not the entire purchase).

Ready to take your teacher observation video initiatives to the next step? Send an email to [email protected] to get started.