How We Started

Edthena was born from real-world classroom experiences. As a science teacher in St. Louis, Mo., founder and CEO Adam Geller wanted to be great for his students but there was no one in his building with science expertise. He did know someone at the local science museum, but that person could never come to his classroom.

After leaving the classroom, while working on the national strategy team of an education nonprofit, Adam started to realize that the challenges he faced as a teacher were common among most schools, districts, and teacher education programs. We know the best way to help teachers is to analyze actual classroom teaching, and it’s hard to have the right person in the right place at the right time.

In 2011, Adam was named a Kauffman Foundation Education Ventures Fellow and took the leap and start Edthena. In 2012, he joined forces with Dave Weldon, CTO, to start building the version of Edthena people know and love today.

Company Leadership

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Adam Geller, CEO

After leaving the classroom, Adam joined the national strategy team of Teach For America where he helped design a technology platform to improve training new teachers. Adam is a recent Education Ventures fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and also the founder of Teach For Us.

David Weldon, CTO

A seasoned CTO who brings over twenty years of professional experience ranging from natural language processing to web development. His previous startup, Sendori, was sold to Ask.com. David has a masters degree in computer engineering and an MBA.

Edthena Education Advisory Board

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Deborah Ball

Dean Emeritus, University of Michigan School of Education

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Jeff Weltzer

Founder, Transcend Education

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Christina Brodbeck

First Designer, YouTube

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Daniel Kearns

Former Chief Architect, Dreambox Learning

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Gailene Nelson

Director of Product Management, Pearson

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Eliot Levinson

Founder, BLEgroup

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Ron Fortune

Former Chairman, Education.com

Careers With Edthena

We're working daily to transform the process of online collaboration and coaching for educators. If you're passionate about making a difference in the world, you might be a great fit for our team. We post open positions on:

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