friEdTech

Amy Mayer, Founder and CEO

Founder & CEO, Amy Mayer, reflects on the company’s ongoing work, “We could not be more proud of the work we’ve done with these teachers and administrators. I think the number one thing that sets us apart is that we care how the people who learn with us feel about their learning. By initially forming relationships with the educators in Mississippi, we have been able to provide professional development experiences that engage teachers first in their own learning, which ultimately increases student outcomes.”

While the project in Mississippi is their largest and most recent, friEdTech has established itself since its founding over a decade ago as a unique voice helping educators navigate the modern classroom and is already loved by tech savvy teachers across the country for providing high-quality professional development that leverages effective, pedagogy-based solutions.

In the past 4 years, friEdTech has developed a cutting-edge asynchronous learning platform, friEdOnline, which has amassed an enrollment of over 26,000 users from across the world. friEd’s approach to online professional development is the result of their own experiences with often boring, rarely impactful online learning modules they each encountered as practicing educators themselves.

Part of what makes friEdTech unique is their on-going attentiveness to issues facing educators today; for example, schools are reporting an increase in disruptive classroom behaviors coupled with a loss of learning. In response, friEdTech has launched an online course, “Rock the Classroom.” Their course author, a licensed therapist and career educator, developed the content to help teachers understand the fundamentals of human behavior, enabling and providing them with ways to decrease undesirable behaviors through research-based strategies.

We could not be more proud of the work we’ve done with these teachers and administrators. I think the number one thing that sets us apart is that we care how the people who learn with us feel about their learning. By initially forming relationships with the educators in Mississippi, we have been able to provide professional development experiences that engage teachers first in their own learning, which ultimately increases student outcomes

friEdTech has differentiated itself from other players in the industry by placing emphasis on the user experience. They work hard to ensure teachers enjoy learning with them and can immediately integrate what they've learned into their classrooms. As they often say, “Training is just where to click, professional development includes why you should.”