Glean Explainer

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  1. welcome to glean education.
  2. We're so excited to meet you at the R D
  3. I. Before we do.
  4. I wanted to tell you a little bit about who
  5. we are, what we do, who we serve and what
  6. our clients are saying about us.
  7. Let's begin.
  8. Our work began as an advocacy journey that started nearly
  9. 40 years ago.
  10. My name is Jessica Hammond, and I'm founder and CEO
  11. of Glean Education.
  12. This is me on the steps of our home with
  13. my husband and our four kids, one of whom plays
  14. a large role in the creation of the company that
  15. we're here to talk about today.
  16. But the work that sparked the vision behind Glean can
  17. really be traced back to my dad, Emerson Dickman.
  18. He is a special education attorney who became very involved
  19. in supporting students with learning disabilities while advocating for my
  20. brother, who had dyslexia in the eighties.
  21. Over the next several decades, he traveled the world advocating
  22. for students with dyslexia and eventually becoming the president of
  23. the International Dyslexia Association and creating the definition for dyslexia.
  24. That's in most state laws today.
  25. So when my own son was diagnosed with dyslexia in
  26. 2014. I figured the path paved by my father's advocacy
  27. work would make my son's road easier than my brothers.
  28. But that was not at all the case.
  29. I realized that even 30 years later there was just
  30. a ZX much lack of knowledge among teachers, as there
  31. had been when my parents were advocating for my brother
  32. as a teacher myself, I set out to search for
  33. training that was low cost inaccessible, and I realized that
  34. there was very little on the market to support teachers,
  35. schools and districts with widespread high quality training.
  36. Hearing my past work experience as an online instructional designer,
  37. university instructor and publishing professional, I created Glean Education, an
  38. online professional development company aimed at boosting teacher access to
  39. high quality training that improves student outcomes.
  40. I tapped my father's network of experts and started building
  41. the first courses.
  42. Let's take a deeper dive into what we dio.
  43. We aim to help District's improves student outcomes through online
  44. teacher training and coaching.
  45. We like to think about ourselves as a district training
  46. partner. We provide accessible training free of the constraints of
  47. geography and capacity.
  48. This is particularly important for our rural and urban district
  49. clients who often have a difficult time finding high quality
  50. training for their staff.
  51. Our work is low cost compared to in person P.
  52. D. And we make sure that our engagement isn't just
  53. one and done our training as continuous either year long
  54. or multi year engagements focused on reaching district learning goals
  55. and maximizing student impact.
  56. We customized training to meet district needs because no two
  57. district's learning goals are alike.
  58. We offer flexible formats including online, self guided on demand,
  59. train, the trainer or even synchronised co port based learning,
  60. depending on what the district prefers.
  61. Our online training began as a simple idea.
  62. Trained teachers on the basics of dyslexia and supporting struggling
  63. readers. But very quickly we realized that district wanted Mawr
  64. about literacy, obstruction, intervention, using data to inform instruction.
  65. We realized if we don't provide a blanket of teacher
  66. knowledge and understanding of instructional best practices, we don't see
  67. results. So we've continued on that path and when we
  68. get requests from districts to support their training, we create
  69. coursework based on it.
  70. We hire subject matter experts in the field, and we
  71. create courses to meet district needs.
  72. One recent suite, of course, is, we've added is remote
  73. instruction topics in online course design, accessibility, instruction delivery and
  74. teaching literacy online.
  75. We've also started building a suite of courses on trauma
  76. informed instructional practices, anti racist teaching, migrant education and culturally
  77. and linguistically responsive teaching practices, all which we feel are
  78. critical to supporting each and every student in the classroom
  79. successfully. We also began seeing the need to support teachers
  80. more thoroughly through Web based online coaching.
  81. We got lots of requests for teachers after a training
  82. was done to talk about their actual practices in the
  83. classroom. And so we started thinking through what a Web
  84. based coaching experience through Blaine education would be like.
  85. And this is what we'd like to talk about with
  86. you in our panel discussion at E.
  87. R. D.
  88. I were kind of thinking about this as becoming a
  89. teacher thought partner.
  90. We would like to explore barriers to instruction, specifically literacy
  91. instruction with teachers to set instructional goals, observe their lessons,
  92. provide feedback in support and help them utilize their data.
  93. Teoh improve their student performance and insurer that they're impacting
  94. student literacy.
  95. We plan on doing this shoulder to shoulder coaching all
  96. online. Like our other content, we also consider ourselves a
  97. publisher of high quality content for educators.
  98. We have podcasts, articles, we publish expert interviews and we
  99. publish a magazine on the platform medium to make sure
  100. that we have tons of content that's high quality and
  101. available to supplement our trainings as we learn more about
  102. what a district needs and weaken tailor to their interests.
  103. So who do we serve always kind of serve it
  104. all. We work with teachers, schools, districts and even state
  105. departments of education to make sure that this high quality
  106. training is accessible.
  107. So we're really proud of our feedback from our schools.
  108. We get a lot of comments about teachers loving the
  109. flexibility of our trainings and feeling really supported as they
  110. go through the process.
  111. And that's important to us because our training is online.
  112. It's really important for teachers, schools and district's going through
  113. our training that they know that there are people behind
  114. this online content that are supporting them as they go.
  115. I'll quickly click on days and feel free to read
  116. them as I provide a little bit of silence for
  117. you, too, Read a few months ago, my son turned
  118. to me and said, Mom, how many teachers have taken
  119. glean education courses now?
  120. And I told him we had just hit our 7000
  121. teacher. He thought for a minute and said, And so
  122. you created these trainings because of me, Kind of right.
  123. And I told him, Well, yeah, I did.
  124. I wanted teachers to know more about how to support
  125. you and how to support students that think like you.
  126. And he said, Well, if my dyslexia is helping teachers
  127. understand what it is and how to teach reading and
  128. how to support kids like me, then even though dyslexia
  129. is really hard to deal with, it's all worth it.
  130. We're really proud of the work we're doing to make
  131. high quality P D.
  132. Accessible and improves student outcomes in the process.
  133. So thank you for taking the time to learn about
  134. us. And we really look forward to meeting you at
  135. E r D.
  136. I take care