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For adult English language learners working to improve their English skills and confidence for professional reasons, how effective is one-on-one online language tutoring? This question was central to a 2025 research partnership between Leanlab Education and Preply, a global language learning platform.
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For adult English language learners working to improve their English skills and confidence for professional reasons, how effective is one-on-one online language tutoring? This question was central to a 2025 research partnership between Leanlab Education and Preply, a global language learning platform.
The two education R&D organizations will collaborate to strengthen research infrastructure, expand access to evidence, and ensure that insights from the study of emerging tools reach educators and innovators.
Does consistent use of Quill.org translate into measurable improvements in student writing skills? Quill enlisted Leanlab to examine this question through a large-scale, post-hoc study tracking outcomes for over 100,000 students across 2,600 schools.
For adult English language learners working to improve their English skills and confidence for professional reasons, how effective is one-on-one online language tutoring? This question was central to a 2025 research partnership between Leanlab Education and Preply, a global language learning platform.
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Seismic shifts in the federal policy landscape and the progression of AI have left our education research and edtech communities bobbing, weaving, and strategy-refreshing our way through 2025. It’s within this context that Leanlab CEO Katie Boody Adorno returns to this 2023 piece. She reflects on how much has changed in the education landscape since then, how prescient some of her predictions proved to be, and how urgent others have become.
In an article for Edtech Insiders, Leanlab CEO Katie Boody Adorno discusses the importance of inclusive innovation in edtech—particularly with the rapid development and adoption of AI technologies— and how organizations are collaborating to transform education R&D to better support educators and students.
In an environment where top-down federal regulation demanding rigorous evidence of edtech is unlikely, we must work to leverage market forces for good. To do so, we need to work to find the middle ground between solution providers' natural go-to-market inclinations and revenue obligations and R&D; where do those two intersect? School Systems and Educators.
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Leanlab Education recognizes companies that demonstrate commitment to research-based practices and user-centered design through our badge programs. This spring and summer we awarded badges to companies that have shown dedication to evidence-based development and meaningful user feedback integration.
The best founders are embracing the idea that edtech should augment the good work schools are doing. They understand that to produce outsized results for school communities, they need to develop products in partnership with school communities.
We believe that any successful venture in education must contribute to the ultimate outcome of empowering learners to navigate and respond to the needs of an uncertain future.
In order to edtech company’s to prepare for long-term market trends, it’s more important than ever that they start conducting research and collecting evidence.
Research
For adult English language learners working to improve their English skills and confidence for professional reasons, how effective is one-on-one online language tutoring? This question was central to a 2025 research partnership between Leanlab Education and Preply, a global language learning platform.
Does consistent use of Quill.org translate into measurable improvements in student writing skills? Quill enlisted Leanlab to examine this question through a large-scale, post-hoc study tracking outcomes for over 100,000 students across 2,600 schools.
For adult English language learners working to improve their English skills and confidence for professional reasons, how effective is one-on-one online language tutoring? This question was central to a 2025 research partnership between Leanlab Education and Preply, a global language learning platform.
The most powerful innovations in education emerge when researchers, developers, and educators work side by side. That's why Leanlab Education is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund on an ambitious research initiative exploring how generative AI can transform math tutoring for K-12 students.
Leanlab Education recognizes companies that demonstrate commitment to research-based practices and user-centered design through our badge programs. This spring and summer we awarded badges to companies that have shown dedication to evidence-based development and meaningful user feedback integration.
At Leanlab Education, we believe that the most transformational education innovations emerge when educators, students, and families are at the center of product development. This belief guided our recent research partnership with Barbershop Books, Inc. to pilot their Reading So Lit® platform for PK-3, a first-of-its-kind learning personalization solution designed to support reading identity development, a critical gap in early literacy education.
