Awards, Competitions, and Product Certifications
2025
Co-Design Product Certification in Partnership with Kansas City Public Schools
2024
- Winner of District Administration’s Top Ed Tech Products in the Curriculum and Instructional Technology Category (Startup)
2022
Category Winner of Excellence in Equity: Best Support for English Learners- Equity & Access Magazine 2022 Excellence in Equity Awards (Feb. March Issue, page 65)
- Finalist for the Tech Edvocate Awards Best Langauge Learning App or Tool
2021
Learner Variability Certified Product
A Winner of the 2020-2021 Tools Competition: Mid-Range Prize
2020
2016
A Winner of the NewSchools Ignite ELL Challenge
2015
Small Business Innovation Research awardee from these agencies:
- National Science Foundation (NSF 1632488)
- US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (ED-IES-15C0027)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS 1R43ES031433-01)
Press and Media Coverage
Press Releases and Pick-ups
Prince George’s County Public Schools’ Students Achieve Significant Improvements in Middle Grades Math with Speak Agent
Speak Agent Introduces Level Up Formative Assessment to Help Students Check Math and Science Content Knowledge
Archived Media Coverage
The Learning Counsel
- New Strategies to Reverse Declining Math Scores, Op-Ed (July 17, 2023)
Digital Promise
- Integrating Research-based Strategies into the Design of Educational Technology
- to Support All Learners (04/27/2023)
The Learning Counsel
- App of the Week (03/13/2023)
Leanlab Education
- Speak Agent and the Edtech Research Journey (02/24/2023)
Class Tech Tips
- How to Learn Math and Science with Language Support (02/22/2023)
eSchool News
Podcasts
- The Equity Impact of Understanding Academic Language (01/29/2023)
- Phenomenal Spotlight: What Is Speak Agent? (Part 1) (09/10/2022)
