Name

Teaching Lab

Legal name

Teaching Lab

Website

https://teachinglab.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Donations: Teaching Lab operates as a nonprofit organization, with 100% of donations going directly to professional learning services for teachers. The organization accepts donations through its website, including Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) from Fidelity, Schwab, BNY-Mellon, and gifts of stock and appreciated securities. This is the primary revenue stream supporting operations.
2. Foundation Support: Teaching Lab receives funding from major foundations including Carnegie Corporation of New York, Overdeck Family Foundation, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Robin Hood, and Chamberlin Family Foundation. These institutional funders support the organization's mission to shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Teaching Lab delivers research-driven, curriculum-aligned professional learning and instructional coaching to K-12 teachers through partnerships with school districts and state education agencies, using its evidence-based Head, Heart, and Habits model. The organization also operates Teaching Lab Studio, an AI innovation arm building tools such as the Writing Pathway that generate curriculum-tailored writing practice and multilingual lessons for educators.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Curriculum-Based Professional Learning Services Research-driven, curriculum-aligned, customized professional learning delivered to K-12 teachers and instructional coaches through partnerships with school districts and state education agencies. Built on the evidence-based Head, Heart, and Habits model, services include teacher professional learning, instructional coaching, cycles of inquiry, and system-level capacity building.
• Teaching Lab Studio Innovation arm of Teaching Lab that incubates AI-powered projects and tools to help teachers create lesson plans, help instructional coaches deliver timely feedback, and provide individualized support for students in analytic and writing skills.
• Writing Pathway AI-backed tool that makes high-quality writing instruction accessible across content areas. Educators input the text they are teaching and grade level, and the tool produces sample lessons tailored to any curriculum or content area. It also translates lessons into multiple languages to support English learners.
• Multilingual Learner Action Guide for Literacy Web-based digital platform providing research-based essential actions, instructional strategies, and resources to enhance multilingual learner instruction. Organized into pillars covering curriculum, culturally responsive education, assessment, and professional learning, with mindset shifts and best practice strategies.
• Teacher Advisory Board (TAB) Community Community of educators, coaches, and school leaders who collaborate directly with Teaching Lab to shape materials and professional development. Members test and validate tools, provide feedback, and build advocacy around Teaching Lab's offerings.

Quantifiable outcome

• 32+ percentage point improvement in instructional practice for teachers receiving direct-to-teacher coaching
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Relay Graduate School of EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025National education nonprofits Teaching Lab and Relay Graduate School of Education announced plans to join together as one organization. Dr. Sarah Johnson, current CEO of Teaching Lab, will become the next president and CEO of Relay on August 4, 2025. The integration, pending regulatory approvals, is a strategic step to strengthen how both organizations invest in and support educators nationwide. The combined organization will form a unified entity grounded in a shared mission to dramatically improve teaching and learning. Relay serves more than 4,000 students, teachers, and leaders across more than 250 school systems, while Teaching Lab serves more than 10,000 teachers each year across 50+ school systems.
• AnthropicflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeaching Lab partnered with Anthropic on an AI benchmarking project that brought educators and AI researchers together around highly technical work. By the end of the collaboration, a Teaching Lab educator was a co-author on the resulting paper, which won an award. This partnership exemplifies Teaching Lab's approach to treating educators as intellectual partners rather than end users.
• Google DeepMindminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRepresentatives from Google DeepMind participated as speakers/presenters in the Stanford CS293/EDUC473 class on Empowering Educators Via Language Technology, alongside TeachingLab and other edtech companies.
• AmplifyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdTech company represented at the Stanford class on language models in education, discussing AI tools and their development.
• Schoolhouse.worldminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdTech organization represented at the Stanford class on language models in education, contributing perspectives on AI in K-12 classrooms.
• TeachFXminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdTech company focused on classroom feedback tools, represented at the Stanford class on language models in education.
• Writing PathwaycoreTechnology or IntegrationAI-backed writing instruction tool developed by Teaching Lab and deployed in Delaware and other partnerships to support consistent, high-quality writing instruction across content areas.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• TNTP: TNTP (The New Teacher Project) is one of the largest U.S. teacher professional learning and instructional support nonprofits, partnering with school districts to improve instruction — a closely comparable mission, customer base, and service model to Teaching Lab.
• UnboundEd: UnboundEd provides standards-aligned professional learning and instructional coaching to K-12 educators with a focus on educational equity — overlapping directly with Teaching Lab's curriculum-based PD approach and target audience.
• Relay Graduate School of Education: Relay GSE trains teachers and school leaders across 250+ school systems and is Teaching Lab's announced merger partner; its graduate programs and leadership development services closely mirror Teaching Lab's PD/coaching offerings.
• Learning Forward: Learning Forward is the leading professional association for educator professional learning, providing standards, consulting, and PD services to districts and states — directly comparable in mission and customer base.
• ASCD: ASCD is a long-standing educator association delivering professional development, publications, and capacity-building services to teachers and school leaders — overlapping with Teaching Lab's PD, content, and Knowledge Hub offerings.

Emerging players

• New Leaders: New Leaders develops school leaders through training and coaching programs; its leader-development work is adjacent to Teaching Lab's instructional coaching focus and serves the same district customer base.
• MagicSchool for Teachers: MagicSchool is an AI-powered lesson planning and teacher productivity platform for K-12 educators — a direct overlap with Teaching Lab Studio's AI tools (Writing Pathway, Coteach) targeting the same teacher workflow.
• Khan Academy (Khanmigo): Khan Academy's Khanmigo is an AI tutor and teacher assistant used widely in K-12; it competes with Teaching Lab Studio's AI offerings in the educator-AI workflow space and reaches a comparable district audience.

Broad incumbents

• WestEd: WestEd is a large, established education research and professional services nonprofit serving districts and states nationwide — comparable as a broader education services incumbent in the same PD/curriculum support category.

Others

• EdReports: EdReports provides independent curriculum reviews and resources used by districts adopting new instructional materials; it is a complementary enabler in the curriculum-aligned PD ecosystem where Teaching Lab operates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TeachingLabHQ
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@teachinglab
• Facebookfacebook.com/teachinglabhq
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/teaching-lab
• Instagraminstagram.com/teachinglabhq

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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