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Actively Learn is an award-winning digital curriculum that drives student engagement and equity through deeper learning. Our flexible features and comprehensive, standards-aligned resources empower teachers to deepen students’ comprehension in ELA, social studies, and science. Actively Learn is part of the Achieve3000 suite of digital education solutions.
Overview
Location
United States, Washington, Seattle
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2012
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 11
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| May 19, 2020 | A New “New Deal” For Education: Top 10 Policy Moves For States In The COVID 2.0 Era | KRANJ, SLOVENIA - 2020/05/18: A primary school teacher wearing a face mask as preventive measure ... [+] teaches a first year class that has been reduced in number of pupils for safety. Pupils of first three years of primary schools as well... |
| Jan 31, 2020 | GeekWire 200 update reveals trending startups in edtech, consumer tech, B.C. and more | There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software town, some of the nation’s leading consu... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Teachers Love How This Online Reading Platform Fosters Deeper Learning | Like many educators, Christy Stanley wants her students to practice close reading and deep learning. But she is up against a far more seductive habit. “We have a generation of skimmers and scanners because these kids are always on Facebook,... |
| Oct 2, 2018 | Achieve3000 Acquires Literacy Startup Actively Learn | Stuart Udell has overseen nearly two dozen mergers and acquisitions across his career in the education industry, which spans stints at Penn Foster, Catapult Learning and K12 Inc. Now, just a few months into his current role as CEO at Achiev... |
| Oct 5, 2016 | CommonLit wins $3.9 million grant to help students master reading skills | A tech nonprofit called CommonLit won a $3.89 million grant from the Department of Education to develop software and content that helps students read well enough to graduate from high school and succeed in their careers or college. The gran... |
| Jun 27, 2016 | How Do Edtech Products Rate on Safety? Common Sense Education Platform Names the Good and the Not-So-Good | Check out the new Common Sense K12 Edtech Privacy Evaluation Platform. Here’s a mismatch of a statistic: back in 2013, a Fordham Law School study found that 95 percent of districts used cloud services for various reasons, including data mi... |
| May 6, 2015 | LightSail Raises $3.5 Million for Tablet-Based Libraries | English language arts curriculum is a competitive industry in the edtech world, and today, NYC-based literacy tool LightSail announced a $3.5 million round to further its efforts to take that market by storm. Led by Scott Cook, co-founder a... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Teacher Relationship-Fatigue Extends Beyond the Classroom | “Relationships” are a hot topic. Social media is all about streamlining and scaling social and business relationships; social relationships are studied closely for their effects on psychology and health, and “building customer relationships... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | How We Incorporate Teacher Feedback | Actively Learn was built with teachers in mind in 2012. And since Day One, we have been completely obsessed with learning how we can make a better tool to improve close reading and student learning from a text. As a update, Actively Learn h... |
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FAQ about Actively Learn
When was Actively Learn founded?
Actively Learn was founded in 2012.
What has the press written about Actively Learn?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Actively Learn, among them “A New “New Deal” For Education: Top 10 Policy Moves For States In The COVID 2.0 Era” (May 19, 2020) and “GeekWire 200 update reveals trending startups in edtech, consumer tech, B.C. and more” (Jan 31, 2020).
Is Actively Learn still active?
Yes, Actively Learn is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 24, 2022.