A recent post from MindShift, “The Rise of Educator-Entrepreneurs: Bringing Classroom Experience to Ed-Tech”, got me thinking. What are all the educational tools and companies that have been created by teachers?

I did some research and put together the following list:

• Adam Bellow of eduClipper
• Alex Grodd of BetterLesson
• Aliya Bhatia, Ana María de Vries & Grace Landrieu of Dash4Teachers
• Benjamin Berte of Socrative
• Daniel Yoo & Justin Su of Goalbook
• Eric Westendorf of LearnZillion
• Farbood Nivi of Grockit
• James Sanders & Esther Wojcicki of ClassBadges
• James Willcox of Schoolzilla
• Jeff Bradbury of TeacherCast
• Jeff Scheur of NoRedInk
• Jennifer Medbery of Kickboard
• Kasey Brown of DigitWhiz
• Lisa Lantz of FluencyFinder
• Mandela Scumacher-Hodge of Tioki
• Matt Hardy of Kidblog
• Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo
• Sarah Chou of Chalk
• Tess Brustein of SmarterCookie

I also made this list into an edshelf collection, “Teacher-Created Tools”, so that I could add to it over time. Follow the collection to get updates on the list.

And if I’m missing any tools or companies, please let me know!

- Mike Lee, Cofounder of edshelf