Edia Learning
Edia is a math platform that guarantees better scores on state exams. We worked with 85 school districts to improve student outcomes, and delivered positive outcomes for all of them.
As the company's sole designer, I designed our student, teacher, and administrator products and supported the design needs of our sales and marketing teams.
When schools shut down for COVID, students missed an entire year of math.
The thing is, you can't just skip a year of math and move onto the next. You need to learn how to add and subtract before you can solve an equation. As a result, 2022 was the biggest drop in US test scores in 50 years*. At Lee County, a school district we worked with, math scores dropped by -44%.
Even in 2024, schools were still struggling to recover from COVID.
* Reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
But using Edia, schools recover and exceed their pre-pandemic test scores.
Hillside Public Schools in New Jersey, a school district with 9% of their students passing state assessments, saw that number rise to 17% within 6 months of piloting Edia. Just 1 in 10 of their English Language Learners passed state assessments. After using Edia, all of them did.
In Texas, the average growth on 2023's end of year exams was -2%. Celina, one of our partner districts, saw +23% growth. The principal told us he was worried the state would think he was lying when reporting the numbers.
On average, districts that used Edia went from +2% growth in test scores to +12-15% in just one year.
Edia gives teachers time and data.
Homework, in theory, gives students practice and teachers data on which students need help. But the reality is that students cheat because they get no feedback, and grading homework takes valuable time from other things that teachers need to do.
Edia automates homework for teachers: the entire process of creating, grading, and analyzing results. Teachers save hours on grading, and see data on which students need more help.
Students get immediate feedback and can fix mistakes as they happen. They're not punished for mistakes, which removes most of the incentive to cheat.
85+ school districts depended on Edia.
By 2025, 85 school districts had contracts with Edia to improve math scores. Our team ran trainings and continuous support to make sure teachers could rely on Edia to do their job.
As a product designer, I worked closely with our customer success team to fix issues and continually evolve the product to meet the needs of teachers and students. I say this with full sincerity: it gave me energy every day to know that my work was directly impacting the future of each student's math education.
From day 1, the founders of Edia understood the importance of great design. And I'm proud that my work was a clear differentiator in a crowded market.
Teachers frequently wrote that they loved how clean and simple the product was. Given the hundreds of other things that they had to juggle and learn, Edia's simplicity was essential to quick adoption and minimal training. The clean design extended to the student side as well, which was essential as all the data and analytics depended on students being able to show their work effortlessly on the computer.
Over five years, Edia grew from a small pilot into a product that 85 school districts relied on every day, and that number has kept growing since I left. Getting to design it from the very first screen, and to see it change how students learn math, is still some of the most meaningful work I've done.
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