LessonLoop began as a strong vision from its founder: a loop that teachers move through to plan, teach, assess and grow. The challenge was turning that vision into a product that a teacher could open and immediately understand what to do next.

I used my experience as a classroom teacher and EdTech designer to translate the founder’s broad concepts into concrete teacher workflows, information architecture and UI. I also owned the product strategy, roadmap and prioritization, balancing what the founder wanted to build with teacher needs and what a small startup could realistically deliver.

I designed a unified lesson planner that handles four different starting scenarios within one experience, with AI responses streaming in as they are generated and the teacher’s own uploaded materials used to inform the plan. I built both the planner UI and the API endpoints behind it on a serverless back end (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and Bedrock).

LessonLoop’s surveys capture how students and educators are doing. I redesigned how those results are shown to teachers and leaders, including class profiles and trends over time, question-level results grouped by what each measure is about, reflection logs, and CSV exports for teachers and admins who want to work with the raw data.

For district and school leaders, I designed and built a new admin portal for managing districts, schools, users and accommodations, replacing the legacy admin pages that were spread across the product.

With v3 launched, I’m now designing a teacher Home page - a cross-class landing page shown on login that is separate from the single-class Class Hub. After reviewing options with stakeholders, we’re moving forward with a hero-led direction that shows returning teachers where they left off, and gives new teachers minimal text and two clear places to start: Plan or Assess.