Senior Director, Podsie Innovation Lab

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Josh is the Founder and CEO of Podsie, a free, personalized, and automated learning tool for teachers that helps their students remember what they've learned by leveraging key learning science strategies such as: retrieval practice, spacing, and personalized review. Josh and Podsie are joining Teaching Lab as part of the Innovation Studio, one of the pillars of our new strategic plan. We look forward to Josh continuing to build the capacity of Podsie through additional development and user testing, while also increasing Teaching Lab's capacity to integrate learning science into our educator PL.

Josh began his career as a math teacher in the Dallas/Ft Worth area. He learned how to code at App Academy, and went on to work there as an Instructor and Software Engineer. Josh earned a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas, Austin, and an MA in International Comparative Education from Stanford. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two dogs.

Josh enjoys regularly playing: trumpet, basketball, and board games (currently Everdell, Parks, and Wingspan). He loves burritos in all forms (regular burritos, breakfast burritos, sushirritos, etc.).