The Graide Network connects K-12 teachers with qualified teaching assistants to grade and provide feedback on student work online. Feedback is one of the most powerful instructional tools that teachers have, so we help them give them more of it to their students.
The Graide Network was founded in 2015 by Blair Pircon and Elizabeth Nell, and has won numerous awards for being a promising and impactful education technology company. In 2018, we closed a $1 million seed round, and started growing the team. Currently, the team comprises 9 full-time members. We work with teachers at over 100 schools across the country and employ several hundred college students as part-time grading assistants.
You can read more about our company on our website, blog, or in the news. We are a mission-driven education technology company, so if education is your passion, read on.
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Technology is what allowed us to triple graded assignment volume without hiring more full time staff in 2017 and then we did it again in 2019. Technology continues to help us improve the speed, accuracy, and quality of our grading and feedback. The tools we build directly impact the grades that students receive on their papers, and they help teachers see how their class is doing in real-time. All this means that our software has to work, and it has to be reliable, tested, and performant.
- Frontend: Typescript, Angular, Bootstrap
- Backend: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Redis, NGINX
- Continuous Integration: Docker, Codeship
- Production Deployments: Azure, Linux, Forge
See our high level application architecture document for more detail.
Karl Hughes - After helping build the first engineering team at Packback, Karl joined the The Graide Network in 2016 as the company's first engineer and CTO. His technical interests include automated testing, microservices, Docker, and speaking at conferences. In addition to his work at The Graide Network, he enjoys reading, running, traveling, and spending time with his family.
Hollie Lambert - Hollie joined The Graide Network in 2019 after completing a selective teaching fellowship at Fullstack Academy, a top-ranked coding bootcamp. Hollie graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a degree in Women’s Studies. She made her career change into tech so she could build meaningful products that have a positive impact on the world.
Alyssa Nickow - Alyssa joined The Graide Network in 2020 from NextCapital. Before changing careers, she taught middle school mathematics then participated in New Leaders' Aspiring Principals Program and became a school administrator. In late 2017, she completed Coding Dojo's bootcamp and an apprenticeship with The Difference Engine, where she now serves on the Board of Directors. Alyssa is passionate about education and the fight for educational equity.
Read more about the three-step hiring process we have at The Graide Network here. No high-pressure whiteboarding sessions here!