WHO WE ARE
We are a group of parents, teachers and business consultants that heard consistent complaint from friends and colleagues, and our own lived experience - "It's (IEPs) a lot to manage". Between scheduling meetings with the right team at the right cadence, remembering to tell the team an update for the child, seeing individual needs amongst other students/children and other priorities, acknowledging and celebrating milestones, etc., it can be a lot. We get it.
We decided to do something to lift the burden and make IEP and goal achieving fun and easy!
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We understand that teachers wear many hats beyond teaching that cause significant administrative burden. Teachers want to provide the best education for each student; it’s challenging to both teach content and manage ‘the room’ in terms of individual needs. Managing IEPs is clunky and cumbersome. Some parents shared that they have chosen to go to a single provider family because of the desire to support a child and the time/energy it takes with the current system. School counselors and teachers have minimal real-time understanding of changes with medical care, home happenings, or other things that impact a child’s readiness to learn.
Our application is a connector - connecting parents, school administrators, teachers, social workers/school psychologists, and eventually external medical professionals to manage the student’s care. Our application is a full-service support tool to improve real-time transparency, ultimately improving teacher/parent experience and child outcomes.
Our application automates IEP goal management by tracking goal achievement and summarizing child interventions so teachers can refresh their perspective of ‘who’s in the class’ every day or with each class change.
Our application tracks students’ readiness to learn as an additional student insight.


KAITLIN HOMAN
Co-Founder & Partner
Kaitlin boasts a decade of experience working with public school systems and governments developing innovative models that improve student outcomes and enhance the quality of education. She has seen first hand that better support means happier and healthier kids and wants to continue to foster this. Her background sets her up to think thoroughly about the needs of teachers, administrators, and other collaborators in child education.
ALEXANDRA SUAZO
Co-Founder and Partner
Alex is a mom, and has compassion for all parents carry the burden of success for their children along with their jobs. She wants to see each child succeed in their highest purpose and has the background to help make it possible! With a decade of experience tackling all sorts of business challenges, including building revenue models, streamlining operations, building commercial strategies and more, she's capable to build this business.


MIKALA POPOVEC
Partnerships
A former teacher and enthusiastic supporter of families, Mikala knows from experience the challenges teachers face. She has advocated for teachers during development, to build a product that would benefit them. She is a natural relationship builder and loves working with our prospective and current school partnerships.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
We’re Hiring
At Tend Education, we hire top talent to keep our business growing and thriving. We work with an incredible team of individuals, and are always looking to expand the Tend Education family. If you think you have what it takes to work with us, we’d love to hear from you.
Email careers@tendedu.com to see if you’re the right fit.