🏫 Classroom tools
Edthena AI Coach
By Edthena (R3 Collaboratives). Visit Edthena AI Coach
Desk research from the maker's own pages. Not yet tried by us. Checked 2026-10-24.
AI Coach is a coaching tool for K-12 teachers, not students. A teacher records one of their own lessons, uploads the video, and gets written feedback by email within minutes, pointing to moments in the lesson, on a topic they chose from 110 options such as checking for understanding or math discussion. Replying keeps the coaching conversation going. Children appear in the classroom videos, so it touches student privacy even though kids never log in.
Our take: A teacher-growth tool; parents should only care about how their school handles classroom recording consent.
| Ages it suits | for teachers; students appear in classroom video |
|---|---|
| What its terms say about age | Users must be 18+ (or an organization); anyone under 13 is barred from using it. Students are not users; the district handles consent for recording classes. (terms) |
| Price | Through schools. District pricing by number of teachers; examples $1,980 a year for up to 20 teachers, $3,450 for up to 50, $4,990 for up to 100 (Oct 2026). |
| Works on | Web, Chromebook |
| Account | A school account |
| Ads | None |
| In-app purchases | None |
| The AI in it | AI models, some run by Edthena and some from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI under enterprise terms, review the uploaded lesson video and write coaching feedback. |
What's good
- Gives teachers private feedback without waiting for a coach visit
- Clear rules: student footage not used to train outside AI
- Districts see progress, not private conversations
Watch for
- Children are filmed in class; ask how your district handles consent
- AI feedback on teaching can be wrong; teachers decide what to use
- Uses outside AI providers for processing
Data and privacy
Edthena says it collects nothing directly from students, but treats students seen in teacher videos as confidential student data owned by the district, never used for ads or to train foundation models. Videos stay private to the teacher unless shared; districts see topics and hours, not conversations. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
The maker links a peer-reviewed PLOS ONE paper and a Learning Forward report on its video-coaching tools, and reports a 10 percent gain in first-year teacher retention; research on the AI coach itself is ongoing with the University of Virginia.
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Where these facts come from
- https://www.edthena.com/
- https://www.edthena.com/ai-coach-for-teachers/
- https://www.edthena.com/privacy-security/
- https://github.com/edthena/policies/blob/master/terms.md
- https://www.edthena.com/research/
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