Raconte

Inspiration

There are 3.5 million full and part-time public school teachers in the US 2017-2018. 74% Feel Overwhelmed by the transition to online learning and one of the top 3 ways that teachers feel supported is by connecting with other educators. In a more personal example, we know 3 teachers in the special education field who we held a Learning Differences Webinar with. We discovered from them that even in normal times, there is a lack of teachers specializing in learning disabilities and finding peer support is hard. The webinar was one of the only times they had the ability to come together and discuss strategies and tools.

What it does

Teachers can sign up for Raconte to 1) join communities grouped by specializations/interests, 2) work within their communities on projects ranging from "what strategies can I use when working with ADHD students in online learning", 3) transform their project findings into a resource that all teachers can access

How we built it

We have built our prototype using Figma.

Challenges we ran into

Learning how to use figma, and narrowing the scope of our product and trying to understand the problem through the lens of teachers since we ourselves have not taught in the traditional classroom setting.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning figma, 1st hackathon for one of our member yay, building a solution to help teachers and educations we personally know and feel confident that the product can help, and challenging ourselves to think from a perspective that is not a student's perspective which we are familiar with

What we learned

We learned a lot about the broader problem from our research about the struggles of teachers transitioning to online during COVID, about the retention issues and lack of peer support within the teacher communitty.