Adventure2Learning: Scaling An EdTech Startup To Thrive StartEdUp Podcast

Rob Bencal, Co-Founder and President of Adventure2Learning and is passionate about getting relevant video content to students. In this episode, Rob goes over the learning and pivots of starting an EdTech company, and how they've scaled to thousands of schools.

Adventure2 Learning "equips teachers with a wide range of content from educational producers of core curriculum subjects as well as timely topics such as SEL, mindfulness, and fitness."
For more information, go to: https://www.adventure2learning.com/

Rob has an extensive career in marketing and children’s media. Prior roles include
director of brand marketing at Fisher-Price, director of content strategy & distribution
at Mattel and senior director of corporate development for media & entertainment at
Mattel.

Also in the podcast, Rob highlights the work of classroom teacher
Quinlan O’Grady, who is a 3rd grade teacher at Schmid Elementary School on Chicago’s south side, where she has been teaching for the past nine years. During her tenure at Schmid she has successfully built meaningful school partnerships, connected mentors with scholars,
championed school-wide events and curricula that foster college and career readiness, and created a classroom environment that fosters growth, success, and the social well-being of all of
her scholars. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Special Education, as a member of Project SURGE, Special Education Urban Research for Greater Equity, at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Her research is focused around the power of teacher-student relationships on student behavior, growth, and achievement.