Five reasons leaders choose to build with us.
For districts, networks, associations and PD providers working to strengthen educators and lift student learning.
Built by people who’ve sat in your seat.
Our team and advisors have given their careers to education: teachers, principals, superintendents and the people who lead professional learning in schools, districts and education organizations. CoLab is shaped with educators every single day.
A strategic partner, not a help desk.
We are strategic advisors who help your initiatives stick, with hands-on support every step of the way. We measure success the way you do: educators who feel supported, and stronger learning for students.
"Working with CoLab feels like having a strategic partner, not just a platform. Ariella and her team bring big-picture thinking and real care for educators…every conversation has helped Deschool think bigger and more clearly about where we can grow. What makes CoLab different from a typical edtech vendor is their belief that the best ideas come from collaboration across schools and organizations."

Ritu
Founder & CEO, Deschool Online Inc.
✓ design your community around your priorities
✓ move your resources in and seed it
✓ onboard your leads and facilitators
✓ co-build actionable insights reports
✓ stay with you, unlimited support
Trusted by thousands of educators and the institutions they learn with.
94% of CoLab members would recommend it to a colleague.

Utah’s statewide learning teams
36+ learning teams · 35+ districts, charters and partners
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Purpose-built for educator collaboration. Not adapted from something else.
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What you need
CoLab
Teams or Google
Community platforms
PD days, email, chats
Built for educators learning together
Yes
No
Partly
No
Connects people across schools and organizations
Yes
Partly
Yes
Partly
Resources adapted and credited across schools
Yes
Partly
No
No
Insights on what’s taking hold
Yes
No
Partly
No
Set up and supported by the CoLab team
Yes
No
No
No
Grounded in research. Built to show what’s changing.
Decades of research agree on what makes professional learning work. CoLab builds it into how your teams work every day, and custom insights show your leaders where it’s taking hold.
Effective professional learning is…
Sustained
Collaborative
Job-embedded
Coached
Built on great models
CoLab helps you deliver all five, every week of the year, not just on PD days.
Why it matters
Schools where teachers collaborate well in instructional teams see stronger student achievement gains.
Ronfeldt, Farmer, McQueen and Grissom, 2015 · Darling-Hammond, Hyler and Gardner, LPI, 2017
Let us show you how CoLab could work for you.
Share your top priorities, and we’ll sketch out what a year of support could look like for your team.
