The Taleemabad Bi-Weekly Newsletter
October 2025 Edition
Engineering Impact: From Good Ideas to Real Learning Gains
The Gap We’re Closing
In EdTech, building a feature is easy. Building one that teachers actually use and that measurably improves learning is the hardest thing to do.
That gap between innovation and impact is where most solutions fail.
Our Answer: Learning Engineering in Action
At Taleemabad, we’ve embraced a unique approach: Learning Engineering - a discipline that replaces assumptions with evidence, and data-backed iterations over design.
Learning Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach that systematically applies learning science, human-centered design, and engineering methods to solve educational problems and systems.
This approach ensures every feature we build starts with teachers, not technology. Focusing on what matters most to our students and our teachers and backward planning to see how technology can meet their needs.
The Cycle: Understand → Design → Improve
We spend time in classrooms, shadow teachers, and uncover the “why” behind every challenge.
We use this diagnosis to prototype, build data feedback loops, and track usage. We do this through our Forward-Deployed Specialists an interdisciplinary team of Taleemabad team members with expertise in educational pedagogy, lesson plan, teaching, product design and engineering. They identify JTBD (Jobs to be done) and through the iterative process build solutions directly used on site.
FDS team member immersing in the teachers day to day role
FDS team member discusses pain points experienced on site
Forward-Deployed Specialists: Learning by Doing
Forward-Deployed Specialist (FDS) teams are people who work as embedded problem solvers inside schools/government/partners organizations - living their reality and designing solutions catering to their specific contexts (JTBDs).
“We don’t ask about your problems; we do your work with you” is our mantra”
Within hours, FDS teams identify friction points, prototype solutions, and test them immediately. They iterate in person, on-the-field throughout the week and then on Fridays, the FDS teams showcase their learnings during Taleemabad’s Demo Day.
FDS team member showcases progress to institutional head
FDS team member experiences the life of the teachers on site
Our Progress
Builds what actually works
Keeps teachers at the center
Opens the path to personalized learning
Hackathon: Building Institutional Muscle for Innovation
Through internal team hackathon, we identified and automated our most repetitive organizational tasks. These hackathons acted as a capacity development initiative for our team where we paired technical members of Taleembad with non technical members to upscale their ability to collaborate across teams and design multi-tiered solutions.
Hackathon @ Taleemabad
Why we do this?
We pursue this innovation because we know that physical infrastructure alone cannot solve learning poverty at scale.
Impact of Hackathon
The Hackathon process lead to the creation of Taleemabad Markaz. A platform which now streamlines leave approvals, time-off applications, pay slips, and overtime requests - freeing up HR capacity to focus on hiring and training talent.
Taleemabad Markaz Dashboard
Another app that came out of these hackathon was Taleemabad Skyline, a system that maps and tracks our quarterly organizational goals. As we grow, Skyline provides real-time visibility into our direction and progress for every team's quarterly rocks.
Taleemabad Skyline Dashboard
“To truly reach millions of learners, we need technology that evolves into a form capable of learning from the learner. This is how we’re engineering EdTech from good ideas to real learning gains”
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Warmly,
The Taleemabad Team