The company
At EdBetter we have a singular goal: to provide system leaders with data that supports improvement in instruction.
What Drives Us
We believe the promise of high-quality curriculum is real, but only if it reaches students as intended. Instruction is shaped by preparation, support, and the systems that surround teachers every day.
That is why we build for system leaders rather than for individual classrooms. When a state or a district can see the pattern across thousands of lessons, it can act on the pattern instead of guessing at it.
About
The people behind the systems.
EdBetter has a deep bench of education leaders, working on the part of curriculum implementation that usually goes unmeasured.
Amreena Hussain
Founder
A public education leader with expertise in instructional improvement, strategy, and performance management. Amreena has led statewide and district-level efforts spanning curriculum, accountability, leadership development, and organizational improvement, including Maryland's HQIM strategy, Texas' statewide strategic planning efforts, and major academics programs at Baltimore City Public Schools.
Amreena is the author of EdBetter's 2026 white paper on curriculum-aligned instructional supports, drawing on pilot data across EdBetter's pilot districts. She has also published policy briefs on state assessment and accountability systems and multilingual learners.
- Senior Advisor, statewide HQIM strategy, Maryland State Department of Education
- Former Director of Strategy and Performance, Office of the Commissioner, Texas Education Agency
- Former Senior Policy Associate, Achieve, Inc.
- MA, Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University
Our team
State and District Instructional Leaders
Our team has led some of the most consequential education improvement efforts in the country, from statewide instructional leadership and large-scale curriculum initiatives to educator compensation reform. Across every engagement, we are united by a commitment to improving teaching and learning through evidence, strong systems, and effective leadership.
Tim Regal
Advisor
Former Associate Commissioner of Instructional Support at the Texas Education Agency, leading a team of roughly 65. Designed and rolled out Texas Instructional Leadership, T-TESS and T-PESS.
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Melissa Lautenschlager
Advisor
25 years in Texas education. Former Director of Curriculum and Instruction at KIPP Texas across 59 schools, and former Director of Instructional Materials and Implementation at TEA.
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Teresa Khirallah
Advisor
Founder of TK Education Consulting. A decade teaching, then principal and principal supervisor, and led a leadership program supporting more than 250 schools.
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Grace Wu
Product roadmap
Led Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment, the first fully funded educator incentive program in the country, and the state's teacher and leader certification redesign.
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Saif Abid
Advisor, technology
A hands-on technical leader in distributed systems and machine learning. Shapes the technology roadmap and ensures the platform scales while maintaining security and compliance.
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Zarah Lakhani
Operations associate
Nonprofit operations, donor engagement and event strategy, with experience in education including early childhood work and teaching.
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Contact
Let's talk.
If you're working to improve teaching and learning, we'd love to hear about the challenges and opportunities you're seeing in your system. Whether you're focused on curriculum, instructional leadership, data, or broader system improvement, we're always happy to share what we've learned and explore ideas together.
If we're not the right partner, we'll do our best to point you toward people and resources that can help.