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BCW News
WIN Participant Lessonbee Joins Amazon Accelerator
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has accepted Lessonbee—a Westchester Innovation Network (WIN) participant—into its Education Accelerator.
January 24 2024
Healthcare on Air by Verizon
Accelerating Health Equity: Equal Access to Health Education
Join Reva McPollom, Founder and CEO of Lessonbee as she discusses the importance of equal access to health education with Robin Goldsmith of Verizon Healthcare Strategy and Innovation Group and Courtney Lee Schoon of Verizon’s Forward for Good Program.
September 24 2023
BCW News
WIN’S Lessonbee Accepted into Verizon’s Accelerator
Westchester Innovation Network (WIN) participant Lessonbee has been accepted into Verizon’s Forward for Good Accelerator in Orlando, Florida. Lessonbee was one of seven companies selected for the accelerator’s health equity program out of hundreds
March 16 2023
Literal Humans
Transforming Health Education with Reva McPollom from Lessonbee
This week, Reva McPollom, Founder & CEO of Lessonbee, shares her mission to transform 3-12 health education and social emotional learning.
January 26 2023
WestFair Online
A ‘WIN’ for wellness literacy
Westchester Innovation Network (WIN), a Business Council of Westchester initiative designed to connect innovative products and services with existing organizations to guide and support their development, paired the company with the Yonkers Housing Authority (YHA).
January 5 2023
eSchool News
What SEL teaches us about safety
With SEL, we can foster emotional safety and mental wellness, and help reduce violence and risky behaviors among students
December 26 2022
Yonkers Times
Westchester Innovation Network participant Lessonbee wins 100k Google Award
The health education tech company Lessonbee has won a $100,000 award from the Google for Startups Initiative.
October 1 2022
Patch
Lessonbee introduces health platform to Yonkers housing authority
The health education platform Lessonbee will introduce its instructional program this summer to Yonkers' affordable housing residents as part of the Westchester Innovation Network.
June 13 2022
WVOX Radio
Westchester Means Business interview with Reva McPollom, Founder & CEO of Lessonbee
Jon Ravitz, host of Westchester Means Business on WVOX radio, interviews Lessonbee CEO and founder Reva McPollom about her experiences as an entrepreneur transforming 3-12 health education and SEL for students, teachers and families.
May 24 2022
New York Family
Lessonbee: The Online Learning Platform That is Redefining A Family’s Mental Health and Education
While the pandemic and being in lockdown was historically hard for everyone, it was especially rough for kids. In ordinary, pre-pandemic life, I would hear an abbreviated version of my child’s day when they’d come home from school.
Jul 13, 2021
Teachers College - Columbia University
Health Education Can Do Better. Ed Tech Entrepreneur Reva McPollom (M.A. ’12) Is Making It Happen
If your health education classes in school were defined by awkward conversations, outdated science, and silence on issues related to the LGBTQ+ community and different cultures, Reva McPollom (M.A. ’12) relates to what you went through. As the founder and CEO of Lessonbee — an online learning platform that offers culturally relevant health education courses — she’s rewriting the rules to break new ground in how schools teach sex education, mental health and more.
Jun 16, 2021
Hello Alice
What if Health Class Was...Actually Useful?
For years, the extent of American health education was a gym teacher rolling out the slide projector and droning on about the evils of drugs, alcohol, and sex. But Reva McPollom, an entrepreneur with a background in digital learning, believes that today’s generation needs a modern version of health education that meets students “where they’re at.”
Jan 4, 2021
The Root
The Root 100 - The Most Influential African Americans in 2020 - 99: Reva McPollom
Reva McPollom wants to make 'coming of age' less confusing. Her own experience growing up queer highlighted inadequacies in the way topics like mental and sexual health and identity have traditionally been taught in schools. Now an educator and
Sep 21, 2020
Tech Crunch
Health class is outdated, so Lessonbee wants to fix it
Sex education in the United States is complicated.One example: For decades, the United States invested billions into abstinence-only programs. Eventually, schools rejected government funding for these programs and pushed a more
Jun 30, 2020
Fast Company
This startup is redesigning sex education for the Instagram era
In contrast to these outdated modes of sex and nutrition education, Lessonbee is health class for the Instagram age. Founded by Reva McPollom in 2016, Lessonbee offers online classes that take broad topics like depression, bullying, sex, anorexia, gender-
Jun 29, 2020
Forbes
Rising Startups To Watch With Diverse Founders
Lessonbee, founded by Reva McPollom, is an edtech company on a mission to promote health and lifelong learning through culturally responsive education. It addresses the need for accurate and inclusive learning content for health
Jun 25, 2020
Mind Body Green
10 Resources For Black Mothers — Because Maternal Care Is Important
Founded by Reva McPollom, Lessonbee is a learning tool for students, families, and their educators to learn about the various aspects of health. It was created to address a very real, dire problem affecting students across the U.S.: a lack of access to digital,
Jun 22, 2020
Nasdaq
A Founder’s Quest to Build a More Equitable World Through Health Education
Reva McPollom is a millennial mom, digital learning consultant, and the founder and CEO of Lessonbee, an educational technology company that’s reinventing the health education experience with adaptive digital curriculum and instructional tools.
Jun 02, 2020
Progress Report
HIGHER ED From Systemic Racism to Social Isolation
Reva McPollom always knew she liked informing the public. She started her career writing for the Home News Tribune and the Star Ledger in New Jersey in the early 2000s. As digital media evolved, so did she.
May 28, 2020
Columbia Venture
CVC Success: Lessonbee
Lessonbee is an educational technology company and was recently approved by the Chicago Public Schools Office of Student Health and Wellness as a supplemental resource. Chicago Public Schools is the third largest school district in the United
Feb 26, 2020
Columbia Venture
CVC-NY Demo Night with Reva McPollom
Lessonbee Founder Reva McPollom makes health class interactive and thoughtful. Here she also describes the tough realities of building a startup and balancing life. Lessonbee is one of six Columbia affiliated startups who will be presenting in the 9th
Oct 10, 2019
Forbes
An Impact Accelerator For Startups Just North Of The Big Apple
Mt. Vernon, NY-based Lessonbee, which aims to transform health education with a new platform of health and sex education materials. According to founder Reva McPollom, her goal of building better health education will have a profound impact on
Jun 30, 2019
Westchester Magazine
Accel7 Helps Grow Westchester and Hudson Valley Startups Into Forces for Change
Lessonbee, is focused on building a platform to help with sex and health education in the public schools in the region. New York State says every public school now needs to offer sex and health education for every single student. Teachers
Jun 18, 2019
Startups Real
Lessonbee, TusDatos and Explorest join TheVentureCity Growth Program
Lessonbee is an edtech company from the USA that’s reinventing the health class experience with culture-responsive adaptive digital curriculum delivered via a cloud-based reflective learning system. “We recognize that healthy students behave
Feb 03, 2020
Lessonbee is a transformative online education platform that promotes health and lifelong learning for millions of students and professionals.
