Professional Development Solution of the Year: TORSH Wins 2025 EdTech Award
Prestigious International Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Educational Technology Products and Companies
NEW ORLEANS – June 9, 2025 – TORSH Inc., a leading education technology provider, today announced that it has been recognized with the “Professional Development Solution of the Year” award in the 7th annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by EdTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in global education technology.
TORSH provides a complete, structured, and scalable coaching solution that education organizations use to develop, sustain, and scale their coaching and professional learning programs. The user-friendly platform makes it simple to plan, implement, track, and analyze professional learning activities. Organizations save time by leveraging observation, coaching, and learning in one robust platform, whether for one location or many.
TORSH Talent, TORSH’s flagship product, integrates easily into existing routines and systems to support the full coaching cycle: structured observations, formative assessments, feedback, goal setting, goal tracking, collaboration, and data-driven insights. TORSH’s high-impact coaching ecosystem is accessible at scale—whether in-person, virtual, or hybrid. The platform also integrates AI with human-centered coaching for additional flexibility and scale.
TORSH Talent provides an exceptional framework for collaborating, performing observations, and delivering evidence-based feedback. It’s simple to monitor and report on a user’s progress using competency-based assessments, completion percentages, and more.
Driving Measurable Impact Through Coaching
TORSH also provides organizations with valuable insights to measure progress and refine coaching strategies. The Insights feature compiles all interactions generated by users into reports that offer perspective into what educators are doing, their progress, and what is working for them in their classrooms. Administrators can track data at the user, school, or district level.
The Coaching Corner serves as a digital portfolio that gathers everything needed to manage and support mentees in one place—aggregating workflows, activities, goals, artifacts, and assessments. The Custom Workflows module enables deployment and tracking of online learning with enrollment, assignment, and reporting capabilities.
“TORSH eliminates the barriers to high-quality coaching. U.S. schools spend billions annually on professional development, yet only about a quarter of teachers say they receive meaningful coaching that improves their practice,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director, EdTech Breakthrough. “TORSH is redefining what coaching and professional learning should look like… We’re pleased to recognize TORSH with the ‘Professional Development Solution of the Year’ award!”
About the EdTech Breakthrough Awards
The mission of the EdTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize innovation, hard work, and success in educational technology across categories such as Student Engagement, School Administration, Adaptive Learning, STEM, and Remote Learning. This year’s program attracted thousands of nominations from over 15 countries.
“Most professional development is failing… We’re spearheading a coaching revolution by putting expert coaching at the fingertips of educators to ensure continuous growth, measurable impact, and real transformation,” said Courtney Williams, CEO and Founder of TORSH. “We’re honored to receive this award. Our solution is a movement toward better teaching, learning, and outcomes.”
Award Recognition Reinforces TORSH’s Mission
This recognition from EdTech Breakthrough affirms TORSH’s unwavering commitment to transforming professional learning through innovative, evidence-based coaching solutions. As education systems grapple with educator burnout, staffing challenges, and a demand for measurable impact, TORSH continues to lead with a platform that empowers growth at every level.
With this award, TORSH not only celebrates a milestone—it reinforces its mission to help educators thrive, students succeed, and organizations build sustainable coaching cultures that drive long-term improvement.
About TORSH, Inc.
TORSH, a New Orleans-based education technology company, is dedicated to improving childhood outcomes by increasing educator instructional effectiveness. TORSH Talent, an online coaching and professional learning platform, enables organizations to support educator growth through observation, assessment, goal setting, feedback, and coaching. Learn more at torsh.co.
About EdTech Breakthrough
EdTech Breakthrough is part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading recognition platform for global tech innovation. The awards spotlight excellence in e-learning, student engagement, administration, STEM, and more. Visit edtechbreakthrough.com for details.