Who we are
At Teachcraft, we put the craft in teaching and career management.
We empower educators and organizations to think creatively and strategically about teaching excellence and faculty development.
What makes us different?
While professional development (PD) in traditional educational spaces focuses on supporting teaching excellence, it fails to address individual professional differentiation and career management. Teachcraft position educators as entrepreneurs with the creative flexibility and strategies to differentiate, promote, and monetize their unique teaching brand.
Teachcraft helps educators define & quantify learning metrics, giving them agency in defining their impact, articulating their success, & defining (or pivoting!) their career trajectory.
Teachcraft offers accessible business principles for crafting timeless digital strategies that are tool- and platform-agnostic.
Meet the Team
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Co-Founder
Miranda Rodak (Ph.D., Indiana University) is an award-winning educator and administrative leader with over twenty years of experience building enterprise-level programs that serve undergraduate and graduate students as well as instructors and faculty across disciplines.
Currently, she is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington and the Director of Indiana University’s system-wide faculty development program, the Mosaic Institute for Active Learning. Previously, she served as the Director of Undergraduate Teaching in the Department of English, where she directed multi-section writing courses serving 6,000 undergraduates annually and led a department-wide program supporting 100 instructors annually with scaffolded teacher training, strategic professional development, and an online platform. Her scholarship focuses on innovative pedagogies that promote AI and digital literacies, metacognitive learning, and inclusive, collaborative, high-impact practices.
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Co-Founder
Gabrielle Stecher (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an award-winning educator, author, and creativity advocate advancing faculty development & enhancing students’ literacy skills. She is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington, where she previously served as Associate Director of Undergraduate Teaching. In this role, she trained and supported graduate student instructors and post-doctoral fellows teaching digital composition and intensive writing courses and preparing for the job market. She works to democratize digital creativity by mobilizing accessible design technologies so that students and teachers can realize their creative potential and narrativize their knowledge, passion, and impact dynamically and intentionally across digital platforms.