About Us

Built by educators, for educators.

Adam Aberman

Adam Aberman

CEO & Founder

SchoolQualityReview.ai is Adam's third venture, following the Learning Collective (2003) and icouldbe.org (2000). He brings a 25+ year track record of building organizations that improve educational outcomes.

Adam has personally conducted over 300 in-person school quality reviews across 13 states — CA, CO, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, and WA among them — and completed more than 2,500 classroom observations. He founded icouldbe.org, an e-mentoring nonprofit that has served over 25,000 students.

Adam started his career as a Spanish bilingual public school teacher in Los Angeles. He holds a BA from Vassar College and a Master in Public Policy with an Education focus from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Outside of work, Adam loves spending time with family, walking his dog, and cheering on the Lakers.

Joshua Cook

Joshua Cook

CTO & Co-Founder

Joshua is an AI/ML engineer, data scientist, software engineer, and former educator. His career spans Nashville Biosciences, Edmentum, Hypergiant Industries, and Databricks. He served as CEO at Chelle AI.

A UC Berkeley undergrad, Joshua started his career as a high school teacher in underserved communities. He holds a Masters in Educational Leadership from UCLA's Principal Leadership Institute and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Cal State Northridge, where he was an NSF grant recipient. He has taught data science at UCLA and General Assembly.

Joshua is an early adopter of AI technologies and brings deep expertise in building production ML systems to SchoolQualityReview.ai.

When he's not coding, Joshua plays guitar, piano, and electronic music. He lives with his wife, daughter, and chihuahua.

“Every school deserves access to high-quality, research-based assessment tools.”