About Learning Wake

Built in a Classroom. For Every Classroom.

Learning Wake wasn’t designed by a product team in a tech office. It was built by a teacher who got tired of watching students fall through the cracks of a spreadsheet.

The Problem I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About

After more than 20 years teaching CTE and Science at the high school level, I’d seen the same thing play out hundreds of times. A multi-week project assigned. Students nod along. Then three days before the deadline, you find out half the class never started.

The tools available to me were built for content delivery — not project accountability. Google Classroom is great for assignments. But there was nothing that gave me a real-time view of where every single student stood on a multi-step project, right now, without chasing them down individually.

So I started tracking everything in spreadsheets. Color-coded rows. Manual updates. Columns for each task. It worked — barely — and it took forever. Every time I updated it I thought: there has to be a better way.

Eventually I decided to build it myself. Not because I had a background in software — but because I knew exactly what a teacher actually needed, and I was tired of waiting for someone else to build it.

Learning Wake is the tool I wished existed when I started teaching. Every feature comes from a real classroom problem. Every decision gets filtered through one question: does this make a teacher’s job easier?

“There was nothing that gave me a real-time view of where every student stood on a multi-step project — without chasing them down individually. So I built it.”
Jake Wake CTE & Science Teacher · Founder, Learning Wake

Who’s Behind Learning Wake

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20+ Years in the Classroom Over two decades teaching high school students in San Bernardino County, California
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CTE & Science Teacher Career & Technical Education and Science instruction — project-based learning is the curriculum
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M.A. — Azusa Pacific University Graduate-level education credentials grounded in pedagogy and student development
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Solo Developer Every line of Learning Wake was written by a teacher who still uses it — no middleman, no guesswork
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Still Teaching Learning Wake is actively used and refined in a real classroom — not shelved after launch
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Google OAuth Verified Google-verified integration with Google Classroom — approved April 2026

What Learning Wake Stands For

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Teacher-First Design

Every feature starts with a real classroom problem. If it doesn’t make a teacher’s day easier, it doesn’t ship.

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Student Privacy Above All

FERPA, COPPA, and California SOPIPA compliant. Student data is never sold, never used for advertising, never shared without consent.

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Simple by Default

Teachers have enough complexity in their day. Learning Wake is designed to be up and running in under 10 minutes — no IT department required.

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Honest and Transparent

No surprise fees. No bait-and-switch. No venture capital pressure to monetize your students’ data. Just a fair tool at a fair price.

Our Commitment to Schools

  • Student data belongs to students and their schools — always. Learning Wake processes it only to provide the service.
  • We will never sell student data to third parties or use it for advertising purposes.
  • Schools can request a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) at any time — contact us and we’ll send one within 24 hours.
  • Schools can request full deletion of their data at any time, no questions asked.
  • Pricing is transparent and published publicly — no hidden fees, no surprise invoices.
  • If something breaks, a real person who built the platform responds — not a support ticket queue.

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