Teknol: Multi-Pronged Solutions for the Early-Learning Sector

Rahul Beri, Co-Founder and CEO

As an edtech solution provider geared exclusively to cater to the early learning sector, Teknol—a one of a kind company—adopts a multi-pronged solutions approach that extends well beyond delivering core technology apps to the Early Education providers. PREto3.com provides complete backend support to Preschools, Childcare and Afterschool providers by offering easy to use app for day to day functioning, research-based, Comprehensive Curricular Materials, Pedagogical Techniques, Learning Materials, Teacher Training Programs and Assessment Tools. The company’s visionary CEO, Rahul Beri shares unique insights with CIOApplications to shed more light on the varied value propositions that Teknol imparts.

How has Teknol, with PREto3 app, aligned to address the evolving needs of the early learning space?

One of the biggest challenges within the space is primarily the lack of communication between the program providers and the parent. While there is an inherent need among parents to play an active role in their child’s early and crucial ‘developmental phase,’ parents are often not aware of the educational developments going on in the school such as the timetable or the curriculum; they are also not well-informed about the school calendar and day-to-day events. We believe that technology could help bridge this gap. There is a lot of paperwork involved in running a school or aftercare program, which when digitized will not only be a time-saver for administrators and teachers but will also enable them to spend quality time on the children—which is crucial given their age brackets. Our primary focus is on solving the problems of early learning sector, providing technology solutions, be it management, communication, collaboration, or increasing the administrative efficiency of early learning centers. Teknol’s PREto3 automates these processes to help schools achieve an optimum level of operations. Moreover, our apps can be rolled out on to any country given they can be readily translated into any language.

How quickly can clients go up and running with PREto3? What are some of the visibility parameters and controls that they can leverage?

The onboarding process of the PREto3 app is very simple, all that the school needs to do is visit PREto3.com and register, after which, we have templates that enable them to submit data in a preformatted manner.

Once the credentials are registered, parents are prompted to sign up and seamlessly initiate communications with the school on a real-time basis. The platform’s API driven integrations even help schools streamline the vastly unstructured data that resides on various silos such as PC drives and e-mail.

Our primary focus is on solving the problems of early learning sector, providing technology driven solutions for increasing the administrative efficiency of early learning centers

From an administrative standpoint, the platform automates a child’s registration by digitizing all necessary forms and documents for enrolment including medical documents. Through school websites that are integrated into our APIs, parents can easily fill out forms; all the documents are readily made available to parents in regard to any update with their child’s registration. This eliminates time-consuming paperwork. After all, what good is record keeping if they are not made readily available at the request of concerned stakeholders? Fee collection processes will also be intuitively streamlined; the platform automatically sends out reminders, shows stats on instances such as ‘credit-card pulls’ and as well lays out detailed reports for administrators.

Parents know their child’s activities in the class through easy access to class calendar, time table, attendance notifications, and activity updates. This, in effect, enables parents to better engage with their children when they get home. Furthermore, PREto3 takes away the hefty load on teachers to manually connect and send student performance reports to parents.PREto3 automates the process and even supports multiple language outputs. Furthermore, it comes with assessment tools, learning materials and necessary digital support.

Please throw some more light on to your novel ‘experimental schools’ initiatives.

Technology solution is just one aspect of Teknol; we provide educational services as well to families. We also develop content and curriculum to support preschools. The experimental schools that we run— Laurel Play Gardens—the curriculum is based on a blended philosophy centered on the progressive development of the child, which is designed to evolve with the growth of the child. Every child today learns at a different pace—they are not cookie cutters—so why should the curriculum have to be so?

You have diversified your product offerings to include solutions that revolve around prenatal awareness. Could you give us more insights as to why you’ve chosen such an approach?

I see Teknol as an entity that fosters an ecosystem for early learning, providing end to end applications for daily use with features like registrations, billing, document management and also Connecting Teachers, Parents, And Administrators to Deliver an Integrated and Nurturing Educational Experience for Pre-School & after School Children. Our Focus Is on Supporting Development in The First Five Years, To Give Each Child the Very Best Start in Life. Our Innovative and Easy-To-Use Apps are Designed to Support and Facilitate Communication, Engagement and Collaboration every step of the way.

How has the track record and client responses been for Teknol? How do you see the company evolve?

Since our inception in 2015, we are present in close to 100 schools in the U.S. We are also working with a few school districts. Our offerings have helped schools achieve higher returns on investments by enabling them to streamline payments, and reduce teacher-parent communication gaps. We aim to establish our presence in 25,000 schools across the globe.