Professional development
where growth begins.
Freyja Labs
We design hands-on, customized professional development for school districts, schools, and organizations navigating the intersection of technology and teaching. No generic workshops. No passive audiences. Every engagement is built for your people, your context, and your future.
Small tell. Lots of do.
We believe professional development should mirror the classrooms we want to create: active, relevant, and built for the people in the room.
Tailored to You
Every engagement begins with your context: your teachers, your students, your standards, your goals. We design from the ground up. Nothing is off the shelf.
Hands-On by Design
Participants build, test, and iterate. The ratio of doing to listening is intentional and non-negotiable. If the room isn't active, we haven't done our job.
Research-Grounded
Both founders are active researchers with current publications and funded projects. Our content reflects what the evidence actually says, not what sounded good in a brochure.
Services shaped by your needs
From a single workshop to a multi-year strategic partnership, we scale to the challenge.
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Custom Workshops
Multi-day, hands-on professional development sessions built for your teachers, your context, and your standards. Topics span STEM integration, AI literacy, computational thinking, and curriculum design.
District Consulting
Long-term advisory partnerships for districts pursuing systemic integration of STEM, computing, or AI. Includes needs assessment, strategic planning, implementation coaching, and progress evaluation.
Train-the-Trainer
Licensed facilitator-ready PD modules that your coaches, coordinators, and department leads can deliver independently. Build internal capacity that sustains beyond our engagement.
Virtual & Hybrid
Shorter-form virtual sessions and asynchronous modules that maintain the hands-on philosophy even in remote formats. Designed for broader reach without sacrificing quality.
Grant Evaluation & Consultation
External evaluation and pre-submission consultation for federal, state, and foundation awards. Logic models, mixed-methods data collection, and funder-ready reporting.
Conferences & Digital Platforms
Session scheduling, event websites, and web app deployment for conferences, symposia, and funded projects. Production-grade builds, no SaaS lock-in.
Founded by researchers.
Built for practitioners.
Freyja Labs brings a rare combination: deep technical fluency in computing, AI, and engineering paired with rigorous pedagogical research and K–12 institutional knowledge.
Mike Borowczak, Ph.D.
Hardware security researcher and engineering educator. Directs a 50-member research lab with over $8M in funded projects spanning hardware security, AI/ML, and secure architectures. Editor-in-Chief of an engineering education journal. Translates complex technical content for audiences from elementary classrooms to corporate boardrooms.
Andrea C. Burrows Borowczak, Ed.D.
STEM education scholar and teacher preparation specialist. Directs a school of teacher education at a major research university. Principal investigator on multiple NSF-funded projects studying STEM integration and teacher preparation. National reputation in designing and delivering professional development that actually changes classroom practice.
Ahead of the curve,
by design.
We've been delivering CS integration, computational modeling, and AI literacy workshops for years before they became policy mandates. Our clients get access to the thinking that will matter next — not the thinking that mattered last year.
— Mike & Andrea, Co-Founders
Ready to start?
Every engagement begins with a conversation. Tell us about your context, your goals, and your challenges — and we'll design something that fits.