Stoked for Learning started as a disposition. It was the natural choice for my education storytelling agency’s name and approach, delivering cinematic stories that strategically elevate your message, amplify your mission, engage your audience, inspiring them to action.
The Chief Stoker
Writer-producer turned educator, turned filmmaker. I’m Eric Nentrup and since leaving the classroom, have felt compelled to bring my first career into my second. I believe that if a picture’s worth a thousand words, 24 frames-per-second is even more transformative in telling stories that ignite hearts and inspire action and growth.
For the past 15+ years, I’ve worked across classrooms, district teams, edtech companies, and national nonprofits to elevate what’s working in public education from firsthand practice, through edtech leadership and policy guidance. My lens has always been both literal and figurative—seeing people and systems with curiosity, clarity, and care.
Whether I’m writing policy guidance, getting in position with my camera, directing a film crew, coaching a teacher, or co-authoring a report, my goal is the same: to make learning better by making it more human.
🔎 You can hire me for work that sits at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and systems. That includes:
🎥 Documentary-Style Media Production
- Directing, producing, shooting, and editing narrative and documentary media
- Field Experience: Inspired Learning Series (in production), Advanced Learning Partners Amplification services for Cobb Co. Schools, Michigan’s REMC, School District of Philadelphia, and the Idaho Department of Education.
- Strengths: Human-centered visuals, educational empathy, production design, leadership and management.
🧪 Education Research + Project Management
- Leading or contributing to multi-part deliverables (e.g., field research, qualitative analysis, co-authored reports)
- Experience: Multiple campaigns for ACT’s LatinX research reporting, Digital Promise’s AI non-regulatory policy work for the former Office of Ed Tech and Future Ready Schools
- Strengths: Conceptual clarity, executive-ready editing, managing through complexity
🎓 Instructional Coaching + PD Facilitation
- Specializing in AI readiness, learner-centered pedagogy, and strategic implementation
- Experience: Co-leads educator PD, speaks at national conferences, founding content lead for the EDSAFE AI Alliance
- Strengths: Grounded theory meets practical scaffolding; audience rapport across K–12 from practice to policy.
📊 EdTech Sales + Marketing Strategy
- Sales territory, team, and playbook development, marketing collateral strategy, case study writing and production, and narrative alignment for go-to-market teams and campaigns.
- Experience: Strategic work with edtech startups’ sales orgs, marketing content for PD providers, product launches.
- Strengths: Translating instructional goals into marketing language that resonates with the most likely prospective school partners.
Want to brainstorm with me? Hire me to coach your team or lead a messaging campaign? Get a short film made that doesn’t feel like a template?
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