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Our guest today is Dr. Brenton White. Dr. White is the Superintendent/ CEO of A+ Charter Schools, INC. He has more than 23 years of experience in education, serving the last five years as a superintendent.
“When people say, “Oh, you can't color trees purple.” the ones that persist continue to be artists. The others acclimate to the norm.”“I think any leader must jump in and do what's needed to make things happen.”“We have a lot of students who graduate and become teachers. And in fact, we have five teachers right now who were students.”“Retention has a lot to do with culture and so we're trying to create the best culture possible.”
In this episode, Dr. White discusses the challenges of being a leader, the importance of education for underserved communities, how competition improves school performance and gives insight into teacher shortages.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenton-white-ed-d-148b953b/A+ Charter Schools: https://www.apluscharterschools.org/301143_2
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Our guest today is Amit Patel. Amit is is a Managing Partner at Owl Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in the world's leading education technology companies such as Byju, dreambox, Newsela, Quizzlet, and more: https://owlvc.com/portfolio.html
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:2021 Education Outcomes Report - https://view.genial.ly/615f5ecf4ec4620d9a6b863cAmira Learning - https://www.amiralearning.comQuizlet - https://quizlet.comWhere to learn more about [Name]:Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitashwinpatelTwitter - https://twitter.com/amitashwinpatelWebsite - https://owlvc.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand: Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/
In this episode, we talk about how the education technology infrastructure investments years ago create the conditions for the EdTech boom today, we talk about a new cohort of learning-science-based startups and much more.
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Our guest today is Deborah Quazzo, the cofounder and managing partner of GSV Ventures, one of the earliest and more prestigious venture funds investing in the entire spectrum of education from PreK to Gray including companies that we all use daily such as Coursera, Classdojo, Clever, Quizziz and many more. Deborah is also the cofounder of the annual annual ASU+GSV Summit which attracts over 5000 visitors each year, now 13 years in, and is where the major education trends are revealed each year.
In this episode, we look at EdTech trends post-pandemic, glean a couple of key takeaways from the latest ASU+GSV summit, speculate on the race to the first $100B EdTech company, and, most importantly, talk about Return on Education and what a ROE school would look like.
Check out the GSV portfolio, you will know a lot of the names: https://gsv.ventures/portfolio/Why not attend the Summit next year? https://www.asugsvsummit.com/We referenced this prior podcast episode: https://blog.enrollhand.com/consumerization-k12-education/
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Here are the key takeaways from the GSU+ASV summit:
Fireside Chat with Eddie Glaude - https://www.asugsvsummit.com/video/stage-x-fireside-chat-with-eddie-glaude-and-josh-andersonIsabel Wilkerson on ASU+GSV: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/video/isabel-wilkerson-pulitzer-prize-winner-and-author-of-new-york-times-bestsellers-the-warmth-of-other-suns-and-caste-the-origins-of-our-discontent-discusses-truth-reconciliationWhere to learn more about Deborah:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/deborahquazzoWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_H._QuazzoOther - https://gsv.ventures/team/deborah-quazzo/Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website: www.enrollhand.com
Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com
Our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/
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Our guest today is Daniel Pianko. Daniel is a Managing Director at Achieve and University Ventures. He has a long experience adviser and innovator in student finance, medical education, and postsecondary education.
In this episode, we talk about how people's focus is shifting from the inputs to the output of education, how personalization is a misplaced idea, and how to successfully invest in job-training for young people.
In our discussion, we cover:
02:06 - How people are increasingly focused on the outcome of education04:22 - Why personalized learning is a misplaced idea, the holy grail that will never be achieved. Team work is a better strategy to enhance learning10:34 - We describe an example of a charter school that transitioned successfully from a directive learning style to a more aspirational, student-led curriculum17:21 - Why Zoom schooling has just exasperated the equity challenges23:22 - How last-mile training may be the answer to pull things along27:45 - The concept that schools do job-training in a vacuum is part of the problem. Companies should pay for job training instead29:04 - The public school system should embrace last-mile job training to increase relevance and enrollmentWhere to learn more about Daniel:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/danielpiankoWebsite - https://www.achievepartners.com/team/daniel-pianko.htmlWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website: www.enrollhand.com
Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com
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Our guest today is Mercedes Bent, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mercedes is focused on education and consumer early stage investing. Previously she was working in VR and a General Manager at General Assembly.
Mercedes' post about the Lightspeed EdTech Portfolio - https://mercedesbent.co/2021/02/24/lightspeeds-edtech-portfolio/Mercedes post about 3 trends that are here to stay - https://mercedesbent.co/2021/08/03/edtech-post-pandemic-3-trends-here-to-stay/Fiveable and StudyStream are some social learning startups mentioned by Mercedes - https://fiveable.me, https://www.studystream.liveMercedes on the Ventures Stories podcast - https://soundcloud.com/venturestories/the-state-and-future-of-edtech
In this episode, we explore how EdTech is shifting and giving more power to parents and students. We look at social learning and gaming, which together offer a lot of promise for the future of education.
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion: (links)Where to learn more about Mercedes:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/mercebentPersonal Website - https://mercedesbent.co/Lightspeed Ventures - https://lsvp.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/ -
Our guest today is Rebecca Kaden. Rebecca is a Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures. She has a particular interest in education and an extremely deep understanding of the evolving EdTech landscape. Rebecca began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer focused early stage fund.
Our first episode with Sora Schools - https://blog.enrollhand.com/have-you-heard-of-sora-schools/Our second episode with Sora Schools - https://blog.enrollhand.com/roadmap-club/Venture Stories episode: Redesigning School for Students To Thrive with Rebecca Kaden of USV and Garrett Smiley of Sora Schools - https://soundcloud.com/venturestories/redesigning-school-forOur episode: 420 Learning Guides Coach Learners Towards Mastery, with Kelly Smith, CEO at Prenda - https://blog.enrollhand.com/420-learning-guides/Our pisode: Will the Consumerization of Education Continue, with Jennifer Carolan - https://blog.enrollhand.com/consumerization-k12-education/John Danner on Twitter about Web3 & Education - https://twitter.com/jwdanner/status/1442539746358530056
In this episode, we talk about how new technology can decentralize many aspects of what school is today, so that the learning experience can really feel individual for each student.
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Where to learn more about Rebecca:
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-kaden/Twitter - https://twitter.com/rebeccakadenWebsite - https://www.usv.com/Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
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Our guest today is Benoit Wirz, a partner at Brighteye Ventures, the leading European EdTech venture firm.
In this episode, we talk about the evolving EdTech landscape in Europe as well as the unique attributes of rising European education companies.
Citibank study citing the Edtech Opportunity Gap - https://www.citifirst.com.hk/home/upload/citi_research/eduAXO97.pdfYouSchool - http://youschool.frKlassroom - https://klassroom.frBrighteye Ventures open roles - https://www.brighteyevc.com/open-roles
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Where to learn more about Benoit:
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitwirz/Website - https://www.brighteyevc.com/Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website: www.enrollhand.com
Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com
Our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/
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Our guest today is Jinal Jhaveri. Jinal is the co-founder and Chairman of Schoolmint, a venture partner at Runa Capital and also co-founder and CEO at enable.us.
In this episode, we talk about Jinal's lessons growing Schoolmint, how he channeled the tailwinds of the school choice movements, and what his experience can offer for schools today.Listen and take note of Jinal's obsessive focus on the Customer, continuously trying to delight and really understand who you are serving.
A previous podcast appearance Jinal made: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/acquired-by-bv-investment-partners-founder-of-schoolmint-jinal-jhaveri-shares-his-experience-of-getting-acquired/How to design a Portrait of A Graduate: https://portraitofagraduate.orgA tweet Jinal wrote on how obsessed he is with customershttps://twitter.com/jinal/status/1350180072511082496How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit - https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fitWhere to learn more about Jinal:Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhaveri/Jinal's request for pre-K–12 ed-tech startups - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/request-pre-k12-ed-tech-startups-helping-distance-learning-jhaveri/Where to learn more about Enrollhand: Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/
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Our guest today is Jennifer Carolan. Jennifer started her career as a classroom teacher in a Chicago district. She then moved to California to attend Stanford, and there got inspired to use her teaching experience in support od tech founders. So she joined NewSchools Venture Fund where she learned the craft of VC, while also co-creating and teaching a course at Stanford. After that, Jennifer co-founded Reach Capital, with a first fund in 2000, a second fund in 2018 and a third fund more recently.
In this episode, Jennifer and I talk about how student engagement is an outcome of strong pedagogy. We then describe a new generation of global education companies that are partnering with school districts and we caution policy makers that need to rise to the occasion in order to keep innovation from escaping the public school system. Finally we talk about different promising edtech categories and end up with the conclusion that parents are the stakeholders that still lack a lot of support in the ecosystem.
A tweet by Jennifer encapsulating her belief in pedagogy-led edtech startupshttps://twitter.com/jencarolan/status/1402677758820438018Our conversation with Amir from Outschool - https://blog.enrollhand.com/learning-is-more-than-a-consumer-experience-with-amir-nathoo/Jennifer's hopeful piece on EdSurge serving as a call to action for policy makers - https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-08-23-teachers-drive-innovation-this-time-will-they-do-so-within-or-outside-the-systemJennifer's tweet highlighting the increased collaboration between school districts and startupshttps://twitter.com/jencarolan/status/1422648800192122886The Chart of the Century - https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/1350826322642296835Reach Capital's companies, including the ones mentioned in our discussion - https://www.reachcapital.com/companies/Harari's book mentioned by Jennifer as a good depiction of the new age we need to prepare students for - https://www.ynharari.com/book/21-lessons-book/A particular mention of Guardians Collective, mentionned by Jennifer as an interesting model to support parents - https://www.aboutgc.com
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Where to learn more about Jennifer:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jencarolanWebsite - https://www.reachcapital.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
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Our guest today is John Danner. John is an investor in Edtech and the Future of Work. During the last 3 years he has participated in investments that have impacted many learner lives, like Lambda School or Outschool. Before being an investor, John started Netgravity, an internet advertising firm that went public and was sold to Doubleclick now Google. Then he did a U-turn and became a teacher in a school district. After that, he built a school and started Rocketship Education, a charter school network that now has 13K students in 23 schools across. Finally he went on to start Zeal, an online real-time support math tutoring company which he later sold and became an investor.
In this episode, John and I think about trends in K-12 innovation, discuss the benefits of cohort-based courses in a K-12 environment versus adult education, dig into what really is core learning and what is not, dream about different learning experiences that could and should exist, distill what first principles you need to build a school today.
Listen and take note of how one of edtech's more respected investors today thinks about the future of education.
Lambda School - https://lambdaschool.comOutschool - https://outschool.comRocketship Education - https://www.rocketshipschools.orgMaven - https://maven.comPrenda School - https://www.prenda.comGalileoXP - https://galileoxp.comSynthesis School - https://www.synthesis.isEnder - https://joinender.comSongbird - https://www.songbirdeducation.comBuilding a Second Brain - https://www.buildingasecondbrain.comWrite of Passage - https://perell.com/write-of-passage/John Danner on Venture Stories - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/village-globals-venture-storie-591423/episodes/the-past-present-and-future-of-59632693John Danner on the Future of Learning and Work Podcast - https://anchor.fm/flw/episodes/1-John-Danner---EdTech-Investing--Trends--Opportunities-ep6k91
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Where to learn more about John:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jwdannerDunce Deals - https://dunce.substack.com/people/3039585-john-dannerBlog - https://johnwdanner.medium.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
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Our guest today is Andrew Barry. Andrew started off at KPMG where he built out their training, then he created Curious Lion where he and his team help the likes of Pinterest and many other companies to create corporate training programs. I first met Andrew when we were both taking an online writing course called Write of Passage, and I have been eager to talk about learning online ever since.
I love Andrew's strong conviction that everyone has a course in them. It's not just an optimistic "You can also do this" type of message. He recognises that on the one hand, the online learning techniques he describes so clearly can effect student transformations in a repeatable and predictable way. But also, on the other hand, his new concept of teacher identity means that we'll all want to learn from different teachers not because the content is better but because we resonate more with one or the other. Learning is hard and very emotional.It feels like Andrew is working on a mathematical formula for course creation, something like: Student-centered content + Beginner's mind + Deliberate Practice + Accountability + Reflection = Student TransformationThere's a craze around cohort-based courses and probably for good reason. Andrew neatly explains the "beauty of the cohort" in the safe environments they create.Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion: K. Anders Ericsson, Deliberate Practice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_EricssonWhy You Need Two Kinds of Groups to Power Group Learning, Andrew Barry - https://curiouslionlearning.com/why-group-learning/David Perell - Write of Passage - https://perell.com/write-of-passage/Global Teacher Prize - https://www.globalteacherprize.orgRanjitsinh Disale 2020 - https://www.globalteacherprize.org/winners/ranjitsinh-disale-2020/Peter Tabichi 2019 - https://www.globalteacherprize.org/winners/peter-tabichi-2019/The Economics of Superstars, Sherwin Rosen - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1803469Where to learn more about Andrew:Twitter - https://twitter.com/BazzarutoLuma - https://lu.ma/bazzarutoCurious Lion - https://curiouslionlearning.comCourse Creators Collective - https://www.coursecreatorscollective.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand: Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/
In this episode, we learn how everyone can design online learning experiences to repeatably effect transformations in their students' lives. Then we try to sketch out a future of what happens when more and more teachers can generate these transformations, what a world that will be! -
Our guest today is Indra Sofian, the cofounder fo Sora School, an online project-based-learning high school.
Virtual School is the Future, by Garrett Smiley - https://soraschools.com/virtual-school-is-the-future/Redesigning School for Students To Thrive - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/village-globals/redesigning-school-for-ij6_CO4w1z-/MTC Mastery Transcript® - https://mastery.org
In this episode, we catch up after our first chat 2 years ago. Then the school was just starting, now there is an innovative yet mature high school operating entirely online. It is the first digital-native high school I have studied closely, so I wanted to dig into their entire operating system. We discussed how they motive learners, how they structure their academic standards, how students select the skills they need to master, the projects they design and complete. How the Sora team designs incentive mechanisms so that students navigate through a sea of skills and standards at an accelerating pace, a bit like a video game.
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Where to learn more about [Name]:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/indysofianWebsite - https://soraschools.com/Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
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Our guest today is Cam Stottler. He is the Executive Director of North Lakes Academy Charter School, a K-12 tuition free school located in Forest Lake, MN.
The school has been in operation for over 20 years, implementing an educational program that is challenging, developmentally appropriate, and catering to the needs and passions of their students. Given the small class sizes, each student receives personalized attention from teachers and the school feels like a big family.
In this episode, we talk about how you can increase your expectations from students and keep standards high, while increasing their motivation at the same time.
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05:11 - If a school leader sees potential in administrative colleagues or teacher leaders, then it's their number one job to invest in that potential, in those people. That is the greatest impact a leader can have on the school,
is those people. And then in turn, those people will turn around and invest in the teachers, and the teachers in the students and so on. So if a school leader feels that the potential's there, then they have to, they have to take the time to invest in it.
15:43 - We tell them we keep standards way up here because you deserve that from us. And if we did anything less than that, then we're failing you. And often students, the students that schools are labeled behavior problems or disruptors, they need to hear that .They need to hear that, no matter what, our expectations are not going to change because you're worth it.
And often that last part doesn't get added to it. It's just our expectations of this high, because that's who we are, but it's not about us. The expectations are high because that's what you need.26:47 - We have such a negative connotation with failure that anyone who can work through that and can recognize that failure is part of the process. If you're not failing, you're not doing it right. Which is ironic but if you're not seeking failure, you're not growing, you're not receiving feedback, you're not understanding criticism. And those are such key facets as we all look around in our current jobs, right? The people who can't fail well are the ones you don't want to work with, the ones that ultimately aren't going to make a good partner or aren't going to grow the company or have the impact that you want them to have. And so I think it's, again, keeping the students in front of the idea that "yes, you can AND you're expected to, AND you're going to fail as a part of that and that's all okay and that's all going to be part of who you are.
Where to learn more about Cam Stottler and North Lakes Academy Charter School:
http://www.northlakesacademy.orgCam Stottler | Executive Director | [email protected] | 651-797-6266Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
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In this episode, we catch up on the last 2 years since our first podcast interview in August 2019. We talk about how Prenda uses a unique learning model with a mix of blended learning, PBL and inquiry-based learning to increase confidence and curiosity. We see how they enhance grit and perseverance, helping learners to stick with their problems longer, as Albert Einstein would say.
Some interesting highlights from our discussion:
The focus is on helping the child choose to be a learner. Nurturing their curiosity, setting goals, not quitting despite the tears, as per Albert Einstein, staying with their problems longer.
The learning model takes all the progressive learning research and packs into a simple, 3-part daily schedule. We compared it to how the Homebrew Computer Club tinkerers ended up with the Apple II - decades of trial and error packaged into a simple, beautiful box.
The learning guide does not teach or instruct. The role is flipped. They coach. With the simple, beautiful learning mode, kids are always on their learning frontier. They progress FAST, wizzing through grade levels.
Prenda is a growing, remote team, and is gradually making it's way from the South West to any state that welcomes them. Working with public and charter schools, the microschools are free.
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:
Previous episode: https://blog.enrollhand.com/launching-80-schools-in-8-months-with-kelly-smith/Quote: "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert EinsteinPrenda Town Hall Intro video - https://youtu.be/cHrOWvEKSvQ?t=46Dan Meyer's Three-Act Math Tasks - https://blog.mrmeyer.com/category/3acts/Homebrew Computer Club - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_ClubI, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C2UUB9QWhere to learn more about Prenda:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/prendalearnWebsite - https://www.prenda.comYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn6GcJFx_Yh1CpKzUUuzzQgLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellysmith35/Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website: www.enrollhand.com
Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com
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Our guest today is Felix Ohswald. He is the CEO of GoStudent, an online tutoring company that just raised 70 million euros and is growing like a rocketship in Europe. In this episode, we talk about the origin story of GoStudent, Felix's views on what makes a learning experience successful, his tips on operating a growing educational institutions, and his regional and global plans to consolidate the fragmented tutoring market.
05:24 - Felix and his team made a hard turn from a model that was very engaging for students but not financially viable to a business model that is both profitable and creates excellent learning outcomes.09:26 - GoStudent is moving fast to be the first in Europe. A first-mover advantage is a key stragegy for them.11:25 - Educating prospects in a consultative sale process is becoming more important. Talking to prospects, Felix saw that they were not really understanding the offer and even what solution they want to experience.15:24 - You can think of managing students in a lifecycle like customers. They come asking for one thing, then you solve it and move to the next thing. Competency based or mastery based learning is the epitomy of a student lifecycle.27:52 - At the end of the day, convenience and the best products will always win. When you have this extreme focus on these things, you can, you can make it everywhere. And that's, that's where we focus on.33:48 - Analytics and metrics can inform the success of a learning experience significantly. Looking at KPIs, you find insights, you find bright spots and can double down on them.Wheree to learn more about GoStudent:Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/gostudent-gmbhWebsite - https://www.gostudent.org/enArticle - https://medium.com/emerge-edtech-insights/idea-to-series-a-gostudent-65068968b68dWhere to learn more about Enrollhand: Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/ -
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Our guest today is Victoria Ransom, the CEO at Prisma. Victoria is a serial entrepreneur from New Zealand, having sold her last company to Google and is currently living in the U S with her partner and co-founder Alain Chuard. We are going to talk about their newest venture Prisma, a full-time virtual program (with a physical component) for middle school learners. Prisma is a full-stack connected learning network that is rethinking school from first principles.
Listen and take note of what happens when you combine a stellar team, great technology and a state-of-the-art, progressive learning framework.
In our discussion, we cover:
Many education leaders integrate peer learning, but at Prisma they have thought deeply about how learning from & teaching another child is so beneficial.
Victoria seems an inflection point before middle school, where kids start racing after grades and tests. Prisma catches them before middle school starts to keep and kindle their sense of wonder.
A coach appears as the governor of Wisconsin, a task force is put on a major water problem. Is it a classroom or a Hollywood set? Kids get clues and reports. Curiosity and motivation kick in. They launch a PR campaign, a budget...oh, and hit all their learning goals as well.
Teachers still do so much grunt work, so much waste, so much multitasking that takes their focus off the learners. Prisma is using technology and learning science to strip away the noise and let their coaches focus on delivering a pure, seamless learning experience.
Zoom doesn't cut it for the kiddos. Victoria is bursting with ideas, both for sync & async learning that enrich and gamify the learning experience. One example: Expressing support in a virtual setting
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:
The concept of Hard Fun by Seymour Papert - http://www.papert.org/articles/HardFun.htmlPrisma's Learning Framework - https://www.joinprisma.com/frameworkPrisma LIVE - https://www.joinprisma.com/prisma-liveWhere to learn more about the guest:
Prisma's Twitter account - https://twitter.com/joinprismaVictoria's Twitter account - https://twitter.com/victoria_ransomAlain's Twitter account - https://twitter.com/AlainChuardWebsite - https://www.joinprisma.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website: www.enrollhand.com
Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com
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Our guest today is Ryan Delk, the co-founder and CEO at Primer. Ryan spent the last decade building tech companies at Square, Gumroad and Omni. He has now co-founded Primer to free the next generation of kids to be more ambitious, more creative, and to think for themselves, starting with homeschool.In this episode, we discuss Ryan's ambitious plans for the future of Primer, how parents are equally important to kids in the learning equation, why observing the "user-experience" is so important, why not stratifying by age creates some sort of magic and much more.Listen and take note of how Primer creates ambitious, global communities of learners based first and foremost on children's interests.Where to learn more about Primer:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/withprimerWebsite - https://withprimer.comTeam - https://withprimer.com/teamWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website: www.enrollhand.com
Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com
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Our guest today is Kelly from Galileo XP. Kelly and her co-founder Vlad redesigned school from scratch. Galileo a global online school soon to have access to physical spaces as well.
9:35 - We have students as young as eight and even some seven year olds that are actually facilitating this meeting and asking their peers. "Can you show me your schedule? What did you do yesterday? How is that science project?" And yeah. They can have this conversation together.21:14 - A lot of online schools imagine "Oh, they can learn all the courses. It's all in asynchronous, it's self directed. You can do it by yourself", but if I want to learn something and really see progress, I need to be accountable to someone. Even for adults, they have these quiet focus groups where you can go and learn things and take breaks together. Putting this in for children as well and helping them. They're already meeting on zoom outside of their class time. So getting that peer to peer learning there.22:00 - We see it as a human-centered operating system. We have all of the resources within and then the educators are there to help bring this collaboration together. We need to negotiate, we need to connect and we need to work on projects together. How can students be prepared to go out in the world if they're in the same class with the same age group from K-12? Giving them different opportunities, different cultures, a lot of exchanges happening between ideas and across the world.31:20 - Everything we do is still an experiment. So whether or not the students are responding well to it, benefiting from it, learning from it, we're here for the students, listening to them, getting their input, also with the parents, and making sure that they are the focus of the growth here. 33:15 - We have a delight team. Every family that joins is assigned a delight officer and this person will see them in the transition period. So making sure that all their questions are asked, they have a point of contact. We know it takes more than one adult to help them there, making sure that this is a 10 star experience for everyone that joined.Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:The Galileo Daily Checkin https://galileoxp.com/check-inGalileo parent interviews https://galileoxp.com/parentsInside the Kernel podcast https://player.fm/series/inside-the-kernel-by-galileoFree Self-Directed Learning Course and Learning Network https://app.galileoxp.com/signupWhere to learn more about Kelly:Twitter - https://twitter.com/kelly_edtech?lang=enWebsite - https://galileoxp.com/Where to learn more about Enrollhand: Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/
Listen and take note of how Kelly and the Galileo team transitions students into self-directed learning, inject learning experiences with passion and provide a 10-star experience for everyone that joins.
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Our guest today is Brian Tobal. Brian used to be a teacher at the Harlem Children's Zone, then worked as a researcher, and then he spent the last few years building lots of educational software, and curriculum for schools, universities and businesses. Now, Brian has started SchoolHouse with his co-founder, to have parents get together and create microschools or learning pods in their own homes or in flexible spaces.In this episode, Brian and I discuss what it takes for an educational program to find product-market fit. This means that the students are happy and engaged, they are succesfull in their learning goals, and the experience is amazing for everyone involved, so that they all keep coming back for more.Listen and take note of how to find this magical fit in any learning experience you create.
06:38 - "The founding principle is that the teacher's attention is the most valuable piece in the educational brew or ecosystem. If you really want to have a high quality educational experience, you'd increase the amount of teacher attention that each child is receiving."09:21 - "The bet was that we could take outstanding teachers and give them high autonomy, and it would produce better educational outcomes. And that turns out to be true."13:45 - "You're abstracting away whatever's unnecessary, you're matching the right teacher (with the right philosophy and experience) with the family and what they're looking for. And then a group is formed around that. So it's a bit like product-teacher-market fit. Market being the family. You're basically making sure that the right teacher and the right family are interacting ."23:04 - "The most interesting thing to me is that when we removed all the prescriptive schedules and cells and bells, (I can't remember who said that, but I thought it was a good phrase), they move faster. That's interesting. Let's push on that. Let's use that."27:37 - "Maybe the way of thinking about it: If you have an assembly line, attention doesn't matter. If you're a sculptor, attention is everything. And our teachers aren't on an assembly line anymore. They're working with the marble in front of them."
In our discussion, we cover:Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:
Can a School Have Product-Market Fit? by Brian TobalWhat is the Orton-Gillingham Approach?Bloom's 2 sigma problemLive Q&A with SchoolHouse CEO Brian TobalWhere to learn more about Brian:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/briantobalLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-tobal-a4946911Website - https://www.getschoolhouse.com/Email - [email protected]Where to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/ -
It has become popular to sneer at our education system’s factory model.
We call for the death of schools in favor of Airbnb-like learning communities. Our SAT/ACT testing culture, our boring direct-instruction content-dumping, our mental health issues - these are easy targets.
But schools can thrive, and many are doing so. Only the job of the school, and the teacher, needs to change.
To accompany our recent interview, I wanted to write a short book review of Thrive: How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution by Grant Lichtman. Grant is a thought leader and author. He speaks, writes, and works with fellow educators to help them innovate. Educational leaders, as well as a wider array of pundits on education, need to internalize the ideas Grant lays out in his most recent book.
For example:
How to ask your community what your value proposition should beHow to learn from what the corporate world is doingHow to make hard choices: “A strategy is choosing what not to do”How to accelerate movement by removing barriers. (Change is like a muscle)How to research, design, prototype, test, again and again, slowly then fasterHow to reveal what your new job is!How to take more riskHow to increase the innovation DNA of your school (most schools lack innovation DNA)At Enrollhand, we often meet school leaders who feel out of touch, whose schools are stagnating. We share with them many of the concepts below, but Grant has a silver tongue and does a way better job of telling it like it is!
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