Essays
Classroom
Why Bottom-Up Education Reform Is Capped
A teacher can change a classroom, but a classroom cannot change a district. Here is why.
For the past several years, as we were building Schoolze and later 21CS, I believed in a specific kind of magic.. I believed that if we could just find enough "Hero Teachers," we could change education from the bottom up. I thought that if we gave the most innovative educators th...more
Promoting Inclusion: Empowering Classroom Engagement
A real classroom moment in 2016 reshaped how Schoolze approaches inclusive, accessible communication for every family.
Strong family school communication is one of the most important predictors of student success. Yet in many classrooms, well-intentioned messages never fully reach home, not because parents don’t care, but because the format or language creates invisible barriers. Over the years,...more