Essays
After years trying to fix schools, I realized the answer is outside them.

After years trying to fix schools, I realized the answer is outside them. Today is the first day of 2023, and I've been doing some deep thinking. You see, a couple of years ago, I was all set to revolutionize education with our product focused on 21st-century skills. But then, th...more
Curriculum is an operational forcing function for standardization. The system is optimized for credentials, not skills.
I spent years thinking curriculum was the problem. I believed that if we could just teach the right things in the right way, education would improve. But after seeing our 21CS skills platform collect digital dust while our fundraising tools thrived, I realized a deeper truth: cur...more
If we fail to measure the right things, we will land up growing and making the wrong thing better.

If you hear someone say out loud “School Success,” what comes to your mind? Maybe a picture of a hustling and bustling school corridor where a bunch of students are walking around in neatly tucked school uniforms? Or a school lobby where an authoritative adult is walking with pri...more
Future won’t reward obedience and conformity. But schools still teach for it.

As we reach the middle of 2020, it is clear the world has changed forever. The pandemic has left a mark on how we live, how we work, and how we teach our children. For years, we told students that if they follow the rules and get good grades, they will be successful. But as we lo...more
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