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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
Transforming K12 by focusing on the Context
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
K-12 School Success, 7 things we learned started Schoolze
A deep dive into how Schoolze's current mission evolved over past 4 years!
Why am I writing this? Few months ago, I wrote about how a product demo to a group of international customers transformed Schoolze’s mission into a K-12 School Success Platform . Since then, I’ve been sleeping, eating, drinking, and dreaming about one question: What actually make...more