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Send us a Text Message.Joe Connor is the CEO & Founder of Odyssey, a company that partners with state agencies to administer school choice programs. Odyssey currently serves over 140,000 students by helping them access more than $400 million in state funding for education. Joe started his career as a teacher and school leader at the KIPP and Rocketship Education school networks. After working in schools for several years, Joe attended law school where he focused his research on private school choice and education policy. Joe practiced litigation while advocating for education choice, including working on Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, a landmark school choice case. Joe previously founded SchoolHouse, a private school network before founding Odyssey. He has also worked as legal counsel for Match Education, AltSchool, the Notre Dame Ace Academies, and Primer.Recommended Resources:

Sign Up For The Newsletter: https://jonathanraymond.com/#newsletter In today's episode of Good Authority, Jonathan and Ruben Harris sat down to talk about their shared experiences as business owners, founders, and CEOs navigating the tech space amidst the massive disruption brought on by AI. They explored topics like childhood, music, and the ways we relate to our minds and hearts. Ruben detailed his journey from musician to co-founder and CEO of Career Karma, highlighting his transition from music to investment banking and the founding and growth of Career Karma. Jonathan and Ruben discussed the evolving landscape of careers, the future of AI, and its impact on job markets. They touched on the potential of AI to enhance human capabilities and the importance of maintaining balance between the mind and heart. They shared personal stories, including Ruben's long-standing passion for the cello and Jonathan's reflections on his daughter's piano lessons and their family music sessions. As you listen, reflect on the significance of embracing emotions, the potential of AI to enhance human capabilities if we manage it correctly, and the enduring value of relationships and community in achieving true happiness.   About Ruben Harris: Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an Advisor for Forge and organized Atlanta's first Healthcare Hackathon. Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare and education. Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how he moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later. After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise. Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker focused on Food, Consumer, and Retail companies in Chicago and Atlanta. As a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he recruited others to focus on issues related to food security, climate change, and agriculture. In 2010, Ruben worked on operational improvements for Senior Living Communities after completing a double major in Business Administration and Music. During college, Ruben organized 50+ events for non-profits, athletes, and celebrities including Tyrese, Kim Kardashian, and Jay-Z. Ruben has been playing the cello for ~25 years, taught music, performed in venues all over the world - including Carnegie Hall, and landed placements from Def Jam. He is also an active member of the NAACP. Connect with Ruben: https://x.com/rubenharris https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenharris/ Continue the conversation with Jonathan: https://www.instagram.com/agoodauthority Try Ren, the AI Leadership Coach: https://rencoach.com/

In this episode we speak with Adewale Yusuf, CEO and Co-founder of AltSchool Africa, a company causing a seismic shift in the way learning is perceived and consumed in Africa with the goal of enabling ten million Africans with profitable skills by 2030.  AltSchool is a fully-virtual platform where Africans, regardless of who they are, can access global standard learning resources.  In addition to his role at AltSchool he currently serves on the board of Life Beyond Disability, a non-profit advocating for the rights and empowerment of persons living with disability in Africa and is a co-organizer of Africans in tech global. 

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODETeach Your Kids: LinkedIn | Website | X | Instagram | Substack | Facebook | TikTokManisha: LinkedIn | X | Instagram | FacebookLesley Grossblatt: LinkedIn | Medium | XJoin our premium community with expert support and adviceSparking Independent Learning with Strewing | Modulo - Lesley GrossblattTeach Your Kids Podcast EpisodesRaising Gifted Learners With Megan Cannella: Insights From a Gifted Learning Specialist About Identifying and Supporting Gifted KidsDr. Gordon Neufeld on Redefining Parental Power & ConnectionBut what about socialization?Teach Your Kids Blog PostsBut what about childcare? - Teach Your KidsBooks and ArticlesFree to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life - Peter GrayHold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers - Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté MDThe Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: For Ages 10 & Under - Judy Galbraith M.A.The Gifted Teen Survival Guide: Smart, Sharp, and Ready for (Almost) Anything  - Judy Galbraith M.A.Unschooling Podcasts and Websites The Exploring Unschooling PodcastUnschooling Mom2MomStrewing CalendarUnschooling SchoolOnline ClassesCreativeLiveMasterClassKhan Academy Related ResourcesHomeschool Association of CaliforniaSudbury school - WikipediaWhat Are You Learning?Young StorytellersThis site contains product affiliate links. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links.  Time Codes00:00:00 — Introduction: Manisha welcomes Lesley Grossblatt00:01:09 — Lesley shares her personal journey into unschooling00:03:53 — Discussing the concept of crisis homeschooling00:10:40 — The significance of the de-schooling process in unschooling00:17:05 — Lesley's perspective on the learner-driven approach of unschooling00:21:17 — Utilizing video games and technology as educational tools in unschooling00:29:48 — How Lesley tailored Japanese language learning for her child's interests00:34:31 — Addressing fears and misconceptions about unschooling00:38:45 — Lesley's older child's transition from unschooling to traditional high school00:46:40 — Exploring the concept of strewing in unschooling00:52:20 — Balancing unschooling with full-time work and nurturing children's independence00:55:30 — Lesley discusses integrating life skills into unschooling and shares her experience working with education entrepreneurs00:59:02 — The importance of community support in the unschooling journey01:03:25 — How Lesley manages time and resources for unschooling01:07:00 — Final thoughts and conclusion of the interviewThis podcast is made possible through a generous grant from the Vela Education Fund VELA Education Fund is catalyzing a vibrant alternative education ecosystem. VELA provides trust-based funding to entrepreneurs, fosters community-building and knowledge-sharing, and increases visibility through storytelling that promotes cultural awareness and acceptance of the out-of-system space. Today, VELA serves the largest community of out-of-system education entrepreneurs in the country, with over 2,000 community members. About half of VELA's community members operate small learning environments, and the other half are ecosystem and community builders offering direct services and support across the out-of-system space. Learn more at velaedfund.org.

 ---> Check out the Causeartist Partners here.---> Subscribe to the Causeartist Newsletter here.In this episode of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, I speak with Ruben Harris, Founder and CEO of Career Karma, on using Software Development Bootcamps to re-skill America and make high paying tech jobs accessible to all individuals and communities.Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare and education.Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later.After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise.Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker focused on Food, Consumer, and Retail companies in Chicago and Atlanta. As a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he recruited others to focus on issues related to food security, climate change, and agriculture.Career Karma is a member of Y Combinator's 2019 class and since then has been helping people that want to become software engineers by matching them with the right coding bootcamp and supporting them throughout their careers. Hundreds of millions of people will need to change jobs in the coming years. Career Karma gives them a placement quiz and gets them accepted at coding bootcamps and other training programs. With income-sharing agreements growing in popularity, plenty of job skill providers will be willing to pay to enroll the highest potential students.Another epic initiative by Ruben and his team is their current Reskill America campaign. Covid - 19 has left over 42 million Americans without jobs over the last few weeks — disproportionately impacting low - income communities, women, and people of color. ---> Check out the Causeartist Partners here.---> Subscribe to the Causeartist Newsletter here.Listen to more Causeartist podcast shows hereFollow Grant on Twitter and LinkedInFollow Causeartist on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram

Ruben Harris is the CEO of Career Karma. Ruben is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an Advisor for Forge and organized Atlanta's first Healthcare Hackathon. Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare and education. Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how he moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later. After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise. Connect with Ruben on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenharris/ www.CareerKarma.com Connect with Alli and Peter SUPPORT US BY SHOPPING DISRUPT EDUCATION MERCH - https://disrupt-education-2.creator-spring.com/ Peter Hostrawser LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterhostrawser/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/peterhostrawser/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/disrupteducation1/ TW: twitter.com/PeterHostrawser Website: https://www.peterhostrawser.com Alli Privitt LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alliprivitt/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/myfriendalli/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/My-Friend-Alli/100070164684007/ Website: https://www.myfriendalli.com/ Check out our sponsors below DistrictZero Empower your learners to achieve self awareness, resiliency, and improved emoitional climate across learner groups within 15 days! Sign up for a FREE 30 minute consultation with a DistrictZero team member today! CLICK HERE To SIGN UP! https://bit.ly/3pNu5VG spikeview You are more than a grade and test score. Colleges, internships, jobs, any opportunity needs to see that! Head to www.spikeview.com and build your portfolio for FREE and start heading towards your dreams today! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/disrupt-educ/support

Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor, and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare, and education.  Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how he moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later.  After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise.  Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker focused on Food, Consumer, and Retail companies in Chicago and Atlanta. As a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he recruited others to focus on issues related to food security, climate change, and agriculture. In 2010, Ruben worked on operational improvements for Senior Living Communities after completing a double major in Business Administration and Music.  During college, Ruben organized 50+ events for non-profits, athletes, and celebrities including Tyrese, Kim Kardashian, and Jay-Z. Ruben has been playing the cello for ~25 years, taught music, performed in venues all over the world - including Carnegie Hall, and landed placements from Def Jam. He is also an active member of the NAACP. Learn more about how Ruben got Career Karma started, his incredible story, and his panel at this year's Florida Chamber Future of Florida Forum.  – Check out Career Karma: https://careerkarma.com/  For more segments like these, subscribe to Small Biz Florida and Follow the official Small Biz Florida Instagram! This and the following segments were recorded at this year's annual Florida Chamber Future of Florida Forum hosted at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. – To learn more about The Florida Chamber, visit their website here.

We cover a variety of topics, including, but not limited to: -The world's largest young population in Africa with 700M people -The power of building an audience -The key of consistency in building that audience -Tying IRL events with an audience -The competitive advantage AltSchool with have versus other ed tech companies -Why companies outside of Africa wont be able to solve this problem

Education is becoming more and more accessible thanks to today's incredible tech innovations and movement towards hybrid learning models. However, it's one thing to deliver quality education, but it's another thing to deliver quality education at scale. So how can we ensure that education is scaled without losing its quality? Joseph Connor will be answering this question in our upcoming event. Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Agora, the leading platform for managing education savings accounts. Prior to starting Agora, Joseph founded and ran SchoolHouse, a network of micro-schools.He scaled the network to 50 schools in 10 states serving several hundred students. Joseph started his career as a teacher and school leader at the KIPP and Rocketship Education charter school networks.He has also worked as legal counsel for school organizations and companies including Match Education, AltSchool, the Notre Dame Ace Academies, Prenda, and Primer.Join Joseph Connor and Vlad Stan for a conversation about how we can scale our existing education models without compromising on quality. Let's keep the inspiring discussion going! Discover our events, articles, and more with these links:InspirEd MagazineInspirEd EventsJoin our mailing listYou Tube

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 130 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Kevin Lee on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Kevin Lee is a Co-Founder of immi, a better-for-you Asian American food brand that creates the world's first low-carb, high-protein, and 100% plant-based instant ramen. Previously, he led food & beverage investing as a Principal VC at Pear Ventures and is an angel investor in 30+ companies. Prior to investing, he built the world's largest online product manager community and worked as a Product Manager at AltSchool and Kabam. He grew up in a food family helping his grandparents harvest rose apples from their produce farms in Taiwan. To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianhustlenetwork/support

Adewale Yusuf is a serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building tech businesses in Africa. He is the co-founder of TalentQL, Techpoint Africa and AltSchool Africa. Techpoint Africa is a digital media company that amplifies the best innovations out of Africa through its publications, data, and events. Techpoint Africa hosts a variety of events, all-day seminars and conferences, including Techpoint Build, which is the largest tech and startup event in West and East Africa. After stepping down as CEO of Techpoint Africa, Adewale is on to his new ventures - TalentQL & AltSchool Africa. TalentQL is on a mission is to democratise access to opportunities for African tech talents while AltSchool is an educational program designed to arm young Africans with the skills and knowledge required to launch your tech career. In 2021, TalentQL went through the Techstars Toronto Incubator Program. Learn tech skills with AltSchool: https://altschoolafrica.com/ Get a tech job with TalentQL: https://talentql.com/ Follow Adewale on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdewaleYusuf ----------- This series of Founders Connect has been bought to you in partnership with #AfricaVerified, a new news channel that was set up to seek out and amplify factual stories from reputable and trustworthy news sources. Their flagship #BeyondTheHeadlines video series is a deep dive into the topics and issues that really matter to Africa today – check it out for yourself at https://www.youtube.com/c/africaverified --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/founders-connect/message

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Ruben Harris (@rubenharris), Co-Founder and CEO of Career Karma, which is helping over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through their directory of 9,000 bootcamps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews.Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an Advisor for Forge and organized Atlanta's first Healthcare Hackathon. Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare and education.Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales and later Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise.Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker. During college, Ruben organized 50+ events for non-profits, athletes, and celebrities including Tyrese, Kim Kardashian, and Jay-Z. Ruben has been playing the cello for ~25 years, taught music, performed in venues all over the world - including Carnegie Hall, and landed placements from Def Jam. He is also an active member of the NAACP.Website: Career KarmaLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rubenharrisTwitter: @rubenharrisInstagram: instagram.com/rubenharrisEmail: ruben@careerkarma.comShow Notes: What Career Karma is and how they've expanded and evolved in recent years How the student loan bubble and “the great resignation” have led Career Karma to work more closely with employers Career Karma's secret sauce of community building How social audio rooms have played a part in the growth of Career Karma The Breaking into Startups podcast Ruben's view on audio, communication, and community in the Future of Work and Learning How Ruben has approached personal branding and taking control of your narrative Relationship building on the internet Ruben's advice for what employers and recruiters need to do differently to identify and develop talent The 110 initiative Education as an employee benefit Ruben's perspective on juggling part time roles and the freelance economy Career navigating as a social experience Social capital and virtual currency More about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 300+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The Vitalize Team:Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/

Show Notes: Joseph Connor is a startup founder, attorney, and teacher. He is the co-founder of SchoolHouse, a micro school company. Joseph is a teacher and lawyer who loves helping great educators start schools. Joseph founded SchoolHouse, an at home micro school company, and helped them scale to over 50 schools in 9 states. He started his career as a teacher and school leader at KIPP and Rocketship Education. He has also worked as legal counsel for school organizations and companies, including Match Education, AltSchool, the Notre Dame Ace Academies and Primer. He has a passion for helping great teachers broaden their reach. Key Takeaways: 00:04:18 What are some of the drivers for Families and Educators to do something different? 00:08:55 Struggle between public and private school. 00:18:37 What do you predict will happen with K-12 as the world changes? 00:24:28 What will be the most successful model of school? 00:28:44 What would you want to do next? 00:33:54 If you could offer a metaphor comparing conventional school with Schoolhouse..? Quotes: Parents want a school that reflects their family's values and their community's values. And when there's none in that school, that's I think when they start looking for alternatives like microshool, homeschooling. Unless public schools are able to adapt to some of the innovations, you'll see a decline in the traditional public schools here in America as parents increasingly reach out to those different options. Social Links: LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-connor-b6a96a16 Twitter | https://twitter.com/josephjconnor and https://twitter.com/getschoolhouse Website | https://josephjconnor.com/ and https://www.getschoolhouse.com/

In this special episode, Alex and Ben Kornell of Cambium Education, Altschool and Altitude Learning talk about some of the major trends in Edtech in the milestone year of 2021 and predictions for 2022.Trends covered include:- COVID Fueled Disruption and Edtech Acceleration- Labor Shortages in Schools and Teacher Burnout- Nationwide Mental Health Crises for School-Age Children- Major Edtech Mergers and Acquisitions- Edtech Matures as a Technology Sector (From Edu-slow to Techno-speed)- New Edtech Unicorns and IPOs- Employers Dip Their Toes and Start to Change the Center of Gravity for Edtech- Rise of Indian and European Edtech and Slowdown in Chinese Edtech- The rise of CBCs and the "Educreator" (Teacher-Influencer-Creator Economy)- The Future of the Gap Year

In this episode, we speak to Ben Kornell of Cambiar Education, who was most recently the CEO of Altschool  as it was acquired by Higher Ground Education in 2021. Ben is a longtime edtech executive with educational roots- five years in the classroom - as well as experience in healthcare, and he speaks in this episode about how we might borrow some of the best practices in healthcare to improve education, as well as how to scale the educational practices of the best teachers in every school. Resources: Ben names several innovative companies in this podcast including:Crimson Education: an international small-group based high school, based in New Zealand)Third Space Learning: a high-dosage tutoring platform based in Sri Lanka)Book and Blog Recommendations:Work by Thich Nhat Hahn Class Clowns by Jonathan A. KneeThe Flight of a Butterfly or the Path of a Bullet?: Using Technology to Transform Teaching and Learning by Larry CubanLarry Cuban's Blog "Larry Cuban on School Reform"

Bharat Mediratta is the first Coinbase Fellow. Previously, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google, CTO at AltSchool, and CTO at Dropbox. Get on the email list at www.softwareatscale.dev

In this bonus episode, I speak with Ruben Harris, Founder and CEO of Career Karma, on using Software Development Bootcamps to re-skill America and make high paying tech jobs accessible to all individuals and communities.Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare and education.Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later.After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise.Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker focused on Food, Consumer, and Retail companies in Chicago and Atlanta. As a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he recruited others to focus on issues related to food security, climate change, and agriculture.Career Karma is a member of Y Combinator's 2019 class and since then has been helping people that want to become software engineers by matching them with the right coding bootcamp and supporting them throughout their careers. Hundreds of millions of people will need to change jobs in the coming years. Career Karma gives them a placement quiz and gets them accepted at coding bootcamps and other training programs. With income-sharing agreements growing in popularity, plenty of job skill providers will be willing to pay to enroll the highest potential students.Another epic initiative by Ruben and his team is their current Reskill America campaign. Covid - 19 has left over 42 million Americans without jobs over the last few weeks — disproportionately impacting low - income communities, women, and people of color.The company is partnering with Diversity & Inclusion leaders and organizations to leverage the platform towards raising over $500,000 and giving away thousands of laptops to these communities impacted by Covid-19.Mentioned in this episode:State of the Bootcamp Market Report 2020Income Share Agreements (ISAs) – State of the Market 2019FlockJaySVAcademyKapor CenterListen to more Causeartist podcasts here.Check out:ImpactInvestor.io - Discover impact investors from around the world.Podcast Made with TransistorPodcast cover design Made with CanvaBuild amazing web platforms with Webflow

有没有想过，一个人获得「认知成长」，需要什么样的教育。 这个夏天，「双减」政策的正式出台让课外教培市场走进了寒冬，也给了我们一个重新思考「教育」的契机。作业和补习重负被减掉之后，好的教育应该关注什么？ 人的认知发展由记忆力、注意力，情绪觉察和人际交往等多个「积木」组成，有了这些作为基础，孩子们才能搭建出精巧的语言和数学能力。而柯李的长期观察则告诉我们，认知能力更强的孩子有着更长远的良好发展。 杨轩是本期节目的客座主播，柯李专注于青少年儿童的早期发展研究、并对国内的义务教育质量有一手的调研经历。在这期节目中，我们从内卷的焦虑说起，谈到了学校教育的现状与困境，并尝试回答真正好的教育是什么样的，为什么快慢班和分层教学不合理，以及如何培养认知能力等话题。 考卷有标准答案，人生却没有。优秀的教育者不应该仅仅关注成绩，而是为孩子们创造一个没有危险的自由探索的原野，支持 TA 们找到合理的个体发展。 关键词：#儿童成长 #教育 #认知能力 ▼主播 徐涛，声动活泼联合创始人 杨轩，36氪原创内容总监 ▼嘉宾 柯李，北京师范大学教师、中国基础教育质量监测协同创新中心地方服务平台副主任 ▼主要话题 [07:34] 成绩只是外在表现，孩子身体里有各种可能 [13:33] 认知能力更强的孩子长远的发展更好 [25:58] 过于内卷可能会打击孩子的自信心 [29:36] 优秀的教育者不是上帝视角，而是给到最适合的支持 [50:23] 棉花糖实验测试与自制力 [53:33] 为什么家长给孩子设计人生路线很扯 [56:27] 教育不是一门低成本、回本快的生意 ▼延伸阅读 - 关于进一步减轻义务教育阶段学生作业负担和校外培训负担的意见 (http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2021-07/24/c_1127691094.htm) - 精细动作能力（Fine motor skill）：指个体主要凭借手以及手指等部位的小肌肉或小肌肉群的运动，在感知觉、注意等多方面心理活动的配合下完成特定任务的能力。 - 西南偏南峰会（South By Southwest）：始于 1987 年，每年三月中旬在美国德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的涉及电影、互动媒体、音乐节和会议的联合活动。 - AltSchool : 2013 年创立的总部位于旧金山的教育和技术公司，专注于为儿童提供个性化、项目制的的教学系统。2021 年已转型成为一家教育公司。 - Minerva School：2012 年于美国旧金山成立的新型大学，教学课程是根据人类行为动机、学习方法和记忆模式而研发的。 - 普莱尔（William Thierry）：德国生理学家和实验心理学家，对自己的孩子从出生到三岁每天做系统的观察，整理写成了著作「儿童心理」，被称为儿童心理学奠基人。 ▼相关节目 不许内卷，教培行业影响几何 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/60fde9b5ab448bea0872a6fe) #161 临近毕业季，聊聊职场与不内卷的教育 (https://etw.fm/161) #167 如果不走独木桥 (https://etw.fm/167) #44 科学和技术能让家庭教育和过去不同吗 (https://guiguzaozhidao.fireside.fm/parentlab1) ▼音乐 - Book Bag - E's Jammy Jams - The Path To Innovation - Airae - Mars Adventure - Brendon Moeller - Fields of Hope - Magnus Ringblom - ES_For the Sake of You - Kikoru ▼Staff 监制^ Amanda 后期^ 可特 运营^ Yao 实习编辑^ 楚樵 ▼关于节目 Bigger Than Us，渴望多元视角，用发问来探索世界。 ▼关于我们 声动活泼的宗旨是「用声音碰撞世界」，并致力于为人们提供源源不断的思考养料。 - 我们还有这些播客：What's Next｜科技早知道 (https://guiguzaozhidao.fireside.fm/episodes)、反潮流俱乐部 (https://fanchaoliuclub.fireside.fm/)、泡腾VC (https://popvc.fireside.fm/) - 欢迎在各大社交媒体上与我们互动，搜索 声动活泼 - 期待你与我们发邮件反馈，邮箱地址是：ting@sheng.fm - 如果你喜欢我们的节目，也欢迎打赏支持：https://etw.fm/donation Special Guest: 柯李.

Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an Advisor for Forge and organized Atlanta's first Healthcare Hackathon. Over the past couple of years, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare and education. Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how he moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later. After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise. Prior to working in tech, Ruben worked as an Investment Banker focused on Food, Consumer, and Retail companies in Chicago and Atlanta. As a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he recruited others to focus on issues related to food security, climate change, and agriculture. In 2010, Ruben worked on operational improvements for Senior Living Communities after completing a double major in Business Administration and Music. During college, Ruben organized 50+ events for non-profits, athletes, and celebrities including Tyrese, Kim Kardashian, and Jay-Z. Ruben has been playing the cello for ~25 years, taught music, performed in venues all over the world - including Carnegie Hall, and landed placements from Def Jam. He is also an active member of the NAACP.

In this episode, LaTecia sits down with Career Karma’s, Ruben Harris, to discuss the future of work. The two explore Ruben’s work at Career Karma, his big predictions on technology, and how being a creator is a superpower. About the Guest: Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an Advisor for Forge and organized Atlanta's first Healthcare Hackathon. Over the past decade, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare, and education. Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later. After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise. He is now using his skills as the CEO of Career Karma, the easiest way to find a job training program online. With a community of 150K+ people from all backgrounds and professions, Career Karma is helping over 1 million people navigate their careers each month through advice and coaching. Sponsors: LinkedIn Visionary Rising

Listen now | Bharat Mediratta was a Distinguished Engineer at Google, CTO at Altschool, and CTO at Dropbox. At Google, he worked on GWS (Google Web Server), a system that I’ve always been curious about, especially since its Wikipedia entry calls it “one of the most guarded components of Google's infrastructure”. Get on the email list at www.softwareatscale.dev

我们在往期节目中聊过，很多问题都需要通过教育来解决。但教育是否真的能有效果？将它作为解决方案后又会遇到什么问题？ 本期节目其实聊得非常随意。两位嘉宾身为教育创新践行者，对教育革新却没有我想象中那么乐观。他们认为，优质教育是难以复制的稀缺品，而我们现在又恰好站在历史的转折点，迫切需要更多的优质教育。虽然他们也会强调“教育的核心是素养”，但这方面一般无法用简单的灌输和传授来实现；他们也会提到“教育是一种自我看见的过程，而不是自我评价的过程”，因此老师的定位就非常微妙，况且自身也需要很高的素养。 希望这期节目能给大家带来启发，都能成为有自驱力和专注力，内心丰盈的人。 【嘉宾】 * 申华章，一土集团 (https://www.etuschool.org/about-us-zh/#anc-co-founder)CEO，自媒体「奴隶社会 (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/mp/profile_ext?action=home&__biz=MzA3NDMyOTcxMQ==&scene=124#wechat_redirect)」创办人 * 王熙乔，探月学院 (https://moonshotacademy.cn/)首席探索官/北京学院院长，曾任北大附中成长中心副主任 【主要话题】 * [2:10] 在人类历史的变迁中，教育如何随之发生变化 * [7:10] 创立创新教育学校的初衷：为什么觉得当初的想法过于简单 * [13:00] 优质教育究竟是什么样的 * [20:20] 历史上的表象教育和底层教育 * [26:00] 成全式教育和阶级固化下的精英教育 * [32:13] 什么样的教育是最高效的 * [44:33] 教育的变化将如何改变人和社会 * [47:38] 美国的教育会如何变化 * [52:38] 中国式教育的问题和改变 * [1:02:02] 新型教育的创办过程是如何影响思维的 * [1:04:26] 一些自我和他人教育的Takeaways 【相关概念】 * Altschool (https://outschool.com/about)，总部位于硅谷，成立于2015年的针对3-18岁的实时在线教育平台。 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/8/8dd8a56f-9636-415a-8c00-f9ca6778e511/tt944xYg.jpeg * [Minerva Schools at KGI](https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/），总部位于旧金山，是一所新型大学 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/8/8dd8a56f-9636-415a-8c00-f9ca6778e511/UWP5VPKd.png 【音乐】 * Book Bag-E's Jammy Jams 【关于我们】 网站：etw.fm (https://www.etw.fm/) 新浪微博：声东击西ETW 邮件：etwstudio@gmail.com 支持我们：https://www.etw.fm/donation Special Guests: 王熙乔 and 申华章. Support 声东击西 Special Guests: 王熙乔 and 申华章.

For most of us, hearing something just once isn’t nearly enough to commit it to memory. But with today’s crowded curriculum, sometimes one explanation is all kids get. Ten years ago, Sal Khan set out to change that with his Khan Academy videos, which let kids replay lessons as many times as they want. EdSurge sat down with Khan to discuss his vision for reinventing schools, his recent focus on testing and what he thinks about the recent stumbles of AltSchool, a nearby network of tech-driven independent schools.

Katie Martin, an ISTE 2018 keynote, talks about the importance of putting learners at the center of your innovation model. She starts with the questions we need to ask ourselves and our students and talks about what learner-center innovation looks like. Get inspired and motivated by listening to Katie. See her ISTE 2019 presentations at www.coolcatteacher.com/katie Sponsor: Advancement Courses Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the offer code COOL20 to get 20% off your professional development. That’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours. You can take courses on helpful topics like social-emotional learning, classroom management, teacher wellness, special education classes and more. You have over 240 graduate-level courses to choose from in 19 different subject areas.  Special ISTE19 Episodes  From Monday, June 17 to Thursday, June 27, the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast will be airing some episodes full of education technology learning from popular ISTE speakers. These are is created particularly so those educators who can't attend will have some special and exciting learning experiences - in just 10 minutes a day. About this episode This is an episode recorded previously with Katie Martin. Katie has four sessions this year at ISTE 2019 and you can find them at  www.coolcatteacher.com/katie - she was a keynote from ISTE 2018. We recorded this after her keynote at ISTE 2018 and are sharing it to get you excited! Katie Martin’s Bio as Submitted Dr. Katie Martin @KatieMartinEdu is the Head of Partnerships- West at AltSchool. Over the last 5 years, she has worked in diverse contexts to learn, research, and support deeper learning for all students. She has also served as a middle school English language arts teacher, instructional coach, and led the district new teacher mentoring program. Katie has a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in middle school education and her Ph.D. and in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on the support that impacts teacher efficacy and retention. Blog: katielmartin.com Book: Learner-Centered Innovation: Spark Curiosity, Ignite Passion, and Unleash Genius

On this episode, we discuss the changing landscape of education, from the public orators of ancient Greece to the on-demand paradigm that rules everything from the classroom to corporate training today.

Sam Franklin is the VP of Schools for AltSchool, a network of tuition-funded pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade lab schools throughout San Francisco and New York City. Prior to his current job, Sam worked as the Executive Director for the Office of Teacher Effectiveness at Pittsburgh Public Schools. Beginning his teaching career as 6th-grade math and science teacher as an AmeriCorps member, Sam went on to receive his MSPPM from Heinz College in 2007. Utilizing the ideas developed in his systems project, Sam founded the Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy (SciTech), one of the highest overall performing public high schools in the city. Earlier this year, Heinz Radio host, Sara Jackson was able to sit down with Sam and pick his mind on topics ranging from how his education at Heinz helped put him on a path to success, to general leadership strategies he has picked up over the years, and where the future of education policy may be going in the U.S. To learn more about Sam, check out his full bio and support information on the AltSchool site, or follow Sam on Twitter @samfranklin1000 For more information about Heinz Radio, or to listen to past episodes, visit heinz-radio.com Incidental music provided by Audiobinger from Free Music Archives.

Dr. Katie Martin is the Head of Partnerships-West at AltSchool. Over the last 5 years, she has worked in diverse contexts to learn, research, and support deeper learning for all students. She has served as a middle school English language teacher, literacy coach, new teacher mentor, university instructor, and coordinator of district programs. Katie is ...

In this episode, we are speaking with Dr. Katie Martin, author of Learner-centered Innovation. Katie is currently Head of Partnerships-West at AltSchool. She works with districts and school systems to create the conditions and leverage technology to support a learner-centric model. She has also served as middle school English language, literacy coach, new teacher mentor and coordinator of district programs…Read more

On this episode, I Zoom in Ben Kornell, VP of Growth, and we chat about AltSchool, public education, and more. Ben brings a combination of hands-on teaching roles in public education, plus executive leadership across industries including education, healthcare, and nonprofits. He began his career as a TFA corps member in 2003 where he taught middle school for many years. Driven by the inequities he experienced in public education, Ben went to Stanford Business School to cultivate the skills needed to impact the system more broadly. In 2013, he returned to education as COO of Envision Charter Schools, and later as Executive Director of Envision Learning Partners, where his team spread Envision Schools' Performance Assessment system to over 70 partner schools and 35,000 students across the country. In his role of VP of Growth for AltSchool, Ben will build partnerships with schools nationwide and collaborate closely with AltSchool's product team to understand how the platform can best support all schools. AltSchool is a partnership between educators and engineers driven to deliver whole-child, personalized learning so all children can reach their potential. Learn more about the school by visiting their website: https://www.altschool.com/

Zal Bilimoria is Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital, one of Silicon Valley's newest entrants to the early stage scene with a $50m fund looking to back founders solving fundamental human problems. Prior to co-founding Refactor, Zal was a Partner @ a16z where he co-led investments in Omada Health, Branch.co, AltSchool, Honor, and more, while helping to launch the firm's Bio Fund. Before becoming an investor, Zal spent 10 years as a PM at Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn. He worked on emerging markets for Windows, became one of the first monetization team members at YouTube, and then  became the 1st Head of Mobile at Netflix and helped start the Sales Solutions business at LinkedIn. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Zal made his way into the world of VC with a16z from the very corporate worlds of Microsoft, Google, Netflix and LinkedIn? 2.) What were Zal's 3 biggest learnings from seeing the internal processes and scaling of a16z? How does a16z use NPS in such a compelling way that it automatically improves founder treatment and interaction within the firm? What was it about a16z that led Zal to believe being insanely curious is the biggest skill of an investor? 3.) What are the signs and leading indicators that a scientist has the mental plasticity and ability to translate into a CEO and business leader? What are the biggest challenges as a VC in assessing whether this plasticity is present? Why does David believe that the very best founders are looking to solve "fundamental human problems"? 4.) Over the last few years we have seen an explosion of deep tech capital, Elad Gil suggested this reminded him of the 2007 cleantech days, does Zal agree with this suggestion? How does Zal think about the common concern of having to carry companies for longer given the extended milestones to prove progress? 5.) Zal has said before his goal is "to build a seed firm to last among the 100s of others", what does Zal believe is crucial to this sustainability of fund and brand? How does Zal evaluate the insanely crowded seed market today? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Zal’s Fave Book: Seveneves Zal’s Most Recent Investment: Solugen As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Zal on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Cooley is a global law firm built around supporting start-ups and the venture capital firms that fund them. Now we have spoken before about their forming the first venture fund in Silicon Valley, and forming more VC funds than any other law firm in the world but Cooley also represents more than 6,000 high-growth startups across the globe – through the full company life cycle. They are the #1 law firm for VC-backed exits (M&A and IPO) ranked by PitchBook, and since 2014 has represented more companies in their IPOs than any other law firm.  Simply head over to Cooley.com or you can check them out at Cooleygo.com.  

We return once again to Continuous Integration tooling, this time with a visual spin. Mike Fotinakis joins Mark and Melanie to discuss how they use Google Cloud Platform to develop Percy, the platform for continuous visual reviews for web apps. Mike Fotinakis Mike is Co-Founder and CEO of Percy, where he is working on problems at the intersection of design, development, and deployment. Mike has previously worked as an engineer at companies including Google, Science Exchange, and AltSchool, and is now enjoying building his first company from the ground up. Sometimes, he even enjoys things that don't involve computers at all, including rock climbing, coffee, classical singing, and scuba diving. Cool things of the week OpenCensus: A Stats Collection and Distributed Tracing Framework blog medium London Zoo trials facial recognition technology to help track elephants in the wild blog Cloud Dataflow and the Tram Challenge youtube Interview Percy site docs Google Kubernetes Engine site docs Google Cloud Storage site docs Google Cloud SQL site docs Redis Labs Cloud site Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator site Ember Conf site Percy.io Question of the week I would love a weekly roundup of news about Google Cloud Platform - where can I get one? This week in GCP medium Where can you find us next? Melanie will be at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend. Mark will be at the Game Developer's Conference | GDC in March.

Backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and created by Max Ventilla of Google, AltSchool is looking to change the face of education in America with its personalized learning platform. AltSchool VP of Growth Ben Kornell joins me and defines what personalized learning is, what AltSchool has learned about personlaized learning in the past four years, why they are partnering with Arcadia Unified, the capabilities of the AltSchool platform, support provided, and the future of AltSchool. For more information on Arcadia's journey to personalized learning please visit www.ausd.net. Visit www.AltSchool.com for more information about AltSchool.

Tom Vander Ark is a titan in the world of education technology. Few have experience as wide and deep as he. His career journey ... - Superintendent of Federal Way Public schools. - Managed $3.5 billion dollars and one-on-one with Bill Gates as the Executive Director of Education for the Gates Foundation. - President of X Prize, an organization that runs multimillion dollar contests for innovation in learning, exploration, energy & environment, global development, and life sciences. - Director of INACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. - Partner at Learn Capital, an education VC firm that’s invested millions in companies like General Assembly, Edmodo, Minerva, AltSchool, Coursera, and Make School. -Runs one of the most popular education blogs: Getting Smart [lesson] Given his 360 view of education I wanted to get down to the basics. How to teach. How to engage students, how to motivate students, help them direct their own learning. We also cover the big picture on where innovation is happening in education, the biggest impact per dollar and how we as learners can benefit from all of this. It’s jam-packed. The episode is an index into many of Tom’s favorite education thought leaders, methods and students. That’s just the start!

Wir reden in Episode 42 darüber ob und wie – bzw. wie nicht – mit technophoben und technophilen Menschen über Bildung und Technologie gesprochen werden kann, über Dystopien und nudging, Forschung zu Open Education, AltSchool & 'data driven teaching' und equity in learning design. Drei Nominierungen für den Blödsinn der Woche sind Rekord.

Wir reden in Episode 42 darüber ob und wie – bzw. wie nicht – mit technophoben und technophilen Menschen über Bildung und Technologie gesprochen werden kann, über Dystopien und nudging, Forschung zu Open Education, AltSchool & 'data driven teaching' und equity in learning design. Drei Nominierungen für den Blödsinn der Woche sind Rekord.

A new school in San Francisco thinks it can massively accelerate the speed at which children can learn, using clever technology and smart algorithms to offer each child a bespoke education. AltSchool believes it can achieve results that were only previously possible by giving individual children their own personal tutor. The firm currently runs eight small ‘lab schools’ dotted around the country, all run from their California headquarters. But they have huge plans for expansion, and hope to sell their software to every school in the country. Sam Judah meets the pupils at one of the schools, and the CEO at AltSchool’s nerve centre, to find out what’s behind the company’s big idea. Presenter: Mai Noman Producer: Sam Judah Image: A pupil at AltSchool / Credit: BBC

Brian Singerman is a Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the world’s most prestigious and successful VC funds with prior investments in the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, SpaceX, Spotify and many more incredible companies. Prior to Founders Fund, Brian spent 4 years at Google where, among other projects, Brian founded iGoogle. Whilst at Google, Brian also started his career as an investor, founding his own angel fund, XGYC Fund. Brian also currently sits on the board of Affirm, Oscar, AltSchool and Emerald Therapeutics. Due to Brian's immense success he was named No 5 on Forbes Midas List for America's Top VCs.   In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Brian made the way from Google, to his own angel fund to being General Partner @ Founders Fund? 2.) How has Brian seen his investment mindset shift over the years from angel investing to his angel fund, XGYC to now being a partner at Founders Fund? 3.) Why does Brian believe that success in VC is purely about upside maximization? What does Brian think downside minimisation is unimportant? 4.) What does the investment decision-making process look like at Founders Fund? How does this change with the scaling cheque size? What are Brian's views on conviction driven vs unanimous team voting structures? 5.) Why is Brian a staunch generalist when it comes to investing? For Brian, why does he believe that being a generalist will deliver outsized returns over being a specialist? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Brian’s Fave Book: Snow Crash Brian’s Fave Blog: Dan Primack Brian’s Most Recent Investment: Affirm As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Brian on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Zoom is the No 1 Video and WebConferencing Service, providing one consistent enterprise experience that allows you to engage in an array of activities including online meetings, video webinars, collaboration-enabled conference rooms and business instant messaging. Plus, it is the easiest solution to use, buy and scale with the most straightforward pricing. Do not take our word for it, Zoom’s their partnership with Sequoia in their latest 100m funding round says it all. Zoom is a must for your business. ViewedIt is a free video-recording tool that makes it easy for organizations to embrace the power of video for personalized communications. ViewedIt enables sales professionals, executive leaders and customer support teams to easily record personalized videos and add them to their email conversations. Plus, with built-in tracking powered by the Vidyard platform, video creators will know who is watching what, and which video messages resonate with viewers. They’ll receive immediate playback notifications that will eliminate the wondering of whether the recipient received or watched their content. Find out more and download ViewedIt for free at vidyard.com/viewedit.

Max Ventilla, Founder and CEO of AltSchool sits down with W2O Group CMO, Aaron Strout, to discuss how he leverages technology to build businesses, his experience working at Google, and how he’s dedicated his career to improving education through Altschool.

Lee and Clint are back again for Episode 8, E-Holsters and Fanny Packs. The show starts with a discussion on keeping our children alive and healthy followed by a discussion on tech incubators in our respective communities (www.fourathens.com, www.makervillage.org). Apologies to Makervillage for referring to you as the other Makerspace in Rome. Then Lee and Clint pivot into a discussion on e-holsters (eholsters.com). Basically, they are holsters for your electronic devices that are way cooler than putting your devices in a bag. Almost a tech related fanny pack. This seems like an amazing device and we’d love to talk to the people involved behind this master plan. Getting into the news of the week, there is a discussion on the announcement of new Google for Education Innovator applications. Lee tells the story of how he found out he was accepted and the guys talk about the networking opportunities present through Google Trainer and Innovator status. In discussing some other stories, the guys bring up Richard Chang of THE Journal and his article on California’s top superintendent heading towards EdTech startup, AltSchool, (www.altschool.com). In another Richard Chang story, Clint and Lee break down Virtual School Growth and how it is expected to increase due to reaching the demand of students. Finally, the close of the show brings up a discussion of an article by Chris Liang-Vergara and Kerry Gallagher from Edsurge (www.edsurge.com) discussing 5 ways implementations of tech fail and how to get around them. Useful Links:http://www.fourathens.com/https://www.makervillage.org/www.eholster.comedutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/certification_innovator - Innovator ApplicationRichard Chang’s Articles from THE Journal, @Ricardo77thejournal.com/articles/2017/04/10/cas-top-superintendent-leaves-for-ed-tech-startup-altschool.aspxthejournal.com/articles/2017/04/03/virtual-schools-market-in-north-america-expected-to-grow-12.8-percent-by-2021.aspxAlaska Virtual Schools - @OrionHS5 Ways Implementations Fail From EdSurge by Chris Liang-Vergara and Kerry Gallagher@LiangVergara @KerryHawk02 ‏www.edsurge.com/news/2017-04-06-5-all-too-common-ways-edtech-implementations-fail

Lee and Clint are back again for Episode 8, E-Holsters and Fanny Packs. The show starts with a discussion on keeping our children alive and healthy followed by a discussion on tech incubators in our respective communities (www.fourathens.com, www.makervillage.org). Apologies to Makervillage for referring to you as the other Makerspace in Rome. Then Lee and Clint pivot into a discussion on e-holsters (eholsters.com). Basically, they are holsters for your electronic devices that are way cooler than putting your devices in a bag. Almost a tech related fanny pack. This seems like an amazing device and we’d love to talk to the people involved behind this master plan. Getting into the news of the week, there is a discussion on the announcement of new Google for Education Innovator applications. Lee tells the story of how he found out he was accepted and the guys talk about the networking opportunities present through Google Trainer and Innovator status. In discussing some other stories, the guys bring up Richard Chang of THE Journal and his article on California’s top superintendent heading towards EdTech startup, AltSchool, (www.altschool.com). In another Richard Chang story, Clint and Lee break down Virtual School Growth and how it is expected to increase due to reaching the demand of students. Finally, the close of the show brings up a discussion of an article by Chris Liang-Vergara and Kerry Gallagher from Edsurge (www.edsurge.com) discussing 5 ways implementations of tech fail and how to get around them. Useful Links:http://www.fourathens.com/https://www.makervillage.org/www.eholster.comedutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/certification_innovator - Innovator ApplicationRichard Chang’s Articles from THE Journal, @Ricardo77thejournal.com/articles/2017/04/10/cas-top-superintendent-leaves-for-ed-tech-startup-altschool.aspxthejournal.com/articles/2017/04/03/virtual-schools-market-in-north-america-expected-to-grow-12.8-percent-by-2021.aspxAlaska Virtual Schools - @OrionHS5 Ways Implementations Fail From EdSurge by Chris Liang-Vergara and Kerry Gallagher@LiangVergara @KerryHawk02 ‏www.edsurge.com/news/2017-04-06-5-all-too-common-ways-edtech-implementations-fail

Our education system was built for the industrial era. AltSchool’s platform rethinks learning from the classroom up. We spoke with Max Ventilla, Founder and CEO of AltSchool, on how they are examining the core operating system of education and using more than just technology to improve it.

Kevin Lee is dedicated to teaching people the fundamentals of product management through Product Manager HQ and also currently works in Venture Capital at FundersClub. Before becoming a Founder, he previously worked in Product at AltSchool and as a Senior Product Manager at Kabam, where he worked on products through all lifecycles in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Beijing to help grow one of the company’s products to become the third largest revenue generating products in the company portfolio. Key Points: Align your career with your personality type. Especially, when you find yourself questioning the role you’re currently doing, try to take a step back. Figure out your personality type and align it with your career. There are many ways to break into any industry. Talk to the influencers. Get to know more about this industry. Network. Make yourself the product. Figure out your users’ needs and make sure you bring value to the table. Once you’ve figured out a pain point within your industry, write about it and start blogging. Then make sure you create a community so people can still talk to each other right after reading your content. SHOW NOTES (FOCUS ON THE STEPPING STONES): [1:11] Kevin’s background [1:52] His passion for education [3:04] Kevin shares the story of “the river of drowning babies” [6:14] Kevin’s big turning point [7:07] Where to start looking for resources about Product Management: Quora (a Q&A website answered by some high profile people) as his primary source Books: Cracking the PM Interview, The Mom Test [10:22] Getting his first job as a product manager: Kevin landed a PM job at Kabam, a mobile gaming company. [11:19] Strategies to break into an industry you’re interested in [12:45] What is Product Management? [13:28] How product management in gaming differs from that of other industries [17:39] Dealing with frustrations as a PM [18:52] Why Product Management HQ was created [20:21] Building the Community [27:37] Do your Due Diligence – How to position yourself for an associate product management role at a startup [32:12] Transitioning into a PM role within your organization [33:26] The Lightning Round 1. Imagine if you were dropped in a new city, you had to start all over again and you only had $100, what would you do and what would be the first steps you would take to get yourself back to the point you’re at? Kevin: Go to coworking spaces, hang out, use that $100 to buy a seat, and milk that for a month. 2. When you were dealing with any frustrations on your first projects, did you listen to any music or videos or something that inspired you to overcome whatever situations? Kevin takes inspiration from his parents who were immigrants from Taiwan and coming to America with literally nothing and couldn’t speak English but worked so hard to provide for their family; so if they have done it, so could he. Never forget your roots. Never forget your family. 3. What is one piece of advice you would want someone to know who’s about to start on this journey? Figure out your personality type (Take tests like the Myers-Briggs test or the Enneagram test) and be able to align that with your career. 4. What is one thing that you fundamentally believed in before that you changed your mind on after this process? Kevin: Make yourself a product. These days, having that piece of paper from the university is no longer as relevant as what it used to be. It’s really important that you start to brand yourself. Make yourself a product because that’s what’s going to last forever. 5. What are you planning on doing next? What are you trying to do for the future? It’s in Kevin’s blood to want to be helping entrepreneurs, helping founders, helping people. So he is going to try his hand at venture capital and work with great founders and support them in any way possible.

AltSchool isn't just for AltSchool anymore. Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these as mini educational labs where it's working to create a new kind of personalized educational for the 21st century, and now, the company is sharing its philosophies with the outside world.

"We have an opportunity to do what we want - choose our path instead of the teachers making a choice for us."  Meet Piper, a blond, freckled 9-year-old from Brooklyn who talks like a seasoned grownup. She used to go to public school with Manoush's son but now - with the help of financial aid - she's enrolled in a new experimental school in her neighborhood: AltSchool. AltSchool is not your typical private school. Its founder is Max Ventilla, a former Google executive with a vision to reform education. Ventilla's company, with over 100 million dollars from investors like Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Andreesen, uses tech to teach and track students' social and academic skills. Ventilla's idea is that over time, that data can build a more thorough picture of each student and determine how she is taught. This method of "personalized learning" (think Montessori 2.0) is being prototyped in eight "micro-schools" in Palo Alto, San Francisco, and New York City, with the goal of applying it to schools everywhere. Manoush went to visit one in Brooklyn. NPR's education reporter Anya Kamanetz is skeptical of Ventilla's goal to optimize education for the masses, and she's concerned about Silicon Valley's foray into education. "They have a giant promise, which is that the right software system, the right operating system, is going to transform teaching and learning... and, what it ultimately means is that they have shareholders to satisfy." This week: can a tech startup engineer a better system for learning everywhere and make money doing it? And would these two tech reporters/mothers send their own kids there? There are a lot of buzzwords in education technology — including the phrase "education technology!" We've rounded up some of the most common in this list. Consult it as you and your kids face more tech in the classroom.  For more Note to Self, subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, I Heart Radio, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or anywhere else using our RSS feed.  Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.   

In this episode, Ricky talks about AltSchool, Ed Tech difficulties reaching the poor, Not so Standardized Tests, and Ed Tech conferences.

In this episode of Startup School Radio, Y Combinator partner Aaron Harris interviews Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool.

On this week's episode, we discuss the resignation of a South Carolina teacher whose private photos were stolen and shared on the Internet as well as the recent New Yorker article about AltSchool, a private school with a tech start up feel. Plus, Kelley celebrates diversity week at her school.

Ruben Harris began his professional career in Atlanta working in Finance, and now works in Partnerships and Leads at Honor, an Andreesen Horowitz funded Bay Area startup modernizing non-medical home care for seniors. He also serves as an advisor to AltSchool, which is working to reimagine education. He’s an accomplished cellist, playing for more than 22 years. We talk a bit about his journey, his Young and Cultured project, and an article he wrote titled Breaking into Startups.

This week, Dave interviews Craig Shapiro, the founder and managing partner of Collaborative Fund. In this episode, Craig talks about his views on the future of consumption, how to court and land awesome LPs like Pharrell, and how your company's values can be used as a weapon. Collaborative Fund is centered on two macro themes: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Their portfolio companies include AngelList, Codecademy, Earnest, Grand St, HelloSign, Kickstarter, Lyft, Maker Studios, Reddit and TaskRabbit. In addition to those, Dave and Craig discuss a few other portfolio companies in depth on today's episode, including Hampton Creek, Walker & Co and AltSchool.

Kanyi Maqubela is a Partner at Collaborative Fund, who have made investments in AngelList, CodeAcademy, AltSchool, Reddit, Task Rabbit just to name a few. On a more personal note, and a little background on Kanyi, he is originally from Johannesburg South Africa, and was a founding employee at Doostang, a venture-backed peer-to-peer career marketplace, he attended Stanford University and as Kanyi states his most meaningful and difficult work done so far is his work on the Obama Campaign in 2008. You can checkout Kanyi's blog here! I would like to thank Mattermark for providing all the data and analysis for this interview and you can check them out here! CLICK TO PLAY In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Kanyi made the move into VC and tech from South Africa? 2.) Was the decision to leave Stanford tough? Why would Kanyi advise others to say in school? What was so tough about the startup experience for Kanyi? 3.) What is the investing thesis at Collaborative Fund? What stage do you prefer? Average cheque size? Sector preference? Does specializing in themes result in higher returns? 4.) How is it being such a young partner in the industry? What are the challenges Kanyi has face? Does Kanyi think his age acts as a disadvantage when it comes to attracting older founders? 5.) What are Kanyi's personal marketing strategies that he uses to establish his own personal brand? What platforms are most effective? 6.) How effective does Kanyi find demo days and hackathons as source of deal flow? Are there any tips Kanyi would suggest to maximise their utility? What is Collaborative's most effective form of deal sourcing today? Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Kanyi's Fave Book: The Brothers Karamazov Kanyi's Most Recent Investment: CircleUp As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Kanyi on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!  

Do high-income communities, which enjoy the resources and flexibility to experiment with bold ideas, offer the most ideal test-beds for innovation? Or do the most viable—and practical—ideas come from low-income neighborhoods where the challenges and needs are visible everyday? EdSurge welcome two entrepreneurs to the debate: Alejandro Gac-Artigas, the founder of Philadelphia-based Springboard Collaborative, which seeks to close the achievement gap and end summer reading loss by engaging parents and training teachers, and Max Ventilla, the mastermind and founder of AltSchool, a Bay Area-based network of “microschools” that currently charges more than $20,000 a year in tuition.

This week on the podcast, Mary Jo Madda and Michael Winters tackle two big questions from this weeks' news. First, what exactly is happening over at AltSchools? It raised $100M this week, but where does all of that money go? We discuss AltSchool's model and hear from the school's founder about its future. Second, Google Classroom celebrates its first birthday this week. But is the wide use of Google Classroom a good thing? Sure it's a high quality - and free - tool, but could that actually be a risk for teachers using it?

Jenna and Max Ventilla talk about how AltSchool is using data to reimagine personalized education.

When you’re tackling a hard problem, the solution rarely comes from what you do initially. Rather, it emerges from what you do continuously–provided you set up systems to learn as you go. Max Ventilla, founder at AltSchool, explains how his organization is staying very close to its customers as its key mechanism for scaling up a large network of independent schools.