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I was unsatisfied with my kids’ school so I started my own🍎
AI driven/Life Skills Focused📱
Follow along and let’s start the education revolution😀

What happened to home ec class? Shop class? Many s What happened to home ec class? Shop class? Many schools have unfortunately become so wholly focused on hitting testing goals and complying with bureaucratic initiatives that life skills fell by the wayside. 

Some of the life skills we teach at our schools are cooking, budgeting, changing a tire, investing, putting together furniture, running a 5k, growth mindset, grit, speaking to adults, ordering at a restaurant, arranging a play date, researching, swimming, surfing, sailing, starting a fire, pitching a tent, and so so much more. 

Life skills are baked into our daily curriculum because we believe in building kids who have agency- kids who are actually prepared for life! 

The good news is, you can teach your kids life skills at home. Check out the videos on my account for some inspiration if you need it! Many of our life skills workshops can be recreated at home, on weekends or even school nights! ☺️
🏄‍♂️🌊Surfing workshop on a Wednesday afternoon for 🏄‍♂️🌊Surfing workshop on a Wednesday afternoon for our 2nd-3rd graders!

And there WILL be a test. 💪😁 

The life skills the students are learning include “doing hard things” and “grit.” 

Our Guides are out in the water with them and another Guide is behind the camera tracking every wave attempted and if they stay on the board for more than 3 seconds. They are graded on their overall % of waves caught and if they are improving week to week. 
🏄‍♂️🌊 

Thanks to 
@revelsurfparks for being great hosts!
With technology this is now possible for every stu With technology this is now possible for every student and will be the norm soon. 

We see a similar progression with the thousands of new families that enter our system. They start off skeptical and think “my kid isn’t doing enough they can’t be learning.” When mid-year testing comes back they begin to see it and are pleasantly surprised, and when end of year testing comes back they are overjoyed. 

But the best part is when students spend only 2 hours a day on traditional academics it leaves the rest of the day for life skills, projects, hands-on learning, collaboration, socialization, field trips-anything is possible! 
#unschooling #futureofeducation #educationreform
We have a very high bar. If a tool doesn’t produce We have a very high bar. If a tool doesn’t produce top-tier results, we cut it. As a result, our students rank in the top 1% for academics in the country.

We design many of our own adaptive learning apps with a specialized learning science team, but there are also some publicly available AI tools that we also use across our 20+ school locations. 

These tools have been battle-tested by our own students, and I’ve shared them all in my last podcast episode. 

Comment TOOLS and I’ll send the episode your way! 🩵
We don’t have academic test requirements for admis We don’t have academic test requirements for admission (we are frequently accused of only admitting the academically advanced).

We do test all of our students upon entry, but it’s simply to have a starting point to measure and track growth. We test to identify knowledge gaps and mastery levels.

Many students come to us slightly behind, but they soon catch up with our AI-powered adaptive app learning. It acts as an individualized learning plan for every student. Couple that with caring, motivating, and amazing Guides (teachers) and you have the blueprint for success. 

We have a student dashboard that updates in realtime, every day, every minute. Parents can access it, students can access it, and of course Guides can, too. It’s super valuable to ensure students are on track and identify any problems.
Today’s kids are growing up with screens. But too Today’s kids are growing up with screens. But too often, the conversation around them remains binary and reductionist.

The real question isn’t screen or no screen, it’s whether technology is being used to numb, or to equip.

This post was written in part by @austinscholar, a former Alpha student and current @stanford student.

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