Schoolish

Mike and Morgan Williams, both staff of the Reinvention Lab at Teach for America, sit down to talk about what the Reinvention Lab is doing to serve Social Entrepreneurs who are working to build the #futureoflearning.

Point blank we have a teacher problem in schools and that is that we can't keep them! Why? Let's talk about it! 

Carey Anne Nadeau is an MIT-trained entrepreneur, focused on modernizing the measurement of risk. Formerly a Researcher at the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute, Carey Anne went on to found Loop, an auto insurance MGA that uses AI to provide a fair price to all.

Find more about Loop HERE.

Brett Roer serves as Outlier.org’s High School Strategic Partnerships Lead after 16 years of empowering high school students in Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx.

Throughout his career, Brett’s mission has been to equip high school students with the foundational academic skills needed to graduate from their best-fit colleges and feel both academically and financially supported along the way.

In his most recent experience as a principal in The Bronx, Brett accelerated the graduation rate from one of the lowest in New York City to the second highest in the district in two years while dramatically increasing the college and career readiness rate.

Brett has inspired students and families as a high school principal, college and career advisor, and teacher, always fiercely passionate in providing students access to high-quality education. Brett is a dedicated educational leader, ensuring students can afford a college education, including full scholarships to their dream colleges and universities.

Daniela Bio: Daniela has worked in the ed-tech space for the last 6 years. Her focus has been on higher education partnerships and supporting innovation in the higher education space. Daniela worked as the Director of External Relations at Riipen, an education technology company focused on ending graduate underemployment by providing students with work-integrated learning in the classroom. She recently joined Outlier.org as the strategic partnerships lead and is working to build their transfer network. Daniela is a passionate advocate for access and believes that education is a powerful tool for social mobility and equity.

Sophie is an investor at GSV Ventures, a multi-stage venture capital firm that specializes in education and workforce technology. She focuses on sourcing and conducting diligence on investment opportunities, covering early childhood and K12 EdTech companies across the US, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Prior to joining GSV Ventures as an investor, Sophie spent four years at Goldman Sachs building a team that works alongside every division of the firm to source and syndicate all of Goldman’s direct, private-market investment opportunities. She graduated from Dartmouth College Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Economics and Psychology.

Sophie has a passion for behavioral economics and loves thinking about how to weave the decision sciences into new businesses to help them gain traction. In her free time, she enjoys running, spinning, hiking, and exploring new places in NYC. Sophie grew up in Newton, Massachusetts with two brothers, a sister, and a Goldendoodle named Roxy.

Jermain stopped by the podcast and was interviewed last week! Check out the full interview on episode 39! This is Jermain's school story! 

Bio: Jermain Allen is an experienced instructional designer with the unique ability to break down complex technical concepts into digestible knowledge for audiences without technical backgrounds. Jermain leveraged his "technical translator" abilities to educate distributors, salespeople, internal staff, and the public about the technologies powering the most popular consumer products. As a Senior Product Trainer for the two largest consumer electronics manufacturers in the world, Jermain would go on to develop key educational concepts and practices that are still used in the industry today.

In 2014, Jermain started a professional development company, RTR Digital, expanding his audience beyond corporate employees to include individuals in need of technical training in underserved communities. Leveraging all of the technical skills he's acquired throughout his career, Jermain now develops and distributes his own technical training content to people across the globe. Today, Jermain still offers workforce development services through his company, RTR Digital, but also offers individualized training through their partner website, RTR Learning.

Jermain Allen is an experienced instructional designer with the unique ability to break down complex technical concepts into digestible knowledge for audiences without technical backgrounds. Jermain leveraged his "technical translator" abilities to educate distributors, salespeople, internal staff, and the public about the technologies powering the most popular consumer products. As a Senior Product Trainer for the two largest consumer electronics manufacturers in the world, Jermain would go on to develop key educational concepts and practices that are still used in the industry today.

In 2014, Jermain started a professional development company, RTR Digital, expanding his audience beyond corporate employees to include individuals in need of technical training in underserved communities. Leveraging all of the technical skills he's acquired throughout his career, Jermain now develops and distributes his own technical training content to people across the globe. Today, Jermain still offers workforce development services through his company, RTR Digital, but also offers individualized training through their partner website, RTR Learning.

I went Live with Tamar Huggins and Timothy Jones from Tech Spark Canada! Check it out.