Advisory & ventures

On the build side of educator AI.

For 15+ years I built the systems schools run on, from the inside. Now I work the other side of the table too: advising the teams building AI for educators, and convening the people putting it to use in real classrooms. Same instinct, new seat. I know what lands in a school and what dies on contact.

Advisor & Board Member

Ople is a video-based PD platform for K-12 educators, the place a teacher goes to watch good practice and grow from it. I sit on the board and advise the go-to-market into schools, bringing the buyer's voice (what actually gets a tool through a school door) to a team that has the product instinct.

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QWZRD

Educational Advisor

QWZRD is an AI tutoring platform built for productive struggle, the learning that comes from working through a hard problem instead of around it. I advise on release enablement and teacher onboarding, the unglamorous work of getting an AI product into real K-12 classrooms so it survives first contact with a Tuesday.

Post-proof-of-concept · entering schools

EducAItion Lab

Founder & Lead

A cross-network working group I founded for K-12 educators putting AI to real use in their actual jobs. Members come from KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Brooklyn Prospect, and Google, and we trade what's working, fast, while the field's official wisdom is still catching up.

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The best tools for educators get built with educators in the room while the thing is being made, not surveyed after it ships. That's the seat I take.

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Building something for educators?

If you're building an edtech or AI-in-education product and you want someone who knows schools from the inside, the read you only get from having run the building, let's talk.

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