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Your Review: Alpha School
They reminded me of the staff you run into when visiting Disney World.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Someone who believes that having tour guides be like Disney is a good thing when talking about education decisions is living in a different world than me.
and a great deal of anxiety every time I left the water running while I was brushing my teeth
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
For a guy interested in optimizing his kids’ education in ways that are highly experimental and presumably involved little decision-making power from the kids, he’s not interested in examinations of his own behavior when they become the target of new evidence.
In November 2020 we had a meeting with the head of our kids’ original elite private school for the gifted.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Goes to show self-selection. Rich, private-school population
practice every kids is working on stuff at the edge of their ability, rather than the median of a group
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
I could see where this might have been beneficial to me.
By having access to Alpha kids post-graduation in the high school, Locke could send feedback back to the elementary school.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
A virtuous feedback loop
- David Disruptor: Tech employee who has moved from the Bay area to Austin. He was nonconformist to even get into tech, and even more non-conformist to leave California
- Arjun Academic: First generation immigrant family from India. Likely also works in tech, or maybe healthcare, or runs a small business. They want their kids to excel academically and
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Not convincing that this is not self-selection.
She invited a small number of neighbourhood kids (including her two) into a makeshift microschool that ran two intense, teacher‐led academic “sprints” each morning, then “life‐skills” projects after lunch.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Education as cottage industry, which I can appreciate as soon of a Montessori teacher
You can make the morning ultra-personalized, but if the goal of the afternoon is socialization that you are missing in the morning, you need to have some sort of alignment on how to spend that afternoon.
That challenge led to Alpha’s 2024 expansion into specialty schools.
That challenge led to Alpha’s 2024 expansion into specialty schools.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Splitting kids by sports, gifted academics, and video game design? Weird that skilled labor is not included here. But in light of my late realization that trade school might have been best thing post-high-school for me…could be a good idea
If a pattern of stumbles appears the system will automatically task the student to book a “coaching call” with a remote teacher (most of these teachers seem to be based in Brazil).
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Why are we outsourcing to Brazil and how are these coaches found? Rigor of assessment for tutoring.