Diagnose Before You Teach
How two students with identical level test scores ended up with different prescriptions, and how diagnostic data reshaped our curriculum.
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Children Learn With Their Bodies First
A child stops. Looks at the mat. Comes back. Notes on the order of learning a kids' sports coach watches unfold every day.
Stopwatch On, Leaderboard Off
Why we time laps but never post rankings, how the records reach kids and parents, and the trial and error the numbers put us through.
The First 90 Days: How Trust Gets Built
Lessons from watching new colleagues' first 90 days on campus: trust is built not by goal documents but by small, everyday moments on the team.
Three Questions I Ask Before Turning Repetitive Work Into a System
Three questions I ask before turning repetitive work into a system, drawn from three times automation ended up creating more work instead of less.
The One Thing Operators Want From Software
Only tools that survive the ten busiest minutes of dismissal rush make it. A campus operator on the one thing she wants from software, and how she gives feedback.
Rereading the Underlined Sentence
I swallowed the hint and waited thirty seconds, and the student turned back to an underlined sentence. Three checks for lessons that leave room for learning.
Why a Data Analyst Chose a Ten-Person Company
The math behind a data analyst's choice of a ten-person education company over a 1,400-person firm, and how two pre-move worries actually turned out.
Diagnose Before You Teach
How two students with identical level test scores ended up with different prescriptions, and how diagnostic data reshaped our curriculum.
What We Actually Ask in Interviews
The three interview questions we actually ask, the principles behind our three-hour take-home task, and the patterns in why we turn candidates down.
Good Spaces Go Unnoticed
What I learned fixing dismissal routes and lighting with a tape measure. Notes on when space changes learning, and why good spaces disappear from view.
Three Misconceptions About Academy Teachers
A teacher at Epic Prep pushes back on three misconceptions about academy teaching, drawing on scenes from class observations and curriculum meetings.
Coaching Is Designing Repetition
A coaching story about tearing down the program of a member whose numbers had been stuck for eight weeks, and learning to make the same movements repeat differently.
Praxis People Episode 1: Eunice at the Counseling Desk
Praxis People episode 1. Eunice at the Epic Prep counseling desk answers parents' real questions and reflects on a counselor's work in a self Q&A.
We Decided to Put Failure in the Set
A child who only ever succeeds stops trying. Notes on mixing failure into the set, and on what a coach says to a fallen child and what a coach never says.
The 30-Minute Weekly Review: Numbers and Voices at One Table
The trial and error behind a 30-minute weekly review that puts attendance numbers, homework data, and voices from the floor on one table.
Consulting Should Be Explainable
Why is admissions consulting so opaque? We count the cost of Epic Prep's principle that every piece of advice must come with evidence.
What Started After My Proposal Lost
A record of executing, at full strength, a curriculum decision I had argued against, and watching the assumptions our team built together get rewritten.
The View from the Desk
Ten minutes of dismissal, seen from the front desk: how kids change, what parents really ask, and how one line in a notebook changed a class.
Why One Company Runs Four Brands
The honest math behind running a language academy, a gym, and a software team as one company, and the bill that structure keeps sending us.
Rubric Was Built Twice
A record of building Rubric twice: we failed trying to move assessment out of gut feeling into a tool, then changed course toward supporting teachers' judgment.
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