Ideas, principles, and stories from the people building Praxis.https://www.praxisheroes.com/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/children-learn-with-their-bodies-first/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/measuring-progress-at-playfit/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/measuring-progress-at-playfit/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.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/first-ninety-days-of-trust/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/first-ninety-days-of-trust/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.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/three-questions-before-you-automate/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/three-questions-before-you-automate/Three questions I ask before turning repetitive work into a system, drawn from three times automation ended up creating more work instead of less.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/what-operators-want-from-software/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/what-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.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/teaching-less-learning-more/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/teaching-less-learning-more/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.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/why-i-joined-a-ten-person-company/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/why-i-joined-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.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/diagnostics-before-teaching/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/diagnostics-before-teaching/How two students with identical level test scores ended up with different prescriptions, and how diagnostic data reshaped our curriculum.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/hiring-what-we-actually-ask/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/hiring-what-we-actually-ask/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.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/facilities-shape-learning/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/facilities-shape-learning/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.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/academy-teacher-misconceptions/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/academy-teacher-misconceptions/A teacher at Epic Prep pushes back on three misconceptions about academy teaching, drawing on scenes from class observations and curriculum meetings.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/coaching-is-designing-repetition/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/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.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/praxis-people-eunice/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/praxis-people-eunice/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.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/how-kids-fail-well-in-gym/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/how-kids-fail-well-in-gym/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.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/how-we-run-weekly-reviews/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/how-we-run-weekly-reviews/The trial and error behind a 30-minute weekly review that puts attendance numbers, homework data, and voices from the floor on one table.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/consulting-should-be-explainable/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/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.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/debate-in-curriculum-meetings/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/debate-in-curriculum-meetings/A record of executing, at full strength, a curriculum decision I had argued against, and watching the assumptions our team built together get rewritten.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/counter-desk-field-notes/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/counter-desk-field-notes/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.Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/why-one-company-runs-four-brands/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/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.Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/why-we-built-rubric/https://www.praxisheroes.com/en/blog/why-we-built-rubric/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.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT