Take a minute and see what the folks over at Atlas MD are doing to help teachers break out of their chains as well. It’s pretty amazing.
Microschools are modern twists on the quaint, one-room schoolhouse model, where small, multi-age groups of students learn together in more intimate educational settings, such as private homes, with individualized attention from adult educators and facilitators. Interest in microschools accelerated over the past year, as school shutdowns led parents to consider home-based “pandemic pods” to help their children learn in small, safe groups. Some teachers were recruited to lead pods, while others set out to create their own learning communities and microschool models. These entrepreneurial educators are finding that they have many resources available to them to launch their own innovative schools.
Awesome. This could be a game-changer for them. I have always compared teachers to doctors because of how the idiots in charge try to “measure us” and therefore burn us out. Now some people are doing something about this. And those people are the Umbehrs.
The a.school software is free to use and helps educators to initiate and manage their microschool’s website, enrollment, communication and reporting systems, while enabling them to customize their own curriculum and policies. The edtech startup takes a percentage of the credit card billing fees.
Umbehr founded a.school earlier this year with his brother Dr. Josh Umbehr, a family physician in Kansas, who realized the parallels between healthcare and education. High levels of burnout, more paperwork and less time for personalized attention plague both doctors and teachers.
Go on and read the rest here. They also mention Direct Primary Care, which is always good for our cause.
KUDOS to Josh, Kirk, and every other Umbehr helping out in this project. You have done so much for DPC so I am sure you will help teachers as well.