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I'm building Texas Sports Academy. We’re launching 1,200 middle schools for D1 bound athletes by 2026. DM me if you want to help. @alphaschoolatx
Austin, TX
Joined January 2024
The real secret of how Alpha drives amazing educational outcomes is that we've turned motivating kids into a science. *Nothing* motivates a kid more than crushing his friends in a video game. Playcademy turns K-12 education into a multiplayer video game, getting kids hopelessly
Hello, world! Playcademy believes that school should be a game. Not just because it should be fun. But because it's the best way to learn. Watch as we 10x motivation and deliver the best learning outcomes in the world for students K-6, one game at a time!
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Ran the NYC marathon today! Was there to guide a disabled athlete (autistic) — he did great! This meant setting the pace, grabbing water & gels, and non-stop cheers. Awesome day, one of the best sports events out there 🙌🏼
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The Massachusetts House just voted 155-0 to overhaul how kids learn to read, directly defying the state's largest teachers' union. Here’s the breakdown 👇 1. Despite historically leading the nation, Massachusetts is facing a literacy crisis. The latest MCAS results show that
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Two hours of hyper-efficient learning in the morning, then elite training with the best coaches in Texas. This is how you get kids to love coming to school.
Texas Sports Academy tuition starts at $15k, meaning about $400/month in parent payments with the Texas ESA program. Their goal is to build 1,000 throughout Texas. We are working to bring the Alpha model to everyone.
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We just hosted 6 meetups in 6 days for our future Texas Sports Academies. We met with families from all walks of life, and what parents found most powerful wasn’t the athletics. Here's what it was👇
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I have yet to find a single thing that GPT-5 performs better at than Claude/Gemini. That's the main issue with Atlas. Useful for agent mode but for literally everything else I'd rather copy the text and throw it in Gemini/Claude.
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Shohei Ohtani could go down as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. On Friday he had the greatest single-game performance in baseball history with 3 home runs *and* 10 strikeouts. One of the most interesting things about Ohtani is his youth upbringing, and how much
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The main reason we're able to ship so much internal software at Alpha School / Texas Sports Academy is because all our engineers are fully AI-enabled. We have an unlimited company-wide budget for AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, v0, whatever) so we're constantly shipping
99% of Edtech software does nothing to ensure students aren't cheating, guessing or rushing. This is a *huge* oversight that has made the majority of edtech apps ineffective for your average student. (cheating is rampant at schools + universities) For our Texas Sports Academy
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99% of Edtech software does nothing to ensure students aren't cheating, guessing or rushing. This is a *huge* oversight that has made the majority of edtech apps ineffective for your average student. (cheating is rampant at schools + universities) For our Texas Sports Academy
After running 5 schools, I've realized that the feature in edtech software that *drastically* increases learning outcomes is not things like better spaced repetition algorithms or improved content scaffolding. Learning science principles are very important but what truly
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Whenever we tell a parent about Texas Sports Academy, the first question we get is "okay, so what teams will the school play?" This is a totally fair question, but it also shows the biggest issue in youth sports right now - parents are way too focused on competition and not
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One of the key differentiators of Texas Sports Academy is that we own the entire software stack our schools are built on. We've developed - all the software coaches use to set up schools - student/coach academic dashboards - student activity tracking system - learning apps for
Most schools run on software built 20 years ago. Texas Sports Academy is rebuilding the school stack — AI-first, fully customized for how our coaches actually run schools. Legacy software like: - PowerSchool (applications) → we're rebuilding this now (video). - ParentSquare
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After running 5 schools, I've realized that the feature in edtech software that *drastically* increases learning outcomes is not things like better spaced repetition algorithms or improved content scaffolding. Learning science principles are very important but what truly
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One of the challenges of building 1200 schools is that every single touchpoint a coach has with our platform needs to be designed for scale. All stages of the funnel need to be tracked for drop-off and any friction/pain point needs to be eliminated. Using Agents + LLMs has been
Texas Sports Academy is launching 1,200 schools in the coming years. So we’re making it effortless for elite coaches to start schools and recruit. Coaches can now create their School Website in 1-Click 🔥 What used to take weeks now takes 90 seconds. Here’s how Nuclear Prep
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One of the "secrets" behind Texas Sports Academy is how we gamify the academic experience with "XP". 1 XP equals 1 minute of focused work. Students need 120 XP per day to learn at twice the speed of the average student. Texas Sports Academy coaches are responsible for
At Alpha School I was tasked with improving the UI of the below table. (I've changed the students' names, obviously.) Let's talk about design. What's wrong with this UI, and how can it be improved? 1/
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We'll be launching hundreds of Sports Academies across Texas over the next year. Feel free to DM me if you're interested in starting one or enrolling your child in one. Here's a video from one of our Houston locations.
@jonathanpassey If you're anywhere in Texas, we hope to have thousands of seats at Sports Academy middle school available in 2026 for voucher-eligible families at $400/month parent pay.
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While a student is using one of our learning apps, we're constantly sending back detailed events to our backend with information on things like - number of questions the student got right/wrong - time spent per question/section - number of attempts of a quiz/test and more. We
People always talking about real engineers fixing vibe coded slop. The other day i vibe fixed a human coded app - 50x faster webhook responses (4ms vs 259ms) - 100x faster end-to-end event processing (64ms vs 90+ seconds) - 2000x higher throughput (154,496 events delivered vs
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Your first 18 years form the foundation for your life. You start building skills that compound, your core beliefs form, critical neural pathways get locked in, etc. It's crazy that our society wastes so much of this time.
the fact that kids attending AI schools rank in the top 1% of standardized tests with only 2h of learning per day is proof that traditional schools were never about learning, just compliance.
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The *most* exciting feature we'll be rolling out at Texas Sports Academy is an AI coach that can watch over a student and guide them to perform better (both academically and athletically). Here's a quick overview of how it'll work... 1. Record Everything We're obsessive about
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