Heather Clayton Staker
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Guiding the world to greater learning. Quiz: https://t.co/EvZHor3WPl
Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
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My faith in adaptive software + human facilitators to educate marginalized or underchallenged youth grew significantly this month. Education lifts kids out of poverty. We innovate or they perish. Lecture on Learning Ep 6: https://t.co/D9Xaq0X0fu
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Keep your eyes on this #disruptiveinnovation that's on path to reshape classrooms.
My kids go to this school. All the academics are done by AI apps + motivational coaches, rest of the day is “life skills.” Checked their data this morning. They’re learning way faster than they were in public school. Six-year-old pacing to end the year two grades ahead.
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Responsive caregiving fosters emotional and cognitive growth. Secure attachment strengthens neural pathways, improving problem-solving skills and emotional regulation.
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Babies who hear 30 million more words by age 3 develop stronger vocabularies and perform better in school, highlighting the importance of verbal interaction.
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Maternal stress can impact fetal brain development. Chronic stress elevates cortisol levels, which can shrink the hippocampus—essential for memory and learning—and lower IQ scores in children by age 5.
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Proper nutrition during pregnancy is critical for brain development. Omega-3 fatty acids support neuron growth, and folic acid reduces neural tube defects by up to 70%. These nutrients lay the foundation for cognitive health.
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A baby’s brain grows faster than at any other time in life. By age 3, it’s 80% of adult size, forming 1 million neural connections per second. Early care, nutrition, and experiences shape intelligence and potential for life.
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Every child - aside from some with severe disabilities - is capable of learning to read proficiently by the 4th grade. There is *not one state* in this country where a majority of students in 4th grade are reading proficiently based on @NAEP_NCES. ⚠️THIS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS!⚠️
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Where would you prefer to spend 3-4 days this summer to try a classroom that mixes AI apps for core skills with projects, deeper learning, games, friends, hands-on application, warm/demanding guides, and fun?
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Where should we pop up a lab school this summer to demo how to be a Guide in AI-based Flex blended learning classrooms? Poll below…
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There you have it. The high performing students don’t need support from teachers. This attitude is, frankly, immoral.
@JamesAFurey The high performing ones don’t need you. Point them in a direction and they figure it out. It’s the ones on the back half of the bell curve that suffer the most.
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Success metric I like for high schools: Can graduates earn more than minimum wage because they have a useful skill? From @tvanderark: “Designing intentional pathways [in schools] requires awareness of workforce needs.”
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Uplift Education's new health pathways program offers students career-ready skills in healthcare via work-based learning and dual enrollment.
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School choice gives students the option to be 1st in line for the inevitable #disruption: schools that use smart apps for the core and then free the rest of the day at school for art, projects, music, sports, CTE, human flourishing. @RobertEnlow
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In 1868, the federal department of education was basically dismantled because of concerns that it would exert too much control over education, which is primarily a state and local function. Soun
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Forget what you think you know about brilliant young entrepreneurs. Most people who start successful companies are in middle age or beyond. (Guide School Inc will become a case in point, god willing!)
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Forget what you think you know about brilliant young entrepreneurs. Most people who start successful companies are in middle age or beyond.
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ELON: AI EDUCATION WILL BE LIKE HAVING EINSTEIN AS A TEACHER FOR EACH CHILD “I think the parents will still be responsible for values and morals. [But] I do think AI will dramatically affect education, because the AI is an extremely knowledgeable teacher. It will be very
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