Who We Are New Classrooms was born from the belief that today’s model for delivering education—one teacher and 28 or so students in a classroom—does not sufficiently account for each student’s needs and assumes that each student arrives on the first day of school with the same academic foundation and way of learning. For a teacher, this presents the nearly impossible challenge of teaching grade-level curriculum while also meeting the needs of each student.

To address this challenge, we design new instructional models that reimagine the role of educators, the use of time, the configuration of physical space, and the use of data and technology to better meet the needs of each student. We then collaborate with educators to support the implementation of these models within traditional public, charter, and independent schools.

Our Values

1. A Student-Centered Orientation. We are committed to innovations that help students learn in ways that are personalized, engaging, meaningful, and measurably effective.
2. Support for Great Teaching. We are committed to innovations that help teachers spend more time and energy focusing on the quality of their instruction.
3. Bold Solutions for Schools. We are committed to innovations that are more than simply tools for educators to use. Rather, we aspire to develop new models for delivering instruction that are both bold in their design and flexible in their adaptability to specific school contexts.
4. A Culture that Fosters Innovation and Learning. We are committed to organizational culture that values imaginative thinking, superior execution, and open and purposeful collaboration.
5. Responsible Growth. We believe in learning by doing. We incubate early-stage innovations in summer- and after-school environments where we can rapidly iterate, troubleshoot, and closely measure impact. With success, these innovations migrate to in-school programs where they are implemented in highly supportive, pioneering environments. Widespread scale comes after these innovations have been validated.