{"id":972,"date":"2016-06-15T04:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T04:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limelight.dev\/?p=145"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:13:09","slug":"altschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/featured\/altschool\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s New-Age AltSchool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/altschool\/\">as mini educational labs<\/a> where it\u2019s working to create a new kind of personalized educational for the 21st century, and now, the company is sharing its philosophies with the outside world. This morning, it announced that three outside schools will use its platform: Berthold Academy in Reston, Virginia; The Greene School in West Palm Beach, Florida; and Temple Beth Sholom Day School in Miami Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The eventual goal, says chief operating officer Cody Johnson, is to apply the company\u2019s formula to a network of private, public, and charter schools across the US. Today, AltSchool is taking a step toward achieving that aim.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"lede\" tabindex=\"-1\">Altschool Isn&#8217;t\u00a0just\u00a0<\/span>for Altschool anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The three independent AltSchools use a wide range of educational approaches, from Montessori to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggio_Emilia_approach\" target=\"_blank\">Reggio Emilia<\/a>, but Johnson believes they can all dovetail with the AltSchool ethos. \u201cThey\u2019re schools that look like us. They\u2019re private and independent,\u201d he says. \u201cBut they show we can take this platform and put it into external environments, and it will work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company is also providing more detail on the software it provide to these schools. There are two main tools. One, called Portrait, aims to provide a record of each student\u2019s progress in both traditional academic and non-academic contexts, like how often your kid has practiced some skill,\u00a0and it integrates\u00a0teacher narratives, educator notes, test scores, and samples of your kid\u2019s homework.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/10\/altschool-shares-secrets-outside-educators\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these\u00a0as mini educational labs where it\u2019s working to create a new kind of personalized&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,30],"tags":[29,28,31],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-featured","tag-facebook","tag-it","tag-silicon-valley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8604,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/8604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}