DreamBox Learning

also referred to as: dreambox

9 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 8, 2020 by Jessie Woolley-Wilson · said 30 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (16), Jessie Woolley-Wilson (13), Sandra Oh Lin (1)

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Aug 8, 2020 bullish
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Woolley-Wilson: DreamBox added over 2 million students in five weeks
“And within six weeks, we nearly doubled the number of students and districts were really desperate. So fifth In five weeks. So that was over two million students that were added.”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 3:31 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020 positive
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Woolley-Wilson: Over 5 million K-8 students use DreamBox through schools
“So over five million. Students K through eight are using Dreambox through our schools.”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 3:50 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020 positive
Insight
Woolley-Wilson: 'Benevolent friction' means being hard on ideas, soft on people
“So benevolent friction is trying to capture the importance of Courageous conversations. We want to be hard on ideas, but soft on people.”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 18:18 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020
Disclosure
Woolley-Wilson: DreamBox moved staff to four-day workweeks during early pandemic
“Earlier, as part of our cost reduction, we moved everybody to a four-day workweek.”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 4:37 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020 bullish
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Woolley-Wilson: Edtech will see sustained post-pandemic growth as a must-have
“We really feel like education technology is a V-shape, and we're seeing that now. We've had explosive growth in users, as I mentioned, and we expect that that is going to continue for the future, because we feel like people who were trying out learning technol…”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 11:34 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020
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Woolley-Wilson: 40% of DreamBox employees are former educators
“40% of the employees at Dreambox are former educators.”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 7:47 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020 positive
Insight
Woolley-Wilson: Prioritizing staff over immediate revenue ultimately protects the business
“And we figured if we took care of our staff, then we could take care of our customers. And then the third piece was, if we take care of our customers, then we will take care of our company. So the default was not, what do we do to take care of revenue? The def…”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 1:35 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020 positive
Insight
Woolley-Wilson: Edtech should assist teachers' personalization, not replace them
“We think technology should do what technology does best, which is to help understand the thinking process of children and to give them actionable insights so that they can modify their instructional strategy and personalize it to be more high impact for every …”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 7:55 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
Aug 8, 2020
Disclosure
Woolley-Wilson: DreamBox shifted to institutional sales to reach all children
“So one of the reasons we moved from the consumer approach to the institutional approach is to bring Dreambox to every child. We brought Dreambox to where all kids were in schools. Not just to the parents who happen to know about it, but to institutions and com…”
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Aug 8, 2020 ▶ 9:02 How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox
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