Alpha School

“Well, we have kindergartners who climb a 40 foot rock wall.”

“And so I believe next year we will have a homeschool version that somebody will be able to buy. The kids can be able to sit down and deliver two X in two hours for sure.”

“Our minimum pay for a teacher is a 100,000 dollars. And so like in the Austin market, you know, that's basically double the pay of it.”

“Well, I mean, your best example right now is just, we haven't done this at scale.”

“These kids all practice their public speaking, and then they go up to Austin FC, the stadium, and get to go, you know, once they pass, they get to see the game, and they get to go then sit and see the postgame press conference, you know, with their favorite st…”

“One of our building, our K through six building down in Austin gets more hundreds on the Texas star than a school district of a 100,000 kids.”

“And I just give you an unending stream of questions that you're engaged with that you really like, right? The amount of that you are going to learn is 10 times more than you would passively sitting in class, you know, disengaged.”

“We have one student who was, you know, and this is sort of a unique, an extreme example, and I hesitate to say it, but, you know, we had a student who was 7:40 on the math SAT. And in looking, right they were making careless errors, right? They were basically,…”

“Fundamentally the design goal that, you know, our team uses is when we put in new software or new anything, does it increase their academic knowledge or reduce the time that it takes to learn it.”

“So our academic performance is the top of any school in the country, and we do it in dramatically less time.”

“So three years ago we would just sit there and have teams of people all night, you know, the kids would finish and then all night you would just sit and watch the videos. And annotate them of, okay, that's what's going wrong here. This is what the kid's doing.…”

“We're basically the only place that has that closed loop, which is why we're able to get these crazy awesome outcomes”

“And they incrementally do it so that by December, right. These kids are able to run the five K in 35 minutes.”

“Three years ago with Gen AI, I was like, ah, this is finally the technology that is going to allow education to scale, and we can take all this awesomeness where kids can learn two, five, 10 times better, faster, and get it out to a billion kids.”

“Sometime in the next five years, I don't know exactly when, but there's going to be a tablet that's less than a thousand dollars that is going to teach every kid on this planet, everything they need to know in two hours a day, right? That's coming, right? It's…”

“Those kids aren't learning two X and two hours. They're learning three X, four X, five X. I mean, they're just crushing it because they love it.”

“We spend 20 grand a kid in this country across, you know, alphas, 40,000 plus”

“We literally don't have chat functionality activated in our AI. Like, it is not a chatbot. It's terrible. And that's not what people need, right?”

“And you know, we are AI burn is like 10,000 bucks a kid right now, but it's going to be down.”

“Our fifth Graders last year or two years ago ran an Airbnb.”

“We're actually working with some of the big streamers and video game players who are going to host these big events.”

“And it took me hundreds of parent meetings to sort of, I was slow on the, listen to the customer side. And then we switched it to two hour learning.”

“That you can teach an entire grade level Of material for one subject in about 20 to 30 hours.”

“If it, if 85% worked, I'd do that, but it doesn't. I'm pushing it to where it needs to be for it to work, and if all of a sudden you back off those, it's gonna fail for some reason, right? If you don't believe your school needs to have kids love school, they'l…”

“My first day, I literally sat in front of the parents. It was actually first day of school, which was two weeks after I started. And I was like, you know, we, we're not going to have any adult do academic teaching in this school.”

“Alpha school. It's a high end private school. It's expanding across the country, but at its core is redefining what school can be for kids.”

“The teacher in front of the classroom is like the worst way to teach kids. And there's all these ways where kids can learn two, five, 10 times faster. But it doesn't work in the teacher in front of the classroom.”

“If you use existing apps and use them at the mastery standard they have, You'll struggle to get the results we get at alpha. Because the mastery standard that's embedded in all the apps and used is just too low.”

“At the lower grades, we have, you know, low tooling, which is, you know, you're going to have five students per, per guide”

“We've invested over a hundred million dollars in getting some of the best video game designers in the world. They're down in Austin, and they are building a video game on top of the two hour learning engine that they believe will rival Any video game on the pl…”

“You got to rebuild your whole school from the ground up, right? You can't just sort of tack it on, right? This is a full rebuild.”

“So our tests, we're not getting two X and two hours with the homeschool kids.”

“Our AP kids, like, they'll do AP, you know, world history, where our kids all got fives, because the test came back a couple weeks ago. They all get fives and they spend 75 hours max to do AP.”

“And then the January maps test come back and it shows they're learning twice as much in two hours a day. So our standard is. In two hours a day, you'll learn twice as much as sitting in class for six.”