What Makes a School 10x Better? | Joe Liemandt

A 10x better school focuses on five dimensions: making kids love school, enabling 10x faster learning via AI, teaching crucial life skills, empowering teachers as mentors, and fostering character, community, classmates, and culture.

• A 10x better school aims for students to love learning and accelerate their pace with AI.

• Crucial life skills, like those from 'Atomic Habits', are integrated through practical, empowering challenges.

• Teachers act as transformative mentors, connecting deeply with students, while fostering character and community.

A truly exceptional school prioritizes student engagement, aiming for children to love school more than vacation, and leverages AI tutors to accelerate learning tenfold. It integrates essential life skills, like 'Atomic Habits,' through practical applications such as training second graders to run a 5K. Teachers are empowered to be transformative mentors, focusing on connecting with students rather than administrative tasks, while building character, community, and a positive culture.

Enhanced School Dimensions

• 00:00:05 A school can be 10x better by focusing on five core dimensions. First, students must genuinely love school, with measurement showing over 50% prefer it to vacation. Second, an AI tutor, based on learning science, is employed to enable kids to learn 10 times faster. Third, critical life skills are taught, which parents wish they had known, filling the day with impactful activities.

Life Skills Through Experience

• 00:00:47 Life skills are effectively taught through experiential learning, as demonstrated by a guide named Faith who taught 'Atomic Habits' to second graders. She challenged them to run a 5K race, initially perceived as impossible by both students and parents. Through a gradual approach of walking and progressively running longer distances, all students completed the race by December, instilling the valuable lesson that '1% Better' daily effort can lead to achieving seemingly impossible goals.