Closing the Educational Opportunity Gap with Nhon Ma Transformative Principal Special 1061
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 by jethrojones
Nhon Ma is the co-founder of numerade.com
- Mom was an educator in South Vietnam, Chinese immigrants who then moved to LA.
- Grew up in LAUSD system.
- Better Chance program in middle school. Placed me in a top private school.
- Shaped my thinking around education.
- Ride bus to school in a completely different culture.
- Close educational opportunity gap
- Prices for tutoring for synchronous doesn’t drop.
- Largest STEM video library.
- Jethro’s YouTube channel from when he was an English teacher
- Mass adoption of synchronous learning through zoom.
- Participation rates are much lower.
- Office hours, daily creation, Students consume content at their own time.
- Anonymous q&a feature.
- Especially with STEM students, if there is a fall-off, it’s very hard to make up lost ground.
- Stitching together playlists of math and science for students.
- How to be a transformative leader? Always focus on the why!