The second wave of personalized learning and future of edtech - ChalkTalk www.chalktalk.com

1. The First Wave of Personalized Learning
Knewton
Raised $180M.Acquired
in Sep 2019 for $17M.
AltSchool
Raised $174M.Folded in June 2019,
rebranded to Altitude learning.
WHY DID THE FIRST WAVE SUFFER?
The first wave approached learning
as tech-centric activity to be
optimized with algorithms and data
science. In reality, learning is
fundamentally a social activity:
students learn best from human
interactions with their teachers and
peers.
ChalkTalk and the Second Wave of Personalized Learning
At ChalkTalk, our approach to personalized learning was first through the lens of
teachers, then through the lens of software engineers. We broke down a
classroom to its three constituent building blocks:
1. A schedule and lesson plans to
organize the scope and sequence
2. A set of formative and summative
assessments to gauge progress.
To make up a classroom
course,these blocks are tied
together with:
Launch and Results
East Boston High School
Moved from 3rd to 22nd percentile on the
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment
System; had the highest SAT score improvements
since the school’s founding.
Summit Academy Charter School
100% of students were admitted into college;
more students scored greater than 1000 on the SAT
since the school’s founding (even with an SAT prep
class in place for 5 years prior).
Learning is a social activity.We don’t remember our
favorite textbooks and publishers—but we do
remember our favorite teachers because ultimately,
education is not content; education is not technology;
education is human.
Would you like to see ChalkTalk in action at your
school? Contact us to book a consultation today:
https://chalktalk.com/
These results were replicated at numerous schools and large districts
we’ve worked with since.
More than 80 percent of teachers who try ChalkTalk end up utilizing it in
more than 90 percent of their scheduled classes of their clases. Students
who used ChalkTalk had score improvements 2-6 times greater than those
of students who didn’t use it and received a full year of traditional class-
room instruction.