Our team is headed by Scott Benson, formerly of DC Public Schools, where he evaluated numerous new academic initiatives being implemented (or so he thought) across the city’s schools. Some schools did indeed take a mandate from the district, run with it, and transform the way their students learned, just as he had hoped. Yet others left their new materials untouched. After scouring countless classrooms to understand why two differentiators surfaced; forming the eventual philosophy guiding our model provider strategy today. (5 min read)