We bet on teachers
What we do
One good teacher shapes hundreds of children over a career. Some shape not just their own class, but the work of a whole team. So we’re not trying to invent a new pedagogy — we help teachers and coordinators get better at the work they already do.
We take approaches that already work well, learn to use them ourselves, and test them in practice. More than half of every program is practice: participants teach children and then go over the lessons with a mentor.
We care less about what looks good in a workshop than what still works afterwards — in a regular class of 35 on a Tuesday morning.
What about AI?
We teach teachers to use AI — and to teach children how to use it — instead of training AI to replace teachers.
For teachers
We start with the later years of primary school and the beginning of middle school — when many children’s interest in learning starts to fade.
We work on very practical things: how to get a class’s attention without raising your voice; how to build motivation that doesn’t run on grades; how to start a lesson with a real question; how to lead a discussion where children answer each other instead of guessing what the teacher wants to hear.
After the intensive, participants spend several weeks teaching children — and go over each week’s lessons with a mentor.
For coordinators
Coordinators (rakazim) keep teaching while also helping a whole team work well. It’s a hard role: leading people who don’t formally report to you, giving feedback that actually helps, sharing the load — and not getting buried in coordination.
We’re building this program together with rakazim. The first pilot starts in fall 2026.
The two programs are connected: strong teachers need schools where they can do good work and want to stay.
The first pilot
In summer 2026, 17 teachers finished our first intensive. 16 of them are now continuing paid teaching practice with children and meet with a mentor every week; 14 of the 17 would recommend the program to colleagues.
Two-thirds of the children we surveyed said they’d like to have lessons like these at school. For now, it’s an early signal from a very favorable setting — we’ll see whether it holds up in regular classrooms.
Do participants get paid?
Yes. Teachers have more than enough work without us, so we pay participants both for the training and for the practice with children.
If we believe a teacher’s time matters, it makes sense to act like it.
Who we are
Co-Founder & CEO
Former CEO of Gradarius; previously CTO and Head of Informatika at Yandex Education. 13+ years in EdTech in the US and the CIS.
Let’s talk
If you’re a teacher or coordinator, represent a school or municipality, or simply want to see whether we could do something together — leave your contact in the form or write to us.
