The Enrollhand Blog

Storytelling that Transforms the way Families see their School

Despite the daily flood of information, how does your school leave a lasting impression on your target group? 🌸 Stories can communicate school messaging with powerful persuasion. They simplify the complex, make everyday things

by Steve Karas

1 min read

Leadership

Parents Are Asking About Your Maths & English Programs

Parents have become more skeptical than ever about schools' ability to recover and supercharge math and English skills in large classrooms.

by Alexis Marinopoulos

2 min read

Interviews

Will the Consumerization of Education Continue?

In this episode, Jennifer and I talk about how student engagement is an outcome of strong pedagogy. We then describe a new generation of global education companies that are partnering with school districts.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

7 min read

Interviews

Why The Teacher's Job Should Be Unbundled

Build something kids will love and then figure out how to accomplish academic objectives within this highly motivated kind of environment. I like that as a first principle of building a new school.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

5 min read

Interviews

From Transferring Knowledge to Transforming Students, with Andrew Barry, Founder of Curious Lion

In this episode, we learn how everyone can design online learning experiences to repeatably effect transformations in their students' lives. Then we try to sketch out a future of what happens when more and more teachers can generate these transformations, what a world that will be!

by Andreas Marinopoulos

4 min read

Interviews

🧭 Roadmap Club, a Feedback Loop All Schools Should Have

In this episode, we catch up after our first chat 2 years ago. Then the school was just starting, now there is an innovative yet mature high school operating entirely online. It is the first digital-native high school I have studied closely, so I wanted to dig into their entire operating system.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

3 min read

How hard can school marketing be?

A lot of schools underestimate the amount of effort and resources an enrollment marketing campaign requires. Pictures of happy students doing hands-on activities will help with retention, but can they generate new inquiries and enrollments for schools?

by Steve Karas

1 min read

Engaging Your Community

420 Learning Guides Coach Learners Towards Mastery, with Kelly Smith, CEO at Prenda

Our guest today is Kelly Smith. He is the founder and CEO of Prenda schools, a network of microschools that is spreading like wildfire across state lines, bringing project-based learning and mastery-based education to a neighborhood near you.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

4 min read

Interviews

The Tutoring Rocketship Investing in Quality, Affordability & Convenience

In this episode, we talk about the origin story of GoStudent, Felix's views on what makes a learning experience successful, his tips on operating a growing educational institutions, and his regional and global plans to consolidate the fragmented tutoring market.

by Enrollhand

4 min read

Interviews

Full-stack, deep learning that feels like an emoji shower 🎉🎉

A coach appears as the governor of Wisconsin, a task force is put on a major water problem. Is it a classroom or a Hollywood set? Kids get clues and reports. Curiosity and motivation kick in. They launch a PR campaign, a budget...oh, and hit all their learning goals as well.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

4 min read

Interviews

Learning Re-Imagined For The Web, with Ryan Delk

In this episode, we discuss Ryan's ambitious plans for the future of Primer, how parents are equally important to kids in the learning equation, why observing the "user-experience" is so important, why not stratifying by age creates some sort of magic and much more.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

5 min read

Interviews

A Human-centered operating system, with Kelly Davis

Kelly and her co-founder Vlad redesigned school from scratch. Galileo a global online school soon to have access to physical spaces as well.

by Andreas Marinopoulos

6 min read

The World of Education

Where do my ads appear?

Many school leaders who haven't really dealt with Facebook ads before may get a bit confused at first. This is normal. Where are the ads and who sees them? Let's break it down

by Steve Karas

3 min read

Interviews

Product-Teacher-Family Fit, With Brian Tobal, CEO SchoolHouse

"The founding principle is that the teacher's attention is the most valuable piece in the educational brew or ecosystem. If you really want to have a high quality educational experience, you'd increase the amount of teacher attention that each child is receiving." - Brian Tobal

by Andreas Marinopoulos

3 min read