Tom Jackson, Author at NextSteps: Step Up For Students

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom Jackson

My background story

What I did before joining Step Up For Students

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06/26/23 | Tom Jackson

New edTonomy app helps entrepreneurs manage the business of education

Lexa Duno became an educational entrepreneur before educational entrepreneurialism was cool, or even a thing. In 2015, as a fifth-grade teacher in a Tampa private school, Duno thought she was...

06/07/23 | Tom Jackson

How choice navigators at education nonprofit Outschool.org are helping families with ‘decision fatigue’

School choice means options and opportunity. It also packs daunting responsibility for parents who want to do what’s best for their offspring but are uncertain where to turn. It’s one...

05/08/23 | Tom Jackson

Following the way, the truth and the light to serving all students

MINNEOLA, Fla. — The way Charles Williams sees it, if the human vessel comes to the conversation with humility, faith and willingness, the Almighty can communicate a message of divine...

03/01/23 | Tom Jackson

‘A better experience’ awaits students fortunate to attend this Alabama community school

A little more than three years ago, Keemarius Thomas was a rudderless middle-schooler stuck in a hardscrabble Birmingham public school. Whatever his aspirations, his prospects seemed limited by history —...

12/29/22 | Tom Jackson

National Microschooling Center launches, proving ‘modern one-room schoolhouse’ is no flash-in-the-pandemic phenomenon

Editor’s note: In keeping with our year-end tradition, the team at reimaginED reviewed our work over the past 12 months to find stories and commentaries that represent our best content...

12/05/22 | Tom Jackson

South Florida school a ‘builder of boys, maker of men’

Just now, the news Palm Beach Christian Preparatory School is making belongs on the sports pages — which is what you would expect when a bunch of coaches launches a...

10/31/22 | Tom Jackson

CREATE Conservatory’s new home is a hole-in-one

Once in a great while, the hook for an article — that is, the thing that caught the journalist’s eye in the first place — winds up being...

10/20/22 | Tom Jackson

New Jersey entrepreneur breathes new life into traditional education models

The simple answer to what makes Jill Perez tick most likely is the wrong one. Just because she never was a fan of masking youngsters, it’s easy — possibly even...

10/03/22 | Tom Jackson

Educator-entrepreneur on a course to be a ‘maker of differences’

School choice is plenty of things, and most of them involve helping students find the manner of instruction that suits them best. If that were all school choice was about,...

06/27/22 | Tom Jackson

KaiPod Learning offers flexible span of educational opportunities, endless choice for families

Originally tagged “pandemic learning pods,” as though once the COVID-19 emergency had passed, so would these traditional education alternatives, the micro-school phenomenon appears ready to shed its born-of-the-moment modifier. No...