Victoria Ransom - Founder & CEO of Prisma

<p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <p>Victoria Ransom is the founder and CEO of world's first co-learning network that fully replaces regular school. Prisma is an educational startup providing its own live learning platform for 4th-8th graders (approx. age 9-14). It is Learner-centric, self-paced, outcomes-driven, interdisciplinary, and hands-on. Beyond the reading write and arithmetic, learners also enjoy Clubs, service learning, family events, and more.</p> <p>Victoria is a homeschooling mother and lifelong entrepreneur. She was also the Founder &amp; CEO of Wildfire, a social marketing software company, which she led to profitability in just one year and built to 400 employees. Wildfire was acquired by Google in 2012 for $450M. Victoria joined Google, leading Wildfire and later Google Express.</p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p> <p>00:25 What is Prisma all about?</p> <p>06:44 How are you able to bring the magic of in-person to online schooling?</p> <p>13:55 Three examples of amazing hand-on projects.</p> <p>18:46 What’s your prediction of where this is all going?</p> <p>26:44 How are your kids? What school are you choosing for them?</p> <p>28:02 Tell us about Synthesis.</p> <p>31:03 How do you find Coaches?</p> <p>34:31 If I’m a curious parent, how much is it and how many students?</p> <p>38:02 What’s your prediction on what learners will do from 9th to 12th graders?</p> <p>40:20 How are you making sure that your learners are getting enough exercise and physical movement and free play?</p> <p>42:35 Where are you geographically?</p> <p>45:10 What’s a metaphor to compare Prisma to Conventional School?</p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <p>It’s about working together to solve real-world challenges, discussion, collaboration and sharing ideas.</p> <p>We literally design a custom schedule for each kid.</p> <p>Give kids, especially 4-8 graders, some amount of scaffolding and not “do whatever you want” because that’s overwhelming to many kids.</p> <p>Will this suit everybody? No. But could it suit a lot of p