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#Education: Garrett Smiley, Co-Founder of Sora Schools
Career Bound by Praxis
English - August 17, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 38.7 MBCareers Business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Garrett Smiley, Co-Founder of Sora Schools – an innovative, online high school where students explore their interests, learn however is best for them, and gain valuable exposure to future careers and fields of work.
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Topics discussed in this episode:
- What is Sora?
- Why did you start it?
- At what point did you look at the system and realize that there was a business opportunity to do something different?
- Why there aren't a lot of options for alternative high-school options
- The beginning years of Sora and how it works
- How does Sora's student level of satisfaction compare to "traditional" school
- How Sora handles socialization while being completely online How do you handle the common arguments and questions that parents have?
Learn more about Garrett and Sora below:
Garrett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gw_smiles
Garrett's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwsmiley/
Sora Schools: https://soraschools.com/
Sora's Website: https://twitter.com/soraschools
Books referenced:
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557
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Praxis is a 6-month bootcamp that results in a full-time job at a startup.
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