Hi there everyone,
My name is Teresa Gonczy.
I just sold one business (local, not scaled), and am taking some time
off to study. I'm doing a masters in educational leadership, and am
interested in how educational solutions can be scaled. Previously, I
helped to start a character elementary school and a family-friendly makerspace.
I
would love to meet anyone else who is interested in education! I'm
more on the people side (actual schools/nonprofits that work with the
children) and less on the edtech side.
In the last six months, who has taught you a valuable lesson about scaling up excellence?
In
the last six months, several of my friends who founded start-ups
stepped down/over from their original CEO positions into strategy or
technology positions. The lesson that I took from that is to let go and
make sure that you're putting the right people in the right positions -
which as you scale, may mean putting someone else in charge.
I'm taking some time off right now to do a Master's degree through Harvard Extension, and I'm also taking multiple classes through Coursera, EdX, Kennedy School ExecEd, UC Irvine, etc. Everything from educational policy & leadership to quantitative research & data analysis to non-profit management & financial accounting. This blog is a place for me to collect my learnings from this adventure I'm on! Most of the time, I'll just be cutting and pasting from various assignments or papers to be able to easily reference them later, but sometimes I'll do specific blog posts knitting my thoughts together from the different coursework. :-)
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