Perceptive Education
What if we could know not just what each student is learning, but how and why, and we could put this knowledge in the hands of every teacher, coach, caregiver, and researcher working to give students the opportunities they deserve?
Perceptive Education is working to build the classroom data ecosystem of the future. It envisions a shared data system that is safe, equitable, transparent, and that will drive breakthrough improvements in student outcomes and enable the next generation of fundamental insights into teaching and learning.
Perceptive Education aims to build a classroom data ecosystem that provides teachers, parents, instructional coaches, and system leaders the granular insights to understand the unique strengths and needs of every student and gives researchers access to large, anonymized, ecologically valid datasets to build new measurement constructs as the state of science evolves.
Ted Quinn is the Director of Wildflower Labs, the research and innovation arm of Wildflower Schools, a growing nationwide network of independent, teacher-led, intentionally diverse Montessori micro-schools. As an independent consultant, he also works with a number of different educational organizations on innovation, impact, and technology initiatives. Before Wildflower, he spent nearly a decade as the SVP of Organizational Learning at Teach For America, where he led a wide range of research, innovation, and knowledge management activities. In his past life, he was an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Co., where he advised clients on strategy and performance issues. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in physics from Stanford University.
Dr. Carlis leads the strategic vision for the design, implementation, and evaluation of Acelero, Inc.’s programs and services. Prior to joining Acelero, Inc., she was a teacher, instructional leader, and early childhood instructional model designer. Most recently, she served as principal consultant for eyemaginED, where she partnered with schools, nonprofits, and philanthropic organizations to advance systems-level educational equity. She holds a bachelor;s degree in physics from Howard University, a master’s degree in bilingual special education from The George Washington University, and a doctorate of philosophy in special education – learning disabilities from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Carlis’ six-word memoir is “motivated by love, justice, and stories.”