Bringing learning tools to the ends of the earth
About Guide School
Founded in 2024, Guide School is dedicated to bringing AI-powered, mastery-based schooling with exceptional human guides (instead of traditional teachers) to K-12 children worldwide.
Guide School was selected by Alpha School, the fastest-growing AI-powered private school network in the United States, to train its school guides.
In its first year, Guide School exceeded revenue goals, unlocking second-year funding, and launched a growing YouTube channel alongside a full suite of Guide training modules and core academic systems to help educators stand up the classrooms and microschools of their dreams.
Our school partners have answered the call. They are proving that student-driven, guide-supported, AI-powered education can flourish anywhere — from remote islands to rural towns to urban highrises — and that children everywhere can now rise to the highest levels of achievement.
Meet the team
Heather Clayton Staker
Chief Executive Officer
Heather is a Harvard-educated education entrepreneur in the United States who is passionate about developing a workforce of Guides to give children worldwide access to joyful, high-performing schools.
Allan Staker
Chief Creative Officer
Allan is the Harvard-educated guy who leads storytelling, marketing, and media creation for Guide School. If you're enjoying our crazy social feeds and YouTube channel, you have him to thank.
Julian Perry
Director of Technology
Julian masterminds the AI-powered tech strategy that equips your Guides to deliver mastery-based learning to students worldwide, sparing you the cost and headache of managing your own tech.
Our research base
20 years of disruptive innovation
Heather's research for the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation launched this work.
We are currently running pilots across Africa and Asia to test and refine each of our tools. Because AI is evolving so rapidly, we update our learning app stack every week.
Publications
Blended
This bestselling book from the Christensen Institute showcases the Flex and other blended-learning models.
Blended Workbook
Annotated examples of blended-learning plans that Heather helped 75 school districts develop.
Microcredentialing
A method for reskilling the teacher workforce. Our "stackable competencies" stem from this research.
Malaysia
Spotlighting 88 Malaysian teachers who implemented a Microsoft model premised on student-driven learning
Singapore Pilot 2
Case study documenting a second pilot test of a Guide model in Singapore, this time with six schools.
Singapore Pilot 1
Case study documenting a pilot test of the Guide model at Fairfield Methodist School in Singapore.
Disruptive?
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Heather C. Staker posit that the Guide model is “disruptive."
Classifying K-12
One of the first papers to define blended learning, a precursor to the Guide model, and create its taxonomy.
Western Governors
An investigation of the back end of one of the US's first competency-based education systems.
Proven practices.
Efficient system.
We'll help you set up and run a Guide model with excellence and efficiency, removing costs with our economies of scale and sharing best practices from this growing movement.
Guide School is based on 20+ years of research and testing. Our team will help you succeed.
Save time and improve results by relying on our tested systems and solutions.
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