Guide Onboarding Lab
A live, three-hour workshop for new microschool guides
Give your new guides a confident first week. Practice coaching, progress checks, and classroom routines—and leave with a practical first-week plan.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
10am - 1pm Central | Live online
$499 per participant
Includes the 15-hour, self-paced From Teacher to Guide course
Course overview
What you'll walk away with
Coach with confidence
Practice coaching students to set goals and take ownership of their learning.
Help students get unstuck
Practice checking progress and helping students find a way forward when stuck.
Build strong routines
Plan daily routines that support independence and a positive learning culture.
Your first-week plan
Bring these skills together in a practical plan for your microschool’s first week.
Go deeper with the included course
Your registration also includes From Teacher to Guide, the 15-hour, self-paced course. Explore the guide model through examples, videos, and templates.
Earn an Arizona State University Certificate of Completion by completing the included course. Optional Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available through ASU.
Brought to you by three leaders in educational innovation
Together, Arizona State University, Guide School, and the Clayton Christensen Institute bring research, innovation, and real-world implementation into a single learning experience.
Arizona State University
One of the most innovative universities in the world, Arizona State University has become a global leader in reimagining how learning works. Through Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, ASU is helping educators prepare for the future of teaching and learning.
Guide School
Guide School develops exceptional Guides and practical operating systems to implement the Guide model. Our approach combines the efficiency of AI-powered, personalized learning with the mentorship, coaching, and culture-building that only humans can provide.
Christensen Institute
Founded on the work of Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, the Christensen Institute is a leading voice in disruptive innovation in education. Its research has helped educators harness emerging technologies to transform learning and expand opportunity for students.
Meet your lead instructor
Heather Clayton Staker
From Harvard researcher to school builder
For nearly two decades, I've studied how innovative schools work—and why so many promising ideas fail to scale.
Today, I lead Guide School and World Microschools, where we're putting Guide-model education into practice with real students and real schools.
In Indonesia, students using our model achieved 3.6× expected academic growth while gaining more time to grow a sustainable farm, play football, and do a plastic-recycling project.
What I've learned is paradoxical:
AI isn't making educators less important. It's making the human side of education more important than ever.
The educators who thrive in the future will spend less time delivering instruction and more time coaching and motivating students.
In this course, I'll share the mindsets, systems, and practical frameworks that help educators evolve from Teacher to Guide.
Harvard College | Harvard MBA | McKinsey Strategy Consultant | Christensen Institute | California State Board of Education | Author of multiple books on educational innovation | Founder, Guide School | 3.6× student growth
Are you an educator who senses something has to change, but doesn't know what comes next?
✅ You'll benefit from this course if you are:
- A classroom teacher with significant autonomy to disrupt the status quo
- A school leader who's willing and able to champion an unconventional pilot program
- A microschool or homeschool leader, teacher, or guide
- An entrepreneur who believes families need something better
- A curious individual who's simply looking for new solutions to persistent problems in K-12 education
🚫 This course may not be a fit for you if:
- You're a teacher or leader in a standard classroom model and you have little freedom to experiment with new approaches.
- You see AI primarily as a tool for making lesson planning, grading, and administrative tasks more efficient—not for reimagining the instructional model itself.
- You're looking for technical AI training, prompt engineering, or software tutorials.
- You believe the role of the educator should remain largely unchanged in the age of AI.
✅✅✅ That said, every school needs a small team exploring what comes next.
Inside your included course: From Teacher to Guide
Go deeper with 15 hours of self-paced learning across five modules-included with your live Lab registration.
Module 1
See why the classroom model is being disrupted
Understand the forces reshaping education and why personalized, AI-powered learning is creating new possibilities for students and educators.
Module 2
Make the five mindset shifts of exceptional Guides
Learn how great educators move beyond traditional assumptions about teaching, motivation, and student success.
Module 3
Build an academic engine that leverages AI
Use a practical framework to evaluate learning apps, personalize instruction, and create a system students can navigate independently.
Module 4
Design powerful Guided Learning Arcs
Learn how to combine academics, coaching, projects, culture, and motivators into a learning experience students love.
Module 5
Refine your model and prepare for launch
Identify weaknesses, stress-test your design, and leave with a practical plan you can implement immediately.
Guide Lab + Course Bundle
Live practice for a confident first week, plus deeper learning at your own pace.
Guide Onboarding Lab
$499 per participant
One-time payment | Workshop and course included
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Give your guides a confident first week
Practice coaching, progress checks, and daily routines in the live Guide Onboarding Lab. Leave with a practical first-week plan—and go deeper with the included From Teacher to Guide course.
Three-hour live online workshop + 15-hour self-paced course
$499 per participant · One-time payment
Register My Guide