Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you see white spaces? I’ll give you an example. One of the things we’re learning in this COVID world is that at the elementary school level, distance learning is performing poorly. Clearly that is something that needs work. It needs to be thought through. The other thing that I’m observing is

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the level of adoption and penetration into this particular marketplace? How big is the market? How many kinds in that age group are there in America? What percentage of that have you been able to crack? Stephen Spahn: What you really have is quite a large market which would include students

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What do they pay? What is the pricing of this program? Stephen Spahn: It depends. It’s fairly flexible in terms of what parents can afford so that you can have parents paying more or less depending upon their circumstances. We have our own internal guideline so that if a person is very talented

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I understand your positioning. It sounds like you are taking these areas where you have quite gifted people pursuing a certain track. You’re giving them a more well-rounded education. How does a program for a dancer differ from that of a basketball player for example? Stephen Spahn: They have the same base program.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get a little bit more focused on the things you do. Especially in online education, what is it that you’re doing and what is unique and special? Stephen Spahn: Because we’re leaders in the international baccalaureate (IB), we’re the first school to test online and work with other schools interested in becoming

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 1)

Very interesting discussion on online methods of providing a well-rounded education to gifted kids who pursue Sports and Arts careers. Sramana Mitra: If you could introduce yourself as well as Dwight Schools Group to start with, that would be awesome.