Why OpenSchool ePortfolio Will Save Education

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Current methods of educational assessment and our national obsession with testing and "outcomes" is detrimental to creativity and the innovation that we need to solve the problems of the world. We've been working on a solution to this for --- take a look.

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For Teaching. For Learning. For Life.

…a guy takes his grandmother in for

a checkup

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Doc: Granny’s in great shape. She’s got 93% of her teeth and her bone density is over 1200. Fantastic shape for a woman of her age.

Guy: But doctor, Granny doesn’t have a pulse!

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• Education is suffering from the same narrow assessment.

• Most important indicators are being overlooked.

• Inadequate and not aligned to the 21st century.

Stuck in Doc’s exam room

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The Solution

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Organizes & showcases student work

Features

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Organizes & showcases student workAligned to Common Core Standards

Features

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Organizes & showcases student workAligned to Common Core StandardsMeasures academic engagement

Features

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Organizes & showcases student workAligned to Common Core StandardsMeasures academic engagementTracks social-emotional, artistic, &technical growth

Features

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There are other e-Portfolios.

What makes ours better?

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For teachers by teachers

Experience, Ease & Excellence

and students

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For teachers by teachersEasiest teacher-student workflow tool on any platform

Experience, Ease & Excellence

and students

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For teachers by teachersEasiest teacher-student workflow tool on any platformRich, built-in assessment rubrics for a truly holistic assessment

Experience, Ease & Excellence

and students

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Competition

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Business Model

Contact Us

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Countries 65+Churn Rate 6% SXSWedu 2014

Site Traffic +18%/moScholarly Mentions 4/moRM Unify

6000

LTV > CAC 3x

Traction

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65+ countries

BETT Show;

Speaker at SXSWedu ’14

More Traction

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Launched beta

Over 1500 users

1st paying customer

Funding! $$$

1 million users

5 million users

Jan, 2013

Jul, 2013

Aug, 2013

Jan, 2014

Dec, 2014

Dec, 2018

Milestones

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so far

next steps

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Akilesh Sharma - President & CEO of A3Logics• Our co-founding engineer• MSME award for "Outstanding Entrepreneurship” 2011, India, • 7 dedicated analysts/engineers from A3logics on our team• Write apps for CRM; Manage SEO

Steve Zimmerman - Founder & CEO•Founder of 2 successful NYC charter schools•Started charter support organization for leadership•Created instructional design company for U.S. publishers•Rode a horse across Afghanistan

The Supreme Six• Nancy Harm sales• Santi Khairassame educational technology• Jeff Vohden marketing• Megan Miller editorial• Dave Mainella analytics• Ben Bynum design

Our Team

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For Teaching. For Learning. For Life.

37-24 24th St. Suite #343Long Island City, NY 11101www.openschooleportfolio.comtel: (917) 435-0184