Edefy vs Newton by KaiPod Learning

Edefy is building a community driven elementary education marketplace to expand parental choice, uplift great teachers, and improve student outcomes. Our mobile app aligns families into student peer groups and matches them with best-fit teachers at dedicated meeting spaces from nearby hosts in the community. Families: Professional educators matched to learning groups of just 8-12 students enables highly personalized attention and independent student progressions Direct accountability and full transparency between families and teachers improves trust and builds stronger community relationships Significantly reduced administrative and facilities overheads lowers costs for families and limits inflationary tuition increases Teachers: Experience closer community relationships shaping a personalized learning experience for a maximum of 12 students Enjoy more creative authority over your classroom and direct responsibility for student outcomes Earn competitive starting compensation based on experience, then accelerate earnings and improve placement status each year with results oriented metrics Hosts: Existing microschool/pod/cooperative? Benefit from automated enrollment, administrative tools and a centralized logistics platform that helps solve your year-to-year continuity challenges Choose to be actively involved shaping the education experience according to your preferences, or simply rent your rooms Minimal equipping requirements leaves rooms available for regular use outside school hours and over weekends.

Create authentic, joyful, and highly-effective learning spaces for the children in your communities using Newton by KaiPod Learning. Parents, students, educators, and microschool admins all use Newton to communicate and plan each student's best learning experience. With Newton by KaiPod Learning, educators and school admins can quickly and seamlessly manage enrollments, student information, attendance, student’s tasks, and parent communication. Over are the days of hand-written task planning, one-way messages without parent responses, and multiple systems to run your school. With Newton microschool management is easy on your iPhone, iPad, or laptop. For parents, Newton is a direct line to their children's microschool for regular updates, task planning, and even photos of their progress. Anytime you would like to adjust your child’s education plan, see photos of your child in their microschool, or communicate with their educator or school admin, Newton by KaiPod Learning is ready to assist. Included Features: • ENROLLMENTS: Post an enrollment form on your website that can be easily imported directly into KaiPod Newton. Track different sites, student groups (pods), and concurrent programs like summer camps, day school, and afterschool activities. • MESSAGING: Easy to use messaging between parents and educators. Get notified by email, text message, or push notification so you never miss important messages. • STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM: Keep all information for each student in one convenient place. In Newton’s Student Information System, you can view important student information like parent contact information, enrollment history, preferred curriculum, authorized pickups, important health safety info, and academic records. • TASK PLANNING: In Newton’s task planner, students' weekly plans and task lists are co-managed by the students themselves, their parents, educators, and school admins. This functionality encourages the students, their parents, and the educators to work together to plan each day and week. Newton also offers the option to post photos of paper plans or completed assignments. • ATTENDANCE: Take attendance for the school day, including if a student leaves and returns for a doctor's visit, dentist appointment, etc. Easily editable and reportable. • PHOTO GALLERY: Take photos of your students with your smartphone and upload them for a student's weekly plan or to share with the student's family. Each photo can be tagged for each included student so parents can see what their student’s days are like.