About

We are a California Private School operated by EducateONE a California Public Benefit Corporation (Control ID B20250047732).

We are registered with California under CDS Code 31668946157374 and our Federal NCES ID is A2300227.

Mission Statement

The mission of EducateONE is to profoundly and fundamentally change what "education" is, such that we legitimately meet the definition of a "paradigm shift", and this shift in definition and mindset brings about a system that improves all participants arcs of life.

Vision

Our vision is to build an integrated preschool to Ph.D. system of education. But this system will not treat students as cogs in a machine, but instead blossom with multiple methods of learning (Learning Stacks) for multiple life outcomes (Learning Trajectories).

Our Values

We are uncovering better ways of educating the world by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

• Effort over Talent – Talent matters, yet disciplined practice unlocks it. Evidence has shown that many people with natural talent do not succeed, because everyone at any talent level, will ultimately have difficulty, and those with grit are those who will ultimately succeed, and for those that it previously came naturally, they often give up.
• Action over Planning – Insight emerges from iterative doing and data. Old methods of "project management" don't work under uncertainty; and even agile development don't work under extreme uncertainty; only extreme agile methods work, and that is what we use.
• Humanity over Culture – We celebrate cultures while serving the whole human family. We hold the truth to be evident that all humans have equal value with globally recognized human rights.
• Learning over Teaching – Learning is the goal; teaching is one means to reach that goal. And teaching with direct instruction may not be the optimal method for learning. Thus we work to engineer learning, which we call "eduneering".
• Evidence over Eminence – Decisions stand on data, not hierarchy. All participants are expected to question the status quo and respectfully question what they learn from each other, as none of know everything nor are always correct; and only through recognizing our fallibility, do we become less fallible.
• Principles over Orthodoxy – Ethical first‑principles are more important than cultural norms. Cultural traditions express humanity’s moral foundations, but they are not the final measure of what is right. Through reason, evidence, and reflection, we evaluate inherited beliefs and seek principles that support human flourishing across cultures.
• Openness over Ownership – Shared knowledge accelerates collective good.
• Creativity over Convention – Progress springs from questioning the status quo
• Competency over Curricula – Mastery, not seat‑time, signals readiness.
• Possibility over Predictability – Curiosity fuels discovery in a changing world.
• Application over Assignments – Impactful work beats paperwork.
• Contribution over Consumption – Sustainable ecosystems only exist when everyone gives back.
• Validity over Accuracy – While we shall always be transparent that there is always more nuance, we recognize that full accuracy is often not appropriate, for example it would be wrong to attempt to explain to a Kindergartener that gravity is a bend in space-time, even though this is most accurate! It is valid at their learning level to say it is what makes things fall down.

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

The Story of Our School

Global SchoolONE and EducateONE, more broadly, doesn't have a clean "start date" as an idea. It could be when Jacob Walker was pulled out of "school" and took a 3-month trip around the United States, seeing many historic sites and museums, going through the Capital and Whitehouse, and visiting three different space centers, including having a "mini space camp" at Kennedy Space Center. Because previous to that trip he was considered one of the slower kids in class, while afterwards, he was the "smart kid". It could have been at Del Oro High School, where he had some truly amazing teachers, that he not only learned the subjects from, but saw how they facilitated learning in different ways. It might have been from when he co-founded an Internet provider, and realized that the technical support he was providing was really a teaching role. But It honestly was when Jacob started teaching in adult education, with a mastery learning method, he realized how much better education could be. And later, when he was asked to write educational content standards for the State of California, and saw that this process was not nearly as rigorous as one might think, he knew that education didn't need just reform, but a full rethink from the ground up.

Our Strategic Plan

Most organizations have a roadmap and call it a "Strategic Plan". True strategy is based on following principles that lead to success. So while we will have roadmaps when there is enough certainty to know there is a sufficient probability that things will happen mostly as planned, this is instead the strategies we follow to reach our success with or without a roadmap:

1. More Effect for the Effort: EducateONE always works to gain greater social value for the resources used, by setting up systems where truly the sum is greater than its parts.
2. Extreme-Agile Flow of Play Project "Management": Traditional organizations use a "waterfall" method of project management, which fail when there is too much epistemic uncertainty. This is why agile methods like Scrum were devised. But even these methods struggle in today's extreme uncertainty and change where the world can change literally before a sprint finishes. So we use methods more akin to Association Football than Rugby, to handle this continual fluidity of the environment.
3. Deming's Continual Improvement: Once systems are built, they will become outdated compared to newer competition if we do not actively work to improve our systems each day.