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| Global SchoolONE is a California Private School operated by EducateONE a California Public Benefit Corporation (Control ID [https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/206109101229039095021119221092101110172198156066 B20250047732]).
| | We are a California Private School operated by EducateONE a California Public Benefit Corporation (Control ID [https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/206109101229039095021119221092101110172198156066 B20250047732]). |
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| Global SchoolONE is registered with California under [https://www.cde.ca.gov/SchoolDirectory/details?cdscode=31668946157374 CDS Code 31668946157374] and our Federal NCES ID is A2300227, although currently that ID is not public due to a regulatory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes Procrustean bed] about how Global SchoolONE is classified, when we are BOTH an institutional school AND a homeschool co-op.
| | We are registered with California under [https://www.cde.ca.gov/SchoolDirectory/details?cdscode=31668946157374 CDS Code 31668946157374] and our [[FAQ#Why is Global SchoolONE not found in the PSS Private School Locator?|Federal NCES ID is A2300227]]. |
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| == Leadership & Governance ==
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| === Jacob Walker, Executive Director/Principal ===
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| Jacob Walker is the founder of EducateONE and Global SchoolONE. He has had the fortune to have the rare life experiences that prepares one to take on the daunting task of developing an education system from the ground up.[[File:Jacob walker new profile picture.jpg|alt=Portrait of Jacob Walker. AI enhanced based on multiple actual photographs.|left|thumb|Jacob Walker]]• Early experience with amazing learning via travel as opposed to being in a class room with set curriculum
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| * Amazing teachers throughout high school, that he saw different methods of how they induced learning
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| * The fortune to be ahead of the technology curve, by co-founding the first internet provider in Placer County, using a smartphone before the iPhone existed, and working with AI previous to ChatGPT's public release.
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| * Teaching in an open entry adult education course that required mastery learning for students to earn certification
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| * Inspired by W. Edwards Deming, Eliyahu Goldratt, Tom Peters, James Collins, and Jerry Porras in continual improvement, he brought this self-reflection and improvement to his classroom, being awarded Teacher of the Year at his school.
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| *Tasked by Principal Kirk Williams, he was the primary architect of transforming Twin Rivers Adult School to becoming akin to a technical college, gaining Title IV Accreditation responsible for millions of dollars of Pell Grant funding.
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| *During this process, he led Twin Rivers Adult School through a new WASC accreditation protocol and COE accreditation; because of his experience doing these accreditation, we was asked by WASC to advise them on their protocol changes.
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| *Further, during this time, he was asked by the California Department of Education, to write updated Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards for Information Support and Services & Software and Systems Development.
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| *After Twin Rivers Adult School ultimately lost its funding due to district cuts, he was the primary architect of Highlands Community Charter School, which he had the integrity to be a whistleblower when it was later consumed by corruption.
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| *Continuing his work to change education he has met with top education leaders in Uganda and the Minister of Higher Education of Malawi to develop a university, but unfortunately in both cases, politics got in the way.
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| Despite there being an easier path to take, Jacob feels that so many have invested in his life to do good, that he must do his best to bring dividends of good to this world.
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| === Olga Evans, Chief Academic Officer/AI Officer ===
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| Olga Evans serves as Chief Academic Officer and AI Officer at EducateONE, where she leads the strategic design of learning systems built for the world we are rapidly approaching. She is the kind of leader who can reimagine education at the systems level while remaining grounded in the lived reality of learners and educators.
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| [[File:Olga evans profile picture.jpg|alt=Profile Picture of Olga Evans|left|thumb|Olga Evans]]
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| • Leads the strategic design of adaptive learning ecosystems that integrate linguistics, psychology, and emerging AI models, so that students can learn quicker and better content that is more relevant to their lives.
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| * Distinguishes her work through intentionality: she approaches AI not as a mechanism to automate learning, but as a relational and ethical partner in human development.
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| * Has shaped EducateONE’s thinking on personalization, access, and evidence-based innovation across global contexts, with special focus on learners historically excluded from high-quality education.
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| * Brings an uncommon combination of strengths: deep academic rigor, hands-on systems thinking, and lived experience working across cultures, languages, and institutional boundaries.
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| * Operates fluently across pedagogical theory, AI architecture-level conversations, nonprofit governance, and the day-to-day realities of implementation.
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| * Serves as a critical bridge between vision and execution—translating complex ideas into systems that can actually function in real human environments.
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| * Has been instrumental in guiding EducateONE’s ethical frameworks for AI adoption, consistently asking the questions that matter most: not only can we build something, but should we, for whom, and under what conditions.
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| * Sees education as a living system, knowing that learning is not programmed but awakened by relationship, trust, and intellectual honesty, which she shows through how she designs, mentors, and challenges assumptions, including her own.
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| Olga Evans is a systems-level thinker with a human core, able to lead at the intersection of education, AI, and ethical futures while remaining deeply attuned to the individuals within the systems she builds.
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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).
Values
- Effort over Talent – Talent matters, yet disciplined practice unlocks it.
- Action over Planning – Insight emerges from iterative doing and data.
- Humanity over Culture – Celebrate cultures while serving the whole human family.
- Learning over Teaching – Learning is the goal; teaching is one means.
- Evidence over Eminence – Decisions stand on data, not hierarchy.
- Principles over Orthodoxy – Ethical first‑principles are more important than cultural norms.
- 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.
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 Philosophy
