About

Global SchoolONE is a California Private School operated by EducateONE a California Public Benefit Corporation (Control ID B20250047732).

Global SchoolONE is registered with California under CDS Code 31668946157374 and our Federal NCES ID is A2300227, although currently that ID is not public due to a regulatory Procrustean bed about how Global SchoolONE is classified, when we are BOTH an institutional school AND a homeschool co-op.

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.

Leadership & Governance

Jacob Walker, Executive Director

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:

Jacob Walker

• Early experience with amazing learning via travel as opposed to being in a class room with set curriculum
• Amazing teachers throughout high school, that he saw different methods of how they induced learning
• 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.
• Teaching in an open entry adult education course that required mastery learning for students to earn certification
• 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.
• Tasked by Principal Kirk Williams, he was the primary architect of transforming Twin Rivers Adult School from a standard adult school, to being more akin to a technical college, gaining Title IV Postsecondary Accreditation, and being responsible for millions of dollars of Pell Grant funding for students to fund the school during the "Great Recession".
• 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.
• 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.
• After Twin Rivers Adult School ultimately lost its funding due to state and district cuts, he was the primary architect of