Driven 2 Educate

“Technology is never going to replace the need for great teachers.” One Mother’s Day, Alicia Herald decided to try online dating. Although she wasn’t successful in the love department, her career was thriving. After years of teaching fourth graders in South Central Los Angeles, she had joined the staff of Teach For America as a recruiter and had most recently started and operated the Teach For America – Kansas City region as their executive director. After all this time in the educational system, she had noticed numerous pain points and had seen the state of American schools first-hand. Statistics like 20% of teachers leaving every year or only 50% of teachers making it to their 5th year, made her realize that something had to change and it had to change fast. While the online dating scene wasn't working out quite as she had planned, it lead her to one of those entrepreneurial "Aha" moments! She saw that if you took the concept of online dating and applied it to K-12 education, y