Joe Liemandt

We always talk about in standard school, there's a whole set of things that 70% you're passing.

You don't know 30% of the material.

And then they move you on to more advanced things.

It's sort of like in basketball, if you're the point guard and you lose the ball 30% of the time going down the court,

The coach is not going to be like, hey, let's work on the alley-oop.

They're going to be like, okay, let's get back to the basics and master the basics so you can get down the court.

They're close to 100.

Close to 100.

So our standard is over 90.

One of the things that we do versus other apps and what we had to surround the apps was if you use existing apps and use them at the mastery standard they have,

you'll struggle to get the results we get at alpha because the mastery standard that's embedded in all the apps and used is just too low.

let's go through just in order.

If you take personalized lesson plans, the first thing is if you need a fourth grade lesson, it's really important that you're given a fourth grade lesson, even if you're in sixth grade.

So it's like one-on-one tutor.

It's like Bloom's one-on-one tutor.

The second part is you do need mastery.

And so back to fourth grade, go learn it.

And when kids are struggling as they get older, the real issue isn't that they're struggling in the older material.

It's the prior material.

And so just put them into the prior material.