Housing.com co-founder Advitiya Sharma’s new venture Genius Learning
Lab will start off with 500 technology-led ‘micro schools’ across five cities.
Genius Micro Schools will open their doors in July after the selection of
teacher-entrepreneurs is over.
A month after leaving Housing.com, Sharma is in the process of setting
up a network of micro schools run by individual teachers who will teach
kindergarten to eighth grade students mathematics, science and English at their
homes. Sharma said Genius will begin with five cities — Delhi, Mumbai,
Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
Sharma and four others – two
Silicon Valley-based technologists and two educators whose names he declined to
disclose – are behind this venture. The website of the venture, inviting
teachers to become partners was launched on Thursday night.“We have got around
500 calls from those who would like to be our partners. Around 300 of them are
teachers themselves and we even got calls from a 65-year-old retired CEO who is
passionate about teaching,” claimed Sharma.
He said the firm would select teachers in the next one to two months
and offer them training. A teacher will run three to four batches of 5-8
students and can earn up to Rs 80,000 working for 20 hours a week, according to
Sharma. Classes would be conducted at the teacher’s home/ tuition centre, so
Genius Labs would not have to invest in any real estate.
Students will be taught through projects and group activities that will
be beyond the school syllabus, with the use of a curriculum and technology
tools developed by Genius Learning Lab.
Genius Micro Schools is inspired by Silicon Valley-based Altschool that
uses independent teachers, technology tools and research to offer a personalized
learning experience for school children. Altschool had raised $100 million from
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others.
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