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The Company Running Public Schools Like a Network - and Teaching Courage on Tuesdays
National Heritage Academies has spent three decades turning a Grand Rapids experiment into a 103-school operating system. Its pitch is consistency: centralized support, measurable academics and a character curriculum built around one virtue at a time.
Patrick Cook-Deegan
Patrick Cook-Deegan is the founder and CEO of Wayfinder, a K-12 curriculum company that teaches purpose, belonging, and durable skills to more than 1.5 million students across roughly 4,000 schools. A former All-American lacrosse player turned human-rights advocate in Burma, wilderness guide, and Stanford d.school fellow, he built Wayfinder out of five years teaching character development in an Oakland public high school. He named the company after the ancient Polynesian navigators who crossed oceans without instruments - his bet on how to redesign the American high school for the 21st century.