Social Systems Architect focused on education, organizations, and cities. Bio: Tory is absolutely passionate about revolutionizing our education system for the 21st century. He founded BeSomeone to address the teen mental health and academic disengagement crisis through free peer-to-peer life coaching. He previously launched the BeSomeone mobile app - an 'Instagram of project-based learning' where students can show off their work, track their growth, and promote their favorites to be incorporated into the curriculum. He founded Microschool Revolution after winning startup funding from the "shark tank" pitch competition at EDventure 2017. Microschool Revolution connected edupreneurs with impact-investment seed loans to start and grow high-quality, low-cost private microschools in churches and elsewhere with innovative approaches built around challenging project-based learning, personalized mastery-based eLearning, social-emotional character development, and community engagement to develop real-world 21st-century skills like entrepreneurship, design thinking, and collaborative problem-solving. He also collaborated closely with Catherine Fraise of Workspace Education to develop a platform to help replicate their innovative prototype of a K-12 “colearning community” which houses multiple microschool models under one roof. Tory co-founded the Acton Academy Champions microschool following the Acton Academy model. He also co-founded the previous iteration of Microschool Revolution, Coached Schooling, which was backed by the Rice University Owlspark accelerator program and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to create a high-tech network of affordable private schools (<$10/day) combining the best elements of eLearning, home and traditional schooling to reinvent the one-room schoolhouse for the 21st century. Tory is a McKinsey consulting alum, TEDx speaker, HBR/McKinsey Management Innovation M-Prize winner, and holds both an MBA and BSEE from Rice University. In his spare time, he writes his long-running Houston Strategies blog and writes and speaks as a Founding Senior Fellow with the Urban Reform Institute - A Center for Opportunity Urbanism.
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