In late 2020 in the middle of COVID, our CEO and Co-founder Dr. Kevin Berkopes started calling school leaders in response to the growing number of math teacher vacancies across Indiana. The question was simple, "do you want help filling your positions?", but the problem was both complicated and complex. What started as a simple question turned into a journey of solving challenging problems as the onion was peeled back. In order to sufficiently support schools, we would eventually need to develop on-the-job pathways to credentials.
Fast forward to 2025, we have added over 20 licensed math teachers in Indiana and have started to deliver our solution in outside states. While mathematics will always be the backbone of our expertise, we came to realize that in order to be a strategic value for districts, we have to support across the K-12 subject areas. Today we aim to be a strategic solution for districts who want to cultivate their own teaching workforce.
We Build for Working Educators
There is little consensus in education research but one area of agreement is that teachers are the most influential factor in the classroom. Contrary to conventional thinking, teaching apprenticeship in today's context is not solely about getting teachers into the classroom sooner. The reality is the teaching pipeline has seen dramatic shifts since 2010 with significantly less people choosing to become a teachers through traditional pathways, which has led to higher number of underprepared teachers in the classroom. Schools and districts need ways of transmitting teaching knowledge and apprenticeship is a response to this reality.
“Middle school students, taught by a six-year-experienced teacher in the previous year, received math instruction from a first-year MathTrack-trained teacher. Higher growth was seen in students who started below the 40th percentile in achievement, suggesting a positive trajectory for MathTrack participants despite the notable experience gap between the two teachers.”
—Exploratory Examination of Student Achievement by Johns Hopkins
