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Space of Mind went to SXSW EDU to make noise, but it didn’t take long to realize the noise AI is making was already deafening. This year, Artificial Intelligence wasn’t a side conversation or a futuristic thread tucked into a few panels. It was the...

Micro schools are emerging as one of the most talked-about innovations in education. In this conversation recorded during SXSW EDU, Clay de Souza speaks with Ali Kaufman, founder of Space of Mind, about the growing movement toward micro schools and alternative learning ecosystems....

I recently attended VELA’s annual conference (VELACon) in Washington, DC, a gathering of hundreds of microschool founders, researchers, policy experts, and education innovators. VELA’s President, Meredith Olson, opened the event with a reminder of the movement’s rapid growth: more than 4,500 VELA founders are now...

Today's guest is Ali Kaufman, a longtime education entrepreneur who began offering tutoring services more than two decades ago and has since built a thriving hybrid homeschool program, Space of Mind, in Delray Beach, Florida that today serves dozens of K-12 students with both full-time...