Founder & CEO, Ali Kaufman: "We’re dealing with parents and kids, not customers and coffee.” That’s what I told the South Florida Business Journal for its recent article on the growth of hybrid education. I’ve spent more than two decades rethinking how education can work. I'm encouraged that...
In 2004, Ali Kaufman founded Space of Mind as a modern schoolhouse and educational services company that celebrates individuality and prepares students for real life. But over the next two decades, she saw a perfect storm emerging for young adults....
William has lost 30 pounds and is no longer diabetic. He has learned the life skills needed to manage himself. Jack had a paid internship at Tesla that turned into a full time job. Andrew was accepted into welding school and had a successful first...
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....
A new program for young adults in Delray Beach is helping them bridge the gap between school and adulthood. Space of Mind’s Launch Pad program trains them in the essential skills they need as they approach the next phase of their lives. ...
A Boca Raton man is among the first participants in a new Delray Beach–based program designed to help young adults navigate life after school. William Zucker of Boca Raton has joined Launch Pad, a residential program recently introduced by Space of Mind and its Community...
Space of Mind and its Community Classroom Project have introduced a new residential program, Launch Pad, to help young adults bridge the gap between academic life and adulthood....
Community Classroom Kitchen joined forces with South Florida’s culinary heavyweights and the Palm Beach County School District to build a pilot hospitality program that helps young food lovers turn passion into skill - and skill into real opportunity....
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...