Alexa Martinez’s interests cannot be put into a neat box. The Math and Statistics Major at Coastal Carolina University recently won second place in a school-wide competition for her essay on how the “banking model” of education, coined by Brazilian thinker Paulo Freire, impedes class consciousness— an idea that is spelled out in the popular book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I sat down with the Sora alum to see what she’s up to now, how Math & Statistics relate to the humanities, and how Sora prepared her for college.
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What is democratic education? Aria, Simon, and John discuss their experiences attending a school that embraces this philosophy onstage at SXSW EDU in Austin, Texas.
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Creating something new is hard. Not only do you have to recognize a problem, but you need to persevere through the problem solving process which can take many rounds of iteration and is usually frustrating. At Sora, we believe that encouraging curiosity and interdisciplinary thinking makes for a stronger creative process overall. The capacity for […]
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At Sora, celebration — of learning, knowledge, research, growth — is part of our ethos. Because project-based learning is integral to our school, our students always have interesting work to share. The Sora Student Showcase is an event that allows us to come together and celebrate what students are learning.
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Our founders sat down with Tyisha Fernandes (WSB Channel 2 in Atlanta) for an interview on the future of virtual school.
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Sora Schools was founded by Wesley Samples, Indra Sofian, and Garrett Smiley, who met while attending Georgia Tech. Their progressive virtual education platform was conceived pre-COVID, which has only intensified the nationwide need for new innovative educational options. Sora Schools has reached its funding goal with the help of lead investor Hemant Teneja of General […]
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