The Company
Teachstone is a leading education company dedicated to strengthening the impact of teacher-student interactions with innovative tools and services. Grounded in their field-leading service to the 0-5 market, they plan expansions into the K-12 sector and evolution into a tech-enabled services company.
Developed through years of research, Teachstone’s tools and systems — including the groundbreaking CLASS observation tool that measures teacher-student interactions — drive learning and lifelong achievement. Teachstone’s solutions help organizations conduct classroom observations and deliver professional development that improves teachers’ interactions with students, creating effective learning opportunities. Their online subscription service, myTeachstone, simplifies CLASS implementation by combining observation data with a robust library of CLASS resources and professional development.
At Teachstone, everything focuses on improving teachers’ interactions with their students. They train coaches and observers, build and deliver online support programs, and design professional development – all grounded in one proven fact: the interactions teachers have with students have a lasting impact on their academic and developmental success. By helping educators describe, measure and improve their interactions and relationships with students, Teachstone is transforming education nationwide, one interaction at a time.
The Opportunity
Teachstone seeks an experienced and dynamic Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to succeed their co-founder and lead the company forward into a scaled, tech-enabled education solution-provider. The ideal candidate is highly strategic, with a record of success in scaling businesses, particularly in combining education and technology. This individual will be a proven leader in technology or education, with a deep understanding of industry trends and a passion for making a positive impact on students and educators. They will be responsible for driving the company’s ambitious growth goals while maintaining and enhancing their mission-driven culture.
Primary responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a strategic vision that capitalizes on Teachstone’s success in early childhood education and drives growth in the K-12 market.
- Integrate technology into services, positioning Teachstone as a leader in tech-enabled education solutions.
- Identify and capitalize on new business opportunities and emerging trends
- Integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into long-term strategy to ensure educators have the skills to ensure all children reach their full potential
- Operational Excellence: Optimize operations for scalability and efficiency, ensuring that increasing demand is met while maintaining the highest standards of quality and impact.
- Manage and mentor the Officer team to foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, equity, and innovation.
- Cultural Stewardship: Build upon Teachstone’s mission-driven culture, fostering an environment that supports innovation, collaboration, and equity. Continue to drive dedication to improving educational outcomes.
- Model and foster a commitment to DEI, leading an inclusive, and high-performing culture internally and externally
- Customer Focus: Lead with a customer-centric approach, understanding the needs of educators, students, and administrators, and driving the development of solutions that address their challenges and build upon their assets.
- Financial Management: Steward the company’s financial health, ensuring sustainable growth and profitability while making strategic investments in future opportunities.
- Product and Technology Oversight: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence in product development and delivery.
- Ensure alignment of product development with market needs and customer feedback, drive innovation and cutting-edge technology solutions.
- Board and Governance: Collaborate with the board to refine strategic direction and implement governance practices that ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
Ideal Candidate
You are a transformational leader of a K12 education company, preferably with early education experience. You have a track record of successful executive leadership, P&L management, revenue growth, operational excellence, and program improvement/expansion. Moreover, you skilfully lead all members of an organization, inspiring them to scale a company’s solutions, and driving for results than ensure all educators benefit from Teachstone’s solutions.
You should have the following experiences and skill sets:
- Education Sector Expertise: Deep understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and trends in Early Childhood and K-12 education, including academic achievement, student support services, and professional development for teachers.
- M&A: Experience in leading the acquisition and integration of strategic tuck-ins as well as transformative acquisitions, preferably in the education sector.
- Go-to-Market Strategist: Creator and driver of successful GTM strategies that increased impact, and revenue of EdTech products
- Business Acumen: Strong business and financial acumen, with a demonstrated ability to develop sustainable revenue streams, manage budgets, and drive organizational growth.
- Operations Excellence: Track record of managing multi-site services across geographies
- Impact Orientation: A genuine passion for making a positive impact on students’ academic, social-emotional, and behavioral development, along with a commitment to equity and educational access
- Technology use in education: A developed perspective on the selection, invention, and implementation of technological advances that drive efficiencies, impacts, and scale in the education sector.
Learn More
The Knowledge Leaders search process is thorough and may include: a written assessment, multiple interviews (recorded and in person), background and social media checks, employment and education verifications, a drug screen, and professional reference checking. After all, our mission is to transform education by recruiting the best world leaders.
Submit your resume to Peggy Williams at Knowledge Leaders.
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