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Build a school students love 

Guide School helps entrepreneurial educators become Guides and build AI-powered learning environments where students learn more, love school, and build an extraordinary life.

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What is a Guide?

Guiding is the future of the teaching profession

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Teacher

Guide

For generations, teachers have shouldered an impossible responsibility: delivering instruction, managing behavior, building relationships, differentiating lessons, tracking progress, and inspiring students—all at the same time.

As AI takes over more of the instructional workload, educators can focus on the work humans do best.

The future teacher is a Guide.

Instructor

Coach

Lecturer

Experience designer

Behavior manager

Culture builder

Content expert

Learning architect

Technology delivers more instruction so people can deliver more humanity.

You need both the engine and the Guides

Education technology without human Guides, routines, and culture leads to unmotivated students.

Guides without great systems spend their time fighting logistics.

Guide School equips you with the best of both.

Yin Yang symbol with AI-POWERED ACADEMIC ENGINE on the Yin and HUMAN GUIDES on the Yang

Affordable

Launch a Guide-model school without the overhead of a traditional institution.

Accelerated

Students master core academic subjects at 2X+ speed through personalized learning systems.

Flexible

Works in classrooms, microschools, co-ops, districts, homeschool collaboratives, and beyond.

Am I a fit?

Our partners look something like this

We supply tools that plug into a variety of microschool and classroom flavors. Most of our partners resemble one of these varieties:

This timeline of a Full-Day Model begins with a Launch at 8:30am, Core Skills for the morning, Projects for the afternoon, and a Close at 3:30pm
This timeline of a Half-Day Model begins with a 15-minute Launch, then 2 hours for Core Skills, then 30 minutes of fun as a reward for Core Skills progress, and then a 15-minute close
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We supply your dream school

Start-here guide course

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Academic operating system

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Live guide certification

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Guide builder community

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worldwide impact

List of countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Malaysia, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, UAE, UK, US

A solution for global learning

Guide School is part of a larger movement: bringing student-driven, mastery-based education to every child. From Dripping Springs to Malawi to Indonesia, the vision is the same — give learners the tools to unlock their genius, and watch young humans flourish.

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Do you have a teacher or a guide mindset?

Take this quiz to see if you're better suited to work in a conventional classroom or as a Guide.

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The truth about computers in K-12 classrooms

Phones and laptops in school can lead to worse results. Grab this research to learn why.

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How to tour a school in 2026: Your personal checklist

Bring along this list of what to look for when you tour a school as a parent, teacher, or school leader  

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Supplying your dream school

Hi, I'm Heather Clayton Staker, founder of Guide School. We supply tools for mastery-based, advanced microschooling anywhere on Earth. We'd love to work with you!

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