SchoolHack Solutions of Bristol, Vermont has announced the addition of Gary Obermeyer to its team of education professionals developing and marketing LiFT™ - the company’s student-centered, personalized learning platform.
“We are excited to have Gary’s expertise and creativity on our team” says David Lipkin, CEO of SchoolHack Solutions. “Gary brings years of experience supporting school improvement and understands the needs of schools as they shift to competency based education and build increased capacity for personalized learning.”
Obermeyer’s perspective on education includes 16 years as a classroom teacher while also serving in a series of appointed and elected leadership positions at the local, state, and national level of the National Education Association (from 1980-86 as a member of the Executive Committee). Since 1986, he has worked as a school change consultant with Learning Options - engaged in designing, developing, and delivering online networking tools and strategies aimed at building capacity for students, teachers, and parents to co-create learner-centered and community-connected schools.
“I am thrilled with the timing of this opportunity,” says Obermeyer, “the approach that SchoolHack has taken - putting the passions and interests of students at the center of the lesson planning process - is an essential starting point for personalized learning. I’ve explored many software platforms promoted as the answer to personalized, competency-based learning and have found LiFT to be in a class by itself and have found LiFT to be in a class by itself, supporting whole systems. In particular, I can easily see how LiFT enables teachers and administrators to design/track professional learning goals and maintain portfolios for relicensure, reflection, and growth.
Obermeyer lives in Portland, Oregon, and will work with the Schoolhack team to bring this exciting software to schools and organizations throughout the Northwest.
SchoolHack Solutions is a Vermont-based company building software to provide authentic personalized learning for all students. Founded by educators, SchoolHack works with students, districts, teachers, and organizations to create a learning environment where all learning, both in and out of the classroom, counts towards personal and academic success.