Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2021 · No. 25

Re-imagining the Student of the Future

Malvika Bhagwat

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When you're pitching to the middle, to just an average person, there is no person that's that average person. So you're pitching to almost nobody.

Malvika Bhagwat

About this episode

Malvika Bhagwat grew up in India in a school that reshuffled students every three months by test scores. After 10th grade she locked herself away for two weeks until her parents moved her to an IB school, where choice and close relationships with teachers changed her path. Now a partner leading outcomes work at an education venture firm, she argues that teaching to the average reaches almost no one, and that today's learners include working parents and midcareer professionals.

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