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How a Silicon Valley Microschool Actually Buys EdTech (with Joseph Dalton-Stark, Leadways)

From K12 EdTech Connection · Hosted by Peter Polygalov & John Faig

2026-06-18·1929

Episode summary

In this episode of K12 EdTech Connection: Most vendors pitching Leadways imagine they're pitching a district. They're not. Joseph Dalton-Stark is the founding principal of a microschool in Cupertino, CA, with roughly thirty students and families who work at Google and Apple down the road.

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Most vendors pitching Leadways imagine they're pitching a district. They're not. Joseph Dalton-Stark is the founding principal of a microschool in Cupertino, CA, with roughly thirty students and families who work at Google and Apple down the road. The site licenses, the five-year rollouts, the "we work with 400 districts" pitches: none of it fits,…