Pete Nystrom, Co-Founder
Pete is a seasoned startup executive with an unsurpassed passion for education. With two young children in school, he grew frustrated by not having a good sense of what was happening on a daily basis. He then left his job as Co-Founder and VP Engineering of Classy.org – which he grew from 4 to over 150 people – to focus on The School Day. A developer by trade, he also Co-Founded CaddySnack, a golf resort service app. As our CTO, Pete will drive the technological end of our LMS with a focus on development and enhancement. He’s supported by these two fellow execs:
Brian Nadeau, CEO/Co-Founder
Brian is a business development and client management veteran who worked in insitutional investor banking for nearly 20 years. His focus was the SaaS that clients used to track, value and analyze their multi-billion investment portfolios.In the late 1990’s-early 2000’s Brian and a small team built a successful onlilne consumer goods business as a side project. Careers and family lead to them selling that business, but the entrepreneurial spirit lived on in him until he decided to bring a passion for education to partner with Pete at The School Day, where he’ll set strategy, hire employees, and strategize future growth.
Molly Zielezinski, Board of Directors
As a former teacher and the mother of a young learner, she is deeply committed to identifying and interrogating innovative practices that support the development of critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and community within K-12 classrooms. Through this research agenda, Molly and her colleagues have identified the profound potential of design thinking as vehicle for authentic problem solving, one that promotes creative confidence and scaffolds empathy driven solution finding.
Molly also researches learning associated with digital technologies in K-12 classrooms, mapping how the features of digital tools interact with the myriad of other contextual factors at play in a learning environment and how these tools come to support or limit student success.
Kevin Willer, Advisor
Kevin Weatherman, Advisor
In addition, two of our BETA user teachers are serving as Advisors; Kelly Magaudda (San Diego-based teacher), and Olga Gusarovskaya (New Einsteins Academy Director).