What might happen if you take the learning culture that fuels our fastest growing high technology companies and used that culture to re-imagine the educational experience in a school district?
It started as an experiment. We called it the Dayton Experiment.
In 2015, under the banner of Innovate Oregon, I embarked on this adventure in Dayton Oregon, a rural community in Yamhill County. Dayton is a town of 2,500 people where more than two-thirds of its students live near the poverty line. It is also a multicultural community, about a third of its students are Latinx.