Ko School, An Incubator For Middle Schoolers?

A friend in Dallas told me about an alternative educational institution he recently learned about, Ko School, located in Austin, TX. The school bills itself as “focused on ensuring that you have the skills, habits, knowledge, and attitudes to thrive in a rapidly changing world” and appears to provide students with both a standard STEM education as well as an entrepreneurship curriculum centered on “the three pillars of Authentic Leadership, Personal Development, and Autodidacticism”.

One of the founders has given a few TED Talks, here is a recent one:

 

I don’t know much more about it than this at present. I plan to do more research and I am making a note here for future reference.