Although his wife remained in the classroom, the OnCourse team retains a high concentration of school staff members (at least 33%) at all times. Today, Chris Contini remains the company’s Chief Executive Officer and co-founder.
Their idea became OnCourse Systems for Education, which has given millions of hours back to school staff by making daily tasks easier, from writing lesson plans, to streamlining complex state reports, to authoring tech-enhanced assessments. It was clear to the teacher and her husband Chris that schools would need help making space to do their best and most important work. This happened at the same moment that a tide of paperwork was rising in every K-12 school district. How it would transform the way people worked forever. How people were sharing documents online with the click of a button. Later that night, the teacher and her husband talked about an emerging phenomenon called cloud computing. The teacher watched as her supervisor crammed it into a bag with a dozen other plan books, hauled the pack over her shoulder, and headed home to jot feedback into each one.
In 2001, a 3rd grade teacher handed a neatly-tabbed lesson plan binder to her principal.
