Inside Schools | Stories of how schools think, build, and evolve

Inside Schools

Stories of how schools think, build, and evolve

Read by 400,000 educators and school leaders worldwide

Over the last ten years, I've visited more than 100 schools and worked closely with thousands more around the world. Many of them have changed how I think about what a school can be.

That's why I'm starting Inside Schools, where every month I will share a story from a school that has made a design choice worth understanding. The goal is simple: to share real examples of how schools are thinking, building, and evolving. 

I hope these stories inspire you the way they've inspired me!

Deepanshu Arora
Co-founder & CEO, Toddle

10 March 2026 One Stone School

The school where students decide strategy and budgets

Most schools let students weigh in. One Stone School in Boise, Idaho gave them two-thirds of the board seats. Students interview every hire, negotiate the executive director's salary, and in 2022, voted to start charging tuition at a school that had always been free. This isn't student government. This is what student agency looks like when it's built into the structure of an institution.
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