Scaling Success
A national K–12 education and technology podcast uncovering how proven programs can be replicated and scaled.
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About the show
Scaling Success is a national K–12 education and technology podcast uncovering the people, partnerships, and proven practices behind programs that are working — and exploring how their success can be replicated and scaled. Jennifer Womble and Jacob Kantor bring together two sides of the K–12 innovation ecosystem: education leadership and edtech partnership. Scaling Success is grounded in a simple belief: some of the best solutions to education's biggest challenges already exist in our schools. We need better ways to find them, understand them, share them, and scale them.
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Meet the hosts
Jacob has spent 18+ years unlocking meaningful collaborations between EdTech innovators and school district leaders. He guides EdTech companies — new ventures and established names like Stride K12, aiEDU, Outlier (now Savvas), and Gladeo — past cold-outreach fatigue and into constructive, human-centered connections with the decision-makers who actually buy.
Most vendors fall short because they lead with product pitches. Jacob flips that approach, starting with empathy, preparation, and curiosity to build trust and tailor solutions to each district's pressures and needs. Strategic outreach becomes authentic partnership.
He has personally delivered about $50M in sales across McGraw Hill, C2 Education, Revolution Prep, Collegewise, Varsity Tutors, and Spark Education, earning a reputation as a top EdTech sales leader.
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