The Frontier Class · Research Grant & Programme

Making great educators irreplaceable.

The Frontier Class is a nomination-only cohort for educators at the cutting edge of teaching and learning with AI. Join a community of educators, leaders and researchers re-imagining the student experience.

Nominations close 30 June

Frontier educators come from the world's best schools

The community

The Frontier Class

There is a growing community of educators who believe in teaching at the frontier with AI — and that the work of this moment is making teachers more irreplaceable.

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Nominated

You were nominated.

Somebody who knows the work pointed at you and said: this person is shaping what teaching can be. That's how you got here. Five hundred educators across the world are in this circle with you — the people we'll be building alongside, learning from, and pointing to when the conversation turns to what good teaching looks like now.

Community perks

Mindjoy's Educator Agent
AI Literacy courses for your school
Personalised AI Readiness & Rollout Plan

100

Shortlisted

You're on the wall.

One hundred educators whose practice, voice, or thinking we want the rest of the field to see — because they're obsessed with the student experience. Your name and school live on the Frontier Class Wall as a way to celebrate the work being done, by people like you. You'll sit in invite-only conversations with the educators redefining the field.

Community perks

Everything Nominated educators get
Live panels with leading global educators
Frontier Class community events
Public recognition on the Wall of Fame

The Inner Circle

You're in the room where it's figured out.

Fifty educators — the ones we're building the future of teaching with, not for. You'll run live experiments in your own classroom, get a research grant to fund the work, and sit shoulder-to-shoulder with peers who are answering the same questions you are: What does great teaching look like in the age of AI? What does it mean to be irreplaceable? This isn't a programme you complete. It's a cohort you join.

Community perks

Everything Shortlisted educators get
$150 research grant for applied teaching-and-learning research
Ongoing Mindjoy access
Hands-on workshops with leading educators
Live experiments and peer research sessions
Bespoke school integration support
Peer network of the world's fifty Frontier educators

Who it's for

The educators already in the work.

We're looking for the ones their colleagues quietly copy. The ones their students remember ten years later. The ones who saw AI coming and decided to lead instead of hide.

You're who we're looking for if:

You've built something — a tutor, a workflow, an awesome simulation or experience — with AI in your own classroom.
Your students show up differently because of it, and you're focused on the ethos and student values.
You're tired of being told AI will replace you, and you want a room of peers who know it won't — but believe a teacher's role looks very different in the future.

From the founder

Incredible educators are change agents.

I started Mindjoy because of a study that's haunted me for years — and a question inside it that almost everyone has misread.

In 1984, Benjamin Bloom published a finding that one-on-one tutoring produces two standard deviations of learning improvement over a conventional classroom. The 50th percentile becoming the 98th. He called it the Two Sigma Problem.

Every technologist since has read that and heard: “Replace the classroom with AI tutors.”

But here's what they missed — and what you only notice if you've actually been a teacher: most people are social learners. The classroom isn't a bug. It's the mechanism. Students learn through discussion, through watching a peer figure something out, through making their thinking visible and being changed by what comes back.

“The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring.”
— Benjamin Bloom, 1984

Bloom's actual question — the title of the paper — was: “How do we make group instruction as effective as one-to-one tutoring?” Not how do we replace the group. How do we make it better, from the inside.

The answer is an educator who has the intelligence of a personal tutor about every student in the room, in real time. That's what Mindjoy builds for. Not AI that replaces the teacher. AI that makes the teacher the most powerful version of themselves they've ever been.

The Frontier Class is how we find the educators who already understand this — and fund them to build what comes next.

If that's you — or someone you know — put a name forward.

Gabi Immelman

CEO & Co-Founder, Mindjoy

The paper this started with

Bloom, 1984. Read it in full.

Title page of Benjamin Bloom's 1984 paper, The 2 Sigma Problem

Read the paper →

How it works

Nominations. Shortlisted. Selected.

Nominations

Open globally. Self-nominate or be nominated by a peer.

Shortlisted

Reviewed by the Mindjoy team. Selected for depth of practice and evidence of impact.

Selected

Cohort 1. Frontier Class educators. The programme begins.

Our tribe

Join our tribe of frontier educators

The educators who've already done this work — and what changed for them and their students.

Reclaiming Time for What Matters Most

“I used to feel I had to mark everything and provide feedback on every piece of work myself. Now, I have a helper. AI handles the heavy lifting, freeing me up to focus on what matters most.”

Claire Pattle

Thomas More College

Wall of fame

The 100 shortlisted educators

Selected from 500+ global nominations for depth of practice and evidence of impact. Names revealed once Cohort 1 is finalised — until then, this could be you.

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100 educators · Global perspectives — reimagining the future of teaching and learning

Want to know more?

Nominations close 30 June

Making great educators irreplaceable.

The Frontier Class

The educators already in the work.

Incredible educators are change agents.

Nominations. Shortlisted. Selected.

Join our tribe of frontier educators

The 100 shortlisted educators

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Can I nominate myself?

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