Sam Chaudhary – CEO and Co-Founder of ClassDojo

By Amanda Iadeluca on June 8, 2017

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ClassDojo

ClassDojo is a free program that connects parents, teachers and students through a website and app. It allows teachers to record, track, share and reward students’ behaviours in real-time. The objective is to help improve classroom culture through the encouragement of positive behaviours. It also allows teachers to target soft skills, such as focus and work ethic and it helps teach growth mindset and empathy. ClassDojo is used in over 30 countries by more than 3 million teachers. It recently added a Student Stories feature, which allows students to share stories from school in a similar way to Snapchat.  In 2011, it won the NBC Education Nation Innovation Award. The company was kick-started by raising money through ImagineK12. The founders maintain their refusal to make money through advertising and is looking at other venues for monetization, such as the creation of educational content and videos.

 

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Sam Chaudhary

Sam Chaudhary is the CEO and a co-founder of ClassDojo. He graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Economics. His first job was teaching economics in high school. Then, wanting to have a more scalable impact, he left teaching and joined the education group at McKinsey in London. He wanted to create a tool that would be useful to teachers and that wouldn’t focus on testing and grades. Prior to creating ClassDojo, he and his co-founder, Liam Don, cold-called thousands of teachers in the US and the UK to get a sense of how to construct an effective behaviour management tool. Then, using their teaching experience, research and teacher feedback, they created ClassDojo. The company has done very little marketing and has become successful mainly through word of mouth. ClassDojo has a small but experienced board and they also work closely with privacy advisors to uphold rigorous security standards.

I have used ClassDojo and believe it is an effective behaviour management tool. The founders, turned CEO and CTO, have maintained the quality and values they began with and add new features yearly to improve the efficacy of the app.

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11 Jun Posted on Sam Chaudhary – CEO and Co-Founder of ClassDojo

I feel as if ClassDojo is much different from other mobile learning ventures, in that they seek to tackle classroom workflows and the decimation of information. However, this is one of the few (if only?) programs that focuses on classroom management and behaviour, and to, as the website states "create a positive culture, give students a voice, and share moments with parents." To me, this is almost more important than the previously mentioned items, in that it focuses on social-emotional learning, which often gets left behind in online learning environments. Further, this speaks to the power of having a teacher-innovator who has recognized an opportunity to enhance their own classroom, but also to make a larger, global impact. Love it!

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justin bolivar @jbolivar

I feel as if ClassDojo is much different from other mobile learning ventures, in that they seek to tackle classroom workflows and the decimation of information. However, this is one of the few (if only?) programs that focuses on classroom management and behaviour, and to, as the website states "create a positive culture, give students a voice, and share moments with parents." To me, this is almost more important than the previously mentioned items, in that it focuses on social-emotional learning, which often gets left behind in online learning environments. Further, this speaks to the power of having a teacher-innovator who has recognized an opportunity to enhance their own classroom, but also to make a larger, global impact. Love it!

9 Jun Posted on Sam Chaudhary – CEO and Co-Founder of ClassDojo

Sam seems like a good role model to have. I know many people who once they have a job, would not want to leave that income source for fear of whether their next venture would fail. This seems like a brave thing to do. I don't personally know how much of a gamble this was for Sam Chaudhary, but I always love reading stories about people who, unhappy with their current situation, took the plunge and tried to do something that meant more to them.

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ali hodroje @ahodaire

Sam seems like a good role model to have. I know many people who once they have a job, would not want to leave that income source for fear of whether their next venture would fail. This seems like a brave thing to do. I don't personally know how much of a gamble this was for Sam Chaudhary, but I always love reading stories about people who, unhappy with their current situation, took the plunge and tried to do something that meant more to them.

8 Jun Posted on Sam Chaudhary – CEO and Co-Founder of ClassDojo

One of my favorite applications in the classroom is Dojo. The term is well known to all of my students give us a "Dojo Point" The cool aspects of the Dojo are many such as you, as a teacher use the application to set up a community that has the names of all of your class students. they can choose their avatar. I display this main page on the whiteboard where they can see their Dojo achievement. I use Dojo points for students not for academic reasons because I believe that Dojo is not a positive incentive to most of the students, but I use it on behaviors and following the essential agreement in the classroom. Finally, the best aspect about Dojo that it can be shared with the parents where they can see what is going on with their child at school.

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Ghassan @gassgass

One of my favorite applications in the classroom is Dojo. The term is well known to all of my students give us a "Dojo Point" The cool aspects of the Dojo are many such as you, as a teacher use the application to set up a community that has the names of all of your class students. they can choose their avatar. I display this main page on the whiteboard where they can see their Dojo achievement. I use Dojo points for students not for academic reasons because I believe that Dojo is not a positive incentive to most of the students, but I use it on behaviors and following the essential agreement in the classroom. Finally, the best aspect about Dojo that it can be shared with the parents where they can see what is going on with their child at school.

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