Educational organization seeks strategic, commercial Buy-in Manager

The organization develops and publishes innovative educational concepts, teaching materials and digital learning environments for primary education. It also provides training, study days, webinars and coaching programs for teachers and school teams. A minority share transaction (up to 49%) is preferred.

Business Activities
Main products and services include:

• Thematic teaching materials for grades 1-8.
• Digital learning environment and educational software (PaaS).
• Learning lines for language, world orientation and citizenship
• Professionalization for teachers and school leaders (trainings, study days and webinars)
• Coaching and mentoring of schools
• Educational games, workbooks and supplementary materials
• Support for curriculum development and thematic education

Market and Customers
The company focuses on all elementary school in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking schools in Belgium (Flanders).

Details
The method offers time savings through integrated case subjects and ready-made teaching packages with short preparation time. The concept supports appropriate education, cross-group working on themes, cooperative learning and context-rich learning with parental and environmental involvement. In addition, there is integration of 21st-century skills, Science & Technology and computational thinking, with scientific underpinning through knowledge exchange and cooperation with a university, among others.

Employees
The organization consists of 6 employees.

The organization/location.
The business is located in a leased location.

Opportunities/growth prospects.
There are about 6,900 elementary school in the Netherlands and about 2,700 in Flanders. The organization currently has about 5% market share in the Netherlands for world exploration; it is lower for other components. Growth is expected through further rollout in the Netherlands and Flanders and through expansion of the offering, including the development of a math method.

Other information
The ambition is to grow into a full curriculum for children aged 0-12 and become a standard method in the Netherlands. Name recognition is still limited, while the proposition responds to needs such as more space in the schedule, relief of workload and support for teacher shortage, with the goal of better learning outcomes. The organization is looking for an active investor with scaling experience (preferably in education); in case of further interest an introduction to the management team can be scheduled.