Founders Message:

Greetings and welcome to Intaspordia^sm!

Having journeyed in education all my life, first as a student; then as a High School Teacher; acquiring my Masters and Ph.D; becoming a University Lecturer in the Literature Department at Kenyatta University; becoming the Chairman of that Department; becoming Dean; and ultimately becoming Professor, and watching the world change unrecognizably through this journey, I have always been disturbed by how slowly schools and learning institutions in general were adapting to the new modern world. My concern turned into dismay when I attended an International Education Technology Conference in Lusaka Zambia in 2008. I was shocked to see how far the world had advanced in terms of Ed-Tech. In 2008! The advances since then are unthinkable and most of the technologies and applications I saw in 2008 are now obsolete. Our schools have not moved an inch, yet!

It is said that if someone from the 18th Century rose from the dead, the only contemporary institution they would readily recognise is the school

School in the 18th Century

School Today

Contemplating the problems of our school system that is stuck in the past, is a familiar and anxious engagement with most modern parents. They feel that their children are capable of much more given the right environment. Yet most schools are more of the same, analogue, still engaged in pursuit of academic performance in numeracy and literacy and most claims to “wholistic education” that develops the “whole” child are at best hype and in-fact tokenistic. This contemplation has been equally my portion as a modern parent and an educational practitioner.

I could have stayed in the University to write papers about it and attend more conferences but I felt that I needed to “do” something. I thought that in order to modernize schooling, we needed to rethink and redesign our schools and pedagogy by revisiting and leveraging on several basics and apparent realities:

I have been on this transformative quest since the Lusaka Conference and after the long and arduous if not perilous struggles associated with shifting paradigms, innovation and entrepreneurship, (this is a story for another day!), I have come up with Intaspordia^sm. The Academy is my offering to discerning modern parents who are looking for something different and who concur with me on the 4 basics stated above. Established on an ethos of modernization and exploration and anchored on the pillars of technology and play, Intaspordia^sm is also an offering to modern kids growing up in a very challenging modern world. I appreciate that they desperately need a partner to help them navigate their world by exploring their abilities and potential to the fullest. They will need such a partner in order to understand and engage their ever changing digital world in which they will have to live and even thrive in. Intaspordia^sm is that partner.

I am honored to personally welcome you and your child(ren)to the unique and modern Intaspordia^sm experience. Your interest in The Academy is a milestone for me personally, since The Academy’s pedagogical ecosystem and competency based programs are an institutionalized coalescing of my experience, engagement and investment as an academic and a progressive if not revisionist educationist and educational entrepreneur. It’s an ecosystem I have painstakingly evolved and designed as a pragmatic and material expression of my commitment to transformation and modernization of how the 21st Century generations and beyond will learn. Intaspordia^sm represents my life’s work and vision and it’s a unique educational ecosystem and experience I am only too glad to offer to and share with you and your kid(s)!