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Carlo Schmidt

Director of Product at Newsela

Carlo leads product development for Formative, Newsela’s assessment and instruction product. He began his career in assessment in the KIPP Network of charter schools, where he worked with school leaders across multiple networks on the systems they used implementing a balanced assessment system and ensuring that educators had access to the data they needed. After KIPP, he jumped into the edtech world to work with districts like DPSK12 and Fulton County on their implementation of assessment products. He eventually made is way in to product out of a desire to build better and better tools that support students, teachers, and admins and providing actionable, real time, insights to all.