This is a post describing a teacher's experiences "opening a brand new micro-school and to work on technology tools that were intended to personalize my students' learning." It was AltSchool, the Silicon Valley startup where Emerich worked for three years, leaving last June. The company changed course last year from running schools to selling software. Emerich suggests a possible reason for the change in course: "It was isolating with every child working on something different; it was impersonal with kids learning basic math skills from Khan Academy; it was disembodied and disconnected." This is a good article, describing the experience at length and from a first-person perspective.
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