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About Drew School
Shape the future of education everywhere.
Founded by Brian Holtz, co-founder of Alpha School and designer of the 2HourLearning curriculum, in partnership with Drew University, Drew School brings the proven, revolutionary model of personalized education to a bold new frontier, right here.
The last thing North Jersey needs is another 'pretty good' private school.
So we're building a student experience around the foundational skills that matter today.
At Drew, students don't fit into old systems. They build new ones. If you believe your child was born to lead, create, innovate, and inspire, you've found your home.
Now accepting applications for founding families in grades 1-7.
Founding Family Tuition: $30,000 annually
Starting right here in Madison, New Jersey.
Fall 2026, Drew School launches, and we're inviting just 10 - 12 founding families to help build something extraordinary.
Our students don’t fit into old systems. They build new ones.
Our students don’t fit into old systems. They build new ones.
At Drew, curiosity must outrank rigid order, deeper learning matters, and teachers should be mentors, not taskmasters.
At Drew, curiosity must outrank rigid order, deeper learning matters, and teachers should be mentors, not taskmasters.
Failure is a powerful teacher.
Failure is a powerful teacher.
Memorization is outdated in the age of AI.
Memorization is outdated in the age of AI.
More homework doesn't create better students - deeper learning does.
More homework doesn't create better students - deeper learning does.
Curiosity must outrank rigid order.
Curiosity must outrank rigid order.
Innovation in education isn't optional anymore.
Innovation in education isn't optional anymore.
Lifelong purpose can start young.
Lifelong purpose can start young.
Teachers should be mentors, not taskmasters.
Teachers should be mentors, not taskmasters.
Our experts & facilitators
Drew School brings together experts across key disciplines to guide students through real-world practice, professional standards, and applied expertise.
Natasha Rao
Author & Professor
An award-winning author whose debut collection Latitude won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Ada Limón. Her work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and other major publications. She holds degrees from Brown University and New York University and teaches poetry at Drew University.Her involvement ensures students develop writing skills grounded in professional standards, critical thinking, and real-world communication.
Natasha Rao
Author & Professor
An award-winning author whose debut collection Latitude won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Ada Limón. Her work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and other major publications. She holds degrees from Brown University and New York University and teaches poetry at Drew University.Her involvement ensures students develop writing skills grounded in professional standards, critical thinking, and real-world communication.
Jedidiah Dore
Artist & Professor of Illustration
An artist and professor of illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York City. His work includes large-scale public murals in New York City and commissioned projects connected to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Artemis I mission. His work has been featured in major publications including British GQ and PBS. His involvement brings a design-driven, observational, real-world approach to visual learning, helping students develop creativity, spatial reasoning, and confidence.
Jedidiah Dore
Artist & Professor of Illustration
An artist and professor of illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York City. His work includes large-scale public murals in New York City and commissioned projects connected to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Artemis I mission. His work has been featured in major publications including British GQ and PBS. His involvement brings a design-driven, observational, real-world approach to visual learning, helping students develop creativity, spatial reasoning, and confidence.
David Gatchell
Entrepreneur & Author
An entrepreneur, author, and financial literacy innovator. He is the founder of Four Gifts Publishing and Prospera Literacy, and the author of The Financial Empowerment Handbook and Steps to Prosperity. His involvement ensures students develop practical financial skills, decision-making ability, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
David Gatchell
Entrepreneur & Author
An entrepreneur, author, and financial literacy innovator. He is the founder of Four Gifts Publishing and Prospera Literacy, and the author of The Financial Empowerment Handbook and Steps to Prosperity. His involvement ensures students develop practical financial skills, decision-making ability, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Patrick Dolan
Professor of Psychology
A professor whose courses span psychology, cognition, cognitive illusions, social media psychology, embracing later life, and international cinema. He is leading The World Around Me - an intergenerational pathway delivered partly on site at an advanced aging community, where Drew students learn directly from older adults through interviews, narrative projects, and shared cognitive experiments. His involvement brings academic depth in psychology, cognition, and human development, and frames storytelling as a discipline of empathy, listening, and identity.
Patrick Dolan
Professor of Psychology
A professor whose courses span psychology, cognition, cognitive illusions, social media psychology, embracing later life, and international cinema. He is leading The World Around Me - an intergenerational pathway delivered partly on site at an advanced aging community, where Drew students learn directly from older adults through interviews, narrative projects, and shared cognitive experiments. His involvement brings academic depth in psychology, cognition, and human development, and frames storytelling as a discipline of empathy, listening, and identity.
Patrick Dolan
Professor of Psychology
A professor whose courses span psychology, cognition, cognitive illusions, social media psychology, embracing later life, and international cinema. He is leading The World Around Me - an intergenerational pathway delivered partly on site at an advanced aging community, where Drew students learn directly from older adults through interviews, narrative projects, and shared cognitive experiments. His involvement brings academic depth in psychology, cognition, and human development, and frames storytelling as a discipline of empathy, listening, and identity.
Adam Michlin
Computer Science Educator
Adam Michlin holds an MS in Computer Science with an emphasis on Cybersecurity from Monmouth University and a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. He brings over two decades of experience teaching Computer Science at the high school level, with additional experience as a reader, grader, tutor, and professor of Computer Science at the collegiate level, and as a Director of Technology. His specialties include offensive and defensive IT and Computer Science Cybersecurity, Computer Architecture, Computer History, and K–12 Computer Science Education. He is responsible for the K–12 Computer Science Teaching Credential program. At Drew School he is designing the K–8 Computer Science progression and the high school trajectory it feeds into, with AI integration baked into every course, not bolted on.
Adam Michlin
Computer Science Educator
Adam Michlin holds an MS in Computer Science with an emphasis on Cybersecurity from Monmouth University and a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. He brings over two decades of experience teaching Computer Science at the high school level, with additional experience as a reader, grader, tutor, and professor of Computer Science at the collegiate level, and as a Director of Technology. His specialties include offensive and defensive IT and Computer Science Cybersecurity, Computer Architecture, Computer History, and K–12 Computer Science Education. He is responsible for the K–12 Computer Science Teaching Credential program. At Drew School he is designing the K–8 Computer Science progression and the high school trajectory it feeds into, with AI integration baked into every course, not bolted on.
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