Enrolling 4-14 years old!
After teaching high school math for 10 years and seeing our public education system as a high school and middle school Principal and tech director for 3 years, I realized the importance of a better learning environment for my children and all children. I know my kids would be successful in our public schools, but I also know that the public school system can't help my students reach their full potential. I am so glad I followed my inner guidance to leave public education, be an entrepreneur, learn that life experience is the only real teacher, and find myself on my own Hero's journey.
That is why I am excited to introduce the Bozeman Innovation Academy. We are creating a learning environment that truly allows learners to use and appreciate their innate gifts, passions, and talents to find their life's calling and change the world. We talk about heroes and being on a hero's journey so our learners can build strong moral values and character. We are creating a tribe of learners, ran by the learners. Our tribe's values are of excellence and accountability. Imagine your child thriving in an environment like ours! I know I get excited thinking about the people my kids are going to grow into as they master their own journeys and find their callings.
We really believe in the power of family, and your family will learn to embark on your own journey together as well. Maybe joining our Acton Academy is just what your family needs. If I am strumming your heartstrings, consider our Bozeman Innovation Academy. It is life changing.
We hope you become part of our story and mission to help each child find a calling and change the world.
Bozeman Innovation Academy is located at 2005 Gilkerson Dr Suite D, Bozeman, MT, 59718.
Growing up I was blessed to have a gifted educator as role model, my mom. I really started learning leadership skills in 5th grade when I volunteered to help students in my mom's 3rd grade class. In high school, I found myself thriving as a mentor in Big Brothers Big Sisters. After attending U of M as a member of the track as a field team and decathlete, I graduated with my degree to teach Science and began subbing to get my foot in the door for local schools. Through this experience, I realized that the public school environment wasn't where I was going to make my impact as an educator. Since this time, I have been educating our local youth as a Bridger ski instructor, substitute teacher, and as well as a private tutor.
All that experience has led me to discover Acton, a learning environment that truly helps learners find their passion and turn it into a career. Our entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with a purpose, will lead our learners to discover new businesses, inventions, and cures that will make a positive impact on this world.
If you're like me, realizing that the public school model isn't where dream are realized and achieved, then please consider the Bozeman Innovation Academy. We promise to treat your child as a hero with an unlimited potential so they can discover their purpose and make a positive impact.
Schedule a meeting and let's chat about you and your hero.
Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a Socratic Guide. As an entrepreneur, he founded his first company at age 16 and went on to found or co-found seven successful businesses. As a Socratic teacher at the University of Texas, Jeff’s students five times voted him the school’s Outstanding Teacher and Businessweek named him one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in America.
Jeff went on to co-found the Acton School of Business, an MBA program perennially ranked by the Princeton Review among the best in the nation. In 2012 The Economist honored him as one of the top fifteen Business School professors in the world.
Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he served for over twenty years on the school’s governing committees. He was a longtime director of the Philanthropy Roundtable and National Review magazine and one of the youngest members ever elected to the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
Laura lived on both US coasts and in between as a child, then settled into Vanderbilt University for her undergraduate studies in the College of Arts and Science. After being awarded the highly competitive Walter Wattles Fellowship at Lloyd’s of London, Laura worked in the aviation insurance industry in New York City.
Deciding to follow her calling into the world of education, Laura returned to Nashville and earned her Master of Education at Peabody College. This led her to her work at the Oklahoma Arts Institute, creating fine arts education programs for teachers and talented high school students.
Laura married Jeff Sandefer and is the happy mother of Sam and Charlie and step-mother to Taite. It is the inspiration of these children that led Laura and Jeff to co-found Acton Academy.
Her greatest hero is her mother who was a Master Teacher. Her wisest mentor is her father who sent her off to college with two words of advice: "Be curious."
Begin a Hero’s Journey,
Discover precious gifts and a commitment to mastery.
Become a curious, independent, life-long learner.
Embrace the forging of a strong character.
Cherish the arts, the physical world, and the mysteries of life.
Treasure economic, political, and religious freedom.
We believe each person has a gift that can change the world in a profound way;
We believe in learning to learn, learning to do, and learning to be.
We believe in a closely connected family of life-long learners.
We believe in economic, political, and religious freedom.
