Tomis Parker

Tomis has spent his entire career in the alternative education world. He started as a teaching assistant in a Montessori classroom, then worked as a facilitator at a startup free school, organized summer camps for homeschoolers, and eventually co-founded the Agile Learning Centers model—a grassroots network of self-directed learning communities that has spread internationally.

For years, Tomis has served as Operations Director at ALC Mosaic, a (large) microschool in Charlotte, NC, where he experienced firsthand the documentation challenges that plagued programs in his sector.

All of this—the facilitation, the community-building, the product thinking, the decades of watching families struggle to communicate the value of learning environments that valued collaboration over control—led Tomis to create Prism.