Our Mission: We're committed to building a future where every child breathes clean air that protects their health, enhances their cognitive development, and contributes to our collective resilience against pandemics.
How We Help Schools
Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to improve what you already have, we meet you where you are:
1. Audit & Improvement
Already invested in air quality? We evaluate what you have, identify what's working and what isn't, and help you optimize your existing equipment and practices. We've seen air purifiers sitting unused in storage closets because they were too loud, devices running on the wrong settings, and districts paying premium prices for equipment that doesn't perform.
2. Assessment & Deployment
First time investing in air quality? We support detailed needs assessments to understand your current goals, starting conditions, and risk factors. We identify cost-effective and evidence-based solutions that fit — then help you source and set up quiet, effective air purifiers optimized specifically for classroom use, and upgrade your HVAC filtration where your system allows.
3. Validation & Ongoing Support
For larger districts, we can support strategic pilots to demonstrate impact before full-scale investment, with rigorous measurement of attendance, health, and academic outcomes. From initial assessment through procurement, installation, and ongoing maintenance, we handle the details so you can focus on educating students.
Our Team
Our team includes deep experience in K-12 education operations, having built and scaled organizations like Panorama Education serving tens of thousands of schools nationwide, combined with leadership in indoor air quality science and technology. We understand your goals, your constraints, and what it takes to implement solutions that don't just sound good on paper.
David Carel
David has spent the last decade building and scaling organizations that aim to solve some of the most pressing problems in health and education, uniquely combining proven education entrepreneurship with airborne disease expertise.
In 2012 he co-founded Panorama Education, a Y Combinator-backed data analytics startup that currently helps tens of thousands of public schools across all 50 states answer critical questions about student experience, school climate, parent engagement, and educator professional development. David then lived in South Africa for several years where he helped create and run Funda Wande, an organization that works closely with the South African government to design, evaluate, and scale up early grade literacy and math interventions. In 2023, he joined Blueprint Biosecurity, driven by the urgent need for new pandemic prevention solutions.
David received Bachelor's degrees in Economics from Yale College and in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Jessica Cole
Jessica is a civic entrepreneur who cofounded and scaled the U.S. Digital Response, an award-winning nonprofit that placed technologists with more than 150 state, local, and federal government agencies across the country to solve critical community needs during and after COVID-19.
She has served in leadership roles across education, health, and government innovation over the past 10 years, founding the innovation practice as Head of Economic Development and Innovation for the City of Walnut Creek, CA; building technology for the City of Kansas City, MO's Public Health Department as an embedded Code for America Fellow; and teaching policy entrepreneurship as interim Director and Senior Advisor at the Aspen Institute's Aspen Policy Academy. She began her career at Panorama Education supporting millions of students, parents, and teachers in improving their learning environments across the country.
Jessica received her Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from Yale College and is a Faculty Associate at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies and a former Visiting Practitioner in Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech.
Liesl McConchie
Liesl is an international expert on how the brain learns and the conditions the brain needs to learn at its best. She is the author of Building a Positive Math Identity: A Brain Science Approach, and co-author of best-selling book Brain-Based Learning with Dr. Eric Jensen. Liesl has been published in multiple education journals, including ASCD's Educational Leadership, NCTM's Mathematics Teacher, and Edutopia.
She has a rich background in education that includes creating new schools, leading whole-school reforms, delivering workshops to educators, and speaking at conferences. With over 25 years of experience in education, Liesl combines her knowledge of cognitive neuroscience with her experience of teaching across the K-12 spectrum to support schools in understanding the role school indoor air quality plays in improving cognition, attendance, and student and teacher health.
Megan Kenslea
Megan has spent over a decade working at the intersection of education, technology, and public affairs, working in schools, nonprofits, and private companies. She has deep experience working with schools and districts to help them implement ambitious projects in practical ways that work within their systems and context, not against them.
As an early team member at Panorama Education, she helped scale the company's services team, supporting schools and districts across the country. She designed and led programs that guided school districts through complex implementation changes and helped schools use data to drive decision making and support students and teachers. Megan is a third generation teacher and began her career as an elementary school teacher in New York City. Her experience in the classroom drives her interest in helping schools focus on the things that actually matter for kids and for teachers.
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