Strategic Consulting · Education & Technology

The future of education
is here and now.

Discovering the genius within.

Studio 37 supports superintendents, district leaders, and ed tech companies in cutting through the noise of bright, shiny tools and getting honest about one question: is what you're doing actually accelerating outcomes for students?

Where It Started

A classroom, two decades ago.

Studio 37 began in my own classroom almost twenty years ago, working with students who were often written off as "behind." What I found instead was genius — quietly waiting to be noticed. My goal was never just to support those students in discovering it. It was to support them in loving it, and eventually living it out.

That work became The Genius Project, and it never really left the mission. Today I collaborate with individual leaders, school districts, and ed tech companies to keep them aligned to that same true north — using technology, pedagogy, and strategy as the vehicle, not the destination.

My expertise sits at the nexus of business, education, and technology — 12 years inside Apple and 15 years as an educator. That combination shaped Studio 37's real work: building schools, leaders, and teachers ready to prepare their students for the 22nd century — resulting in recognition from the business and education industries alike. Studio 37 exists in the gap between IT and Ed Services — the place where devices get purchased, but student outcomes don't always follow.

"On my last day as a teacher, my students handed me a farewell cake through tears and said: 'We know you have to leave — so you can bring what you did for us to the rest of the world.'" — 'DrG' George Cheung, Founder, Studio 37
The Framework

Every technology decision answers to two questions.

Districts don't have a shortage of devices. They have a shortage of clarity about what those devices are actually for. Studio 37 evaluates every tool, platform, and initiative against two measures.

01

Acceleration

Does this actually speed up learning and critical thinking — or does it just digitize the same pace and process you already had? A whiteboard replacing a blackboard isn't transformation. We look for the tools and practices that genuinely move students faster toward mastery.

02

New Pathways

Does it open a way for a student to access, think, or express themselves that didn't exist before? For a nonverbal student, a multilingual learner, or a student with a disability, the right technology isn't a convenience — it's a door that wasn't there.

How I Support

Consulting built around your district's priorities — not a product.

The engagement always starts the same way: what are your district's actual priorities? Everything after that is backward-mapped from your goals, not a vendor's roadmap.

District Steward

Acting as steward and guardian of your district's technology investment — making sure spending stays tied to your LCAP goals, your superintendent's priorities, and your California School Dashboard metrics, not the next hollow promise from a vendor.

Classroom Observations

Walking the halls and classrooms with your leadership team, documenting what's actually happening — student-centered or teacher-centered — and delivering clear, photographed observation reports your team can act on.

Strategic Planning

Multi-year roadmaps that connect your vision to measurable steps, built for the reality that shifting mindsets and practice takes years, not a single professional development day.

Leadership Advising

One-on-one and small-group strategy sessions with superintendents and their teams — thinking through possibilities, naming the gaps, and shaping the next move together.

Speaking & Faculty Training

Keynotes and working sessions for faculty, staff, and students that reconnect technology decisions back to the "why" — student learning, not the device.

AI & Ed Tech Alignment

Matching AI tools and platforms to your district's actual vision, with tangible KPIs and accountability — for the vendors you bring in, and for your own team.

EdTech Go-to-Market Advising

Supporting ed tech companies in translating their product into what superintendents actually care about — grounding your pitch in real district priorities, building the case studies and district-ready data that create credibility, and steering clear of being just another device to sell.

Fit

Who Studio 37 works best with.

Not every district is ready, and that's fine. The engagements that work are the ones where someone in leadership already senses the gap.

Open, Humble Cultures

Districts with a strong internal culture that are still honest enough to know they need outside perspective — and selective about who they let in.

Progressive Leaders

Superintendents and directors who already understand the impact of technology decisions, even if they're not the ones with deep technical expertise themselves.

Student-Outcome Focused

Leaders whose real metric is student growth — enrollment, literacy, graduation, access for special education and multilingual learners — not device counts.

EdTech Businesses

Companies that want more than a transactional sale to a district — ready to align their product roadmap to real student outcomes, prove it with district-ready data, and build the kind of trust that turns into word of mouth.

Track Record

Years of work, mostly behind the scenes.

Most of what Studio 37 does happens in the background — in strategy meetings and classroom walk-throughs, not press releases. Districts and initiatives that have been part of that work:

Downey Unified School District

Architected the district's Apple Distinguished School program from zero to 15 schools — the most Apple Distinguished Schools of any unified district in the world. Watch the 15-school video series →

LAUSD

Helped architect the Tech Tub initiative — rethinking how classroom technology is deployed and used at scale across one of the largest districts in the country.

Lynwood Unified School District

Multi-year partnership supporting district-wide technology strategy and classroom transformation.

Built for the long game

Real shifts in mindset and practice have taken 5–6 years to fully take hold in districts we've supported — and the results show up in enrollment, engagement, and outcomes, not just adoption numbers.

Covina Valley Sulphur Springs Anaheim Union Yuba City Unified Compton Unified
Let's Talk

Have district priorities you're trying to hit?

Tell me what your top priorities are. We'll map out how innovation/technology, pedagogy, funding, and the business of your district will align to hitting your goals.

'DrG' George Cheung, Ed.D, Founder
DrG@drgeorgecheung.com
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