We didn’t start Twigera to disrupt education. We started it because the people we love kept getting locked out of jobs, of nursing programs, of community college, of military enlistment — by a single missing piece of paper.
The four of us are teachers. We taught in classrooms, in community centers, in tutoring rooms above storefronts. We watched smart, capable adults sit through GED prep that was written for someone else — for a teenager with a free schedule, or for a textbook publisher’s template. The material rarely fit the person.
So we wrote the version we wished existed. Lessons short enough to fit a lunch break. Practice that gets harder when you’re ready and easier when you’re not. A path that adjusts to the life you’re actually living, instead of the one a curriculum designer imagined.
We don’t think of ourselves as a tech company. We think of ourselves as four teachers who built a tool, and then a few more teachers joined, and then a few thousand students did. We still teach. We still answer email. We still get the congratulatory texts when a student passes — and we still read every one.
If you’re here because you’re considering us, what we want you to know is this: the GED is not a consolation prize. It is a key. The door it opens is the rest of your life. We take that seriously.
