Scoot Education
Anthony Hayford is a skilled educator and chemist with extensive experience in academia and research. Currently serving as a Science Educator at Scoot Education since February 2023 and holding multiple positions at the Los Angeles Community College District, including Professor and Associate Professor since 2016, Anthony has dedicated years to teaching and mentoring students. Prior to their academic roles, Anthony worked as a Senior Research Chemist at FlexSynthesis Inc from 2007 to 2016. Anthony holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Maryland, as well as a Master of Science in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Scoot Education
At Scoot, we're dedicated to placing exceptional teachers into vibrant educational settings through personalized service and tech-based solutions. We help you find great educators, so you can focus your time on making great schools. --------- Scoot aims to make it simpler, faster, and more collaborative to get great teachers into classrooms and drive stronger learning outcomes as a result. We bring new perspectives and new tech-driven solutions. We are small, we are nimble, we understand urgency, we get technology, we value diversity, and we have heart. We care as much as you do about who’s standing at the front of every classroom in America. Our mission is simple and mostly likely very similar to yours; we are here to help create exceptional experiences in education. That is our shared focus. We’ve been building our expertise since 2005 across the globe and we’re accelerating towards our goal of reaching 1 million students every week. --------- We're also the proud founders of TeachStart, our innovative earn-and-learn academy that helps you jumpstart your teaching career! We created TeachStart to tackle two main issues: 1. A growing shortage of quality teachers. 2. A lack of equal opportunity to become a teacher. TeachStart allows those with a college degree to get hands-on teaching experience, an annual salary, and benefits all while earning teaching credentials. We make it possible for you to become a teacher without the barriers. Interested? Learn more at teachstart.org!