CEO at Transeo 🔹 On a mission to close the skills gap by unlocking work-based learning opportunities for all 🔹 Innovative & Entrepreneurial COO (2x Exited) 🔹 Bridging Education to Workforce

I'm Cecilia Retelle Zywicki, the CEO and Co-Founder of LearningSpring.

As an education innovator and a parent myself, I founded LearningSpring to answer the critical question that many families face: How do parents find the right educational fit for their child amidst the complexity and confusion? 

Our North Star is simple: to simplify school choice, so every family can easily discover, compare, and access schools that fit their needs and values.

LearningSpring is an AI-powered platform that’s built by parents for parents. We’ve designed it to empower families with transparent information, personalized guidance, and user-friendly tools. I lead a team committed to accessibility, equity, and practical solutions, bridging the gap between federal/state programs, schools, and real family needs.

My belief in parental empowerment as an essential to student success drives my work. I bring extensive operational and strategic leadership experience from the EdTech and HealthTech sectors, along with a proven ability to scale impact. I hold a JD from the University of Denver and a BS/M.Ed. from the University of Minnesota.

I am passionate about advancing educational opportunity for every child, partnering with states, schools, and families to help them confidently chart a path to a brighter future.

Let's connect to discuss how we can build a compliant, equitable choice infrastructure for your state!

Cecilia Retelle Zywicki 🖥

Imagine there was only one national entrée.

Chicken. Everywhere. Forever.

My husband is a great cook, but if he tried to serve our daughters chicken every single night, there would be a revolt by Thursday.

It wouldn’t matter how well seasoned it was. Or how beautifully plated. Or how many times he explained that chicken is healthy and widely approved.

Even worse, what if there WERE other options, but not everyone could get them?

If you happen to live in the right ZIP code, you get a menu. If not, chicken again for you!

We would not accept that in food. We would not accept that anywhere.

And we are beginning to not accept it in education, either: school choice is the strongest it has ever been, with roughly 75% of voters (and even higher shares of school parents) saying families should be able to choose the school that fits their child’s needs.

Parents are signaling that access to a single model is no longer enough. 

A healthy system offers variety. 

We aren’t attacking the default. Chicken is a good thing. We simply recognize that human beings are not identical, and systems built for millions of children should reflect that reality.

Kids are awesome little people. Here's one of my girls with our new Chihuahua... we just got the results of her age test back and she's three & 1/2 years old!

Cecilia Retelle Zywicki, Esq., M.Ed. 💧

CEO & Co-Founder of LearningSpring.com 🔹 School Choice Advocate 🔹 Parent-Driven Leader 🔹 Building Scalable Solutions for Families & Impactful Growth

I write... I think... I feel. Trying to cope with life with humour. And I’m still trying to understand myself.

I quit my job in tech because I couldn’t find any joy in it anymore.

I felt like I was just doing what society told me to do... being “good” according to their rules.

I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t keep pretending to live while feeling half-alive.

So I went back to my first passion... my first love: writing.

Now, I’m building my life around writing and humor.

I write to feel. I write to understand myself and make sense of the world.

And honestly? I feel lighter every time I let it out.

If you like my style, and you think we could create something great together... send me a DM. 

I’d love to connect.

Mahmoud Owies

Can we just be kinder to each other?
Can we stop fueling hate?

I’m not preaching. I don’t know much about this world... or even about my own life.

But I do know that more hate... degrading human lives, attacking or ridiculing each other is not the answer. It never will be.

On a smaller scale, it could be just a comment. Or talking about someone behind their back. Or, you know… tearing people down on social media (hello, LinkedInLunatics).

On a bigger scale, it looks different. It looks like ideas fighting each other. You protect your beliefs by trying to destroy someone else’s.

You act superior. You claim you’re righteous. You’re the good... and they’re evil. Pure evil. Monsters.
Or maybe not even human…
(Am I a robot?)

I’m not saying abandon your values. They’re part of who you are.
I’m not saying don’t disagree with anyone... we have to. It’s how we evolve.

All I’m saying is: please, please, please remember we’re all human.
We all have feelings.
We’re all going through a lot.

Before we justify hurting and attacking each other.

Writer | Remembering how to be awesome... One word... One meme... At a time. Technically a content creator.

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