He followed a different path, at first bootstrapping his business and, later, accepting $ 150,000 in seed funding (in exchange for 7.5 percent equity) from a similar Nashville healthcare
innovation fund called
Jumpstart Foundry.
Nancie's books for Heinemann include Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School, which takes teachers inside her award - winning school to learn about the
innovations that make the biggest impact on achievement and community; Lessons That Change Writers, a year's worth of instruction straight from Nancie's file cabinets; and Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, which helps teachers to
jumpstart their teaching of writing and literature each day by unpacking a poem with their students.