Fusion Academy Reviews

Pros

The culture is great, as are the people who make it great! I’ve worked for two different VP’s at Fusion and both are stellar women in their own right. First and foremost, leadership cares about people. That goes unsaid too often. The work is inspiring and challenging. There is an amazing vibe at the schools that the Teachers and leaders in the school somehow magically create every day. Many say “Family-like” but I say “Sports team-like” which aligns more to the really strong friendships that are built within the teams. I genuinely feel like there is a little bit of "home" that is alive on every campus. Teachers are amazing, the parents and students love the impact that Teachers make by personalizing the experience for each student. Good hardware. Clean offices and spaces. Schools are located in great parts of great cities. HomeBase office is right downtown Grand Rapids MI. Taking COVID and DE&I extremely seriously.

Cons

Everyone wants new and better systems faster. My uninformed opinion is we were slow in hiring a CIO and getting more leaders on the bus to address this within the systems and development teams. By hiring a CIO I believe the company is taking things seriously to grow the team that is addressing enterprise-wide struggles with systems and the acquisition of a competitor. The company while addressing DE&I issues, gets a ding from me.

Pros

Flexible hours teach what you want

Cons

On hourly pay as teachers, don't have many hours when you first start

Pros

Umm, nice facility, and maybe an opportunity for new teachers to pad their resume before swiftly moving on to greener pastures.

Cons

Toxic corporate culture run by a top-down, tone-deaf hierarchy that regards teachers as expendable, exploitable commodities toward its true mission of maximizing profits for its investor group, while offering pitiful wages/benefits and unsustainable schedules to teachers, leading to atrocious staff turnover rates (our campus averaged 50% annually!!) and thus a disruptive learning environment for the students, who in turn are routinely assigned multiple teachers to complete a single course amidst the steady stream of departures, whose parents are paying exorbitant tuitions for what they are misled to believe is a uniquely qualified school staffed by well-compensated, expert instructors, not the inexperienced and/or untrained newbs pressed into serving the challenging, special-ed type of clientele that Fusion targets. Play at your own risk, dear friends.