The Gedi Vision for Education
The education system wasn’t built for this moment. It was built for a world that no longer exists, one that valued compliance over creativity and control over connection. At Gedi Village Foundation, we are creating something entirely new: a communal learning model where children, parents, and educators grow together. Rooted in relationship and powered by purpose, Gedi prepares people not just to succeed in school but to thrive in life, with empathy, curiosity, and the courage to lead a different kind of future.
At the heart of Gedi is the Beehive Model
A living, breathing framework shaped by how real learning happens: in relationship. It replaces rigid hierarchy with deep collaboration, and sees every child, family member, and educator as an essential part of the whole.
Our model is grounded in four guiding pillars:
Education is co-created, not delivered from the top down
Every role is interdependent
Responsibility is shared across the village
Learning is continuous, evolving in real time
What Sets Us Apart
No More Silos
Leveraging the latest in research to break down silos between subjects, roles, and learning contexts.
Real-World Skills, Baked In
Embedding critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and adaptability into everything we do.
Whole Child, Whole Village
Engaging the whole child and the whole community—because learning doesn’t stop at the classroom door.
Who’s Behind Gedi?
Gedi was founded by Ashley Baylen and Quinn Simpson—two visionaries with deep roots in community-building, child development, educator coaching, and school culture transformation. With a shared belief that education must be reimagined from the ground up, they are not just starting a school. They are building a movement to change how children, families, and educators grow together.
is one of the co-founders of Camp Gedi and heads up Staff Development. Over the last decade she has been building Graydin, an organisation working to revolutionize the ways we support, empower and connect with our next generations so they can thrive at school and at home. Together with more than 300 schools and Universities world-wide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011. Quinn has 15 years of experience in coaching, teacher-training and learning content creation for teachers, students and caregivers. She is a certified Co-Active Coach and NLP Coach Practitioner, and at the age of 24, she co-founded a small charity called Akosia that operated for 10 years using coaching as a facilitation technique in filmmaking projects for underprivileged children and women.
Quinn Simpson
Co-founder of the Gedi Village Foundation and Camp Gedi’s Camp Director.
A lifelong community builder and entrepreneur, Ashley began organizing projects at age eight and has been launching mission-driven initiatives ever since. After graduating from film school, she founded a social media strategy company and built global partnerships before influencer marketing was a recognized field.
Becoming a mother in 2017 reshaped her path, inspiring a deep commitment to transforming the way we support and educate both children and caregivers. At the height of the pandemic, Ashley co-founded ByUs Box, a company that created educational toolkits to help families raise anti-racist, inclusive kids. This work led her to join Lovevery as their Senior Advisor to Equity and Inclusion.
Ashley’s work sits at the intersection of early childhood development, company building, and community engagement—designing learning environments and initiatives that prioritize emotional growth, deep connection, and collective care. With Gedi, she is focused on building a future where education is relational, communal, and built to reflect the world our children are growing up in.
Ashley Baylen
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