About Centennial
Meet the Founder
Centennial Education Solutions was founded by Caitlin Spurr, an educator who has spent her career inside real classrooms, supporting children and navigating the daily operational realities of school life alongside teachers and administrators.
Caitlin is a practicing elementary teacher with a background in literacy, child development, and school operations. She has worked closely with students, families, specialists, front offices, and school leadership, and understands firsthand how fragmented tools, informal workarounds, and unclear systems quietly increase risk for schools and stress for educators.
As both an educator and a parent, Caitlin has seen how critical it is for schools to protect student dignity, maintain clear documentation, and support teachers without adding noise or unnecessary complexity.
Centennial was not born from a pitch deck or a theoretical problem. It was built from lived experience, the moments when a teacher needs help without disrupting a class, when documentation matters later, and when schools deserve systems that support professional judgment rather than override it.
Caitlin founded Centennial to create calm, trustworthy infrastructure for schools, starting with Teacher by Centennial. The work is intentionally focused, privacy-aware, and designed to fit how schools actually operate, not how software companies wish they would.
Centennial is built with a long-term view: respecting school culture, protecting educators, and creating systems that earn trust through restraint, clarity, and reliability.
We build systems that protect time, clarity, and human connection in schools.
Centennial Education Solutions was founded by an educator who has lived inside private, charter and public schools, not just studied them from the outside. She also is a e combine lived educational experience with the kind of technical leadership required to build systems schools can truly rely on.
We know what it feels like to juggle instruction, communication, compliance, and care, all while trying to stay present for children and families. That understanding is matched with a commitment to building infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and thoughtfully designed, without sacrificing ease of use.
Schools do extraordinary work every day.
The systems supporting them often do not.
We exist to change that.
Our belief is simple
When systems work quietly in the background, people can show up fully in the foreground.
Centennial builds school technology that reduces friction instead of adding it. We focus on clarity over complexity, trust over noise, and tools that respect the professional judgment of educators.
We believe technology should:
Give teachers time back, not take it
Help administrators see clearly, not chase information
Support families without adding emotional or logistical load
Center children as whole humans, not data points
Built by educators, designed for real life
Centennial was created by a classroom teacher, mom, and school leader who saw the same patterns year after year, incredible people constrained by fragmented tools, duplicated work, and systems that don’t talk to each other.
We design every product by starting with real workflows:
What does a teacher need in the moment?
What does an administrator need to know right now?
What information do families actually want, and when?
What can be automated safely, and what must stay human?
If it doesn’t make life meaningfully easier, it doesn’t belong
What makes Centennial different
We are not trying to be everything at once.
We are building a clear, phased system that schools can trust.
Centennial starts with a lightweight operational core, the Teacher Command Center, expands thoughtfully into instructional insight, alignment, and operational support over time. We integrate with existing systems first, earn trust, and only replace what no longer serves schools.
We do not believe in surveillance, unnecessary data extraction, or technology that replaces relationships. Our AI is designed to support professional decision-making, not override it.
Our values guide every decision
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Educators, families, and children come before features, speed, or scale
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If it requires training manuals to function, it’s not done yet
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Schools deserve systems they can understand, defend, and explain.
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We believe strong schools and strong families reinforce one another.
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We are building infrastructure, not trends.
Why “Centennial?”
The name reflects our belief in building systems meant to last, grounded, resilient, and thoughtfully designed for the long term. Like the landscape that inspired us, Centennial is steady, dependable, and built to support growth over time.
Our commitment
We are committed to building technology that schools are proud to use, teachers recommend to one another, and families trust without hesitation.
This is not software for show.
It’s infrastructure for people who care deeply about children.
Contact us
Whether you’re interested in becoming a pilot school, learning more about our approach, or exploring a future partnership, we’re happy to connect.