About

Built by a teacher who runs the workflow it manages.

Boomerang Projects came directly out of the classroom. It is designed by a working teacher who runs extended research projects every year — who knows the rubric, the deadlines, and the daily realities the workspace is built to support.

A 3D illustration of a project board wrapped by a plum boomerang arc with a sage return chevron.
Portrait of Drew Snow, founder and CEO of Boomerang Projects, in his Chicago classroom wearing a purple quarter-zip.
Drew Snow · Founder & CEO

The founder

Drew Snow

Founder & CEO, Boomerang Projects™

Drew Snow is a high school English department chair and member of the school leadership team in Chicago, where he has taught for over two decades. He has twice been named a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, studying Chaucer and the Middle Ages at Yale and Shakespeare at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Most recently, Drew was selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Researcher in Greece, focusing on how schools can better support student voice and agency. He has also served as a teacher consultant to the ACT exam, a Reader for the AP® English Literature exam, and a curriculum consultant for Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in partnership with the College Board’s AP® Seminar program.

drewsnow@boomerangpass.com

The company

One brand. Two products. One philosophy.

Boomerang Projects is part of the Boomerang family of classroom tools. The first product, Boomerang Pass, is a privacy-first digital hall pass for high schools — built around trust, dignity, and quiet accountability. Boomerang Projects extends the same philosophy into a different part of the school day: the extended research project, where freedom is the point and structure is what protects it.

Both products share the same conviction. The tools we put in classrooms should reflect the best of teaching — trust, judgment, and care — and they should make the routines of school quieter, fairer, and more respectful of student time.

Our principles

What we will and will not build.

Teacher judgment is the product.

Software supports it. Software does not replace it.

Student work belongs to the student.

It is not training data for us or anyone else.

Structure should protect freedom.

Not erase it. The workflow belongs to the student first.

Conversation before consequence.

Signals are information for a teacher, not automatic flags.

Privacy by design.

Minimal data, FERPA-aware, no third-party trackers in student flows.

Non-generative AI only.

No student-facing essay generation. Ever.

Direct line to the founder

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