Educurious Partners

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“This year, educurious experienced significant growth by expanding our implementations in schools utilizing our project and problem-based curricula, our professional development services and our career connected learning solutions. We are thrilled that we were able to serve more teachers and students across the country and increase our partnerships with employers to provide career-connected awareness, exposure and experiences to youth. By providing authentic learning in school and real work opportunities after and out of school, young people are better able to take ownership for their futures. Our educurious approach takes advantage of today's technologies to coordinate a web of services that strengthen schools by training teachers as 21st century leaders and connecting students with working professionals on a wide range of challenging projects that fully engage them in collaborative, problem-solving work that ignites their passion and curiosity. We offer students new ways to discover the relevance of what they're learning. By leveraging technology as a tool and proven educational approaches, we developed and rolled out an integrated solution that brings innovation and support to what happens there. The educurious integrated solution captures the imagination and interest of students by combining project-based learning, technology, and connections with real-world experts, to create a meaningful learning experience that cultivates contemporary skills and readiness for college and careers. In schools that teamed up with educurious this year, teachers continued to expand their repertoire of approaches to establish a student-centered learning environment in their classrooms, supporting their students on competency-based trajectories as developing experts. Students collaborated with working professionals who exposed them to a variety of professions and why school matters in preparing for them. Learning became relevant as students solved challenges facing their communities while gaining the knowledge, skills and dispositions for college and career success. Our results from working with 27,670 students and 426 teachers in 107 schools across 20 states include higher attendance, grades, test scores, and lower rates of absenteeism and discipline. In addition, the students with whom we worked have changed self-images. Teachers had a renewed sense of enthusiasm and the tools and approaches to establish vibrant learning communities in their classrooms. This was our fourth year of licensing our courses and providing fee-based professional development services to schools. We developed additional projects and courses and rolled them out across the schools we work with. Our project based learning approach develops students' higher order thinking skills to evaluate research and responsibly take action on issues that matter to them. Students also work extensively in a variety of team settings both in-class and virtually, and depend on some self-paced, student driven instruction. We received a second year grant from the george lucas educational foundation with which we rolled out our new middle school (8th grade) history course called project america. The focus of the course is the u.s. Constitution and what it means to students to be an american today and enables them to develop the skills to think like historians. We expanded our work with empatico/kind foundation to create elementary school learning resources to help 3rd and 4th graders build empathy towards others. The educurious expert network is an effective way to connect those working professionals with students to help them develop these crucial contemporary skills and understand the vast array of career possibilities before them. Never before have professionals had the opportunity to easily mentor students in classrooms across the country, but through the use of technology and our mediated social network, it was happening in schools in 20 states. Our mentors are called "experts;" they are”

“Professional development: program service expenses 546,186. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 546,186.”

“ROUNDING -2.”