Educurious Partners

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“In this year, educurious continued to expand our work that ushers in a new chapter in secondary school education that is reinvigorating teachers and inspiring students to more fully engage with the world around them. 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. What happened in schools that teamed up with educurious in this year? - teachers gained access to new professional development opportunities that bolstered their confidence and capabilities in the classroom, becoming activators with their students. - students engaged with working professionals who inspired them to prepare for college and tomorrow's careers. - learning was transformed from a paper-based exercise into a set of authentic projects that brought subjects in biology, english language arts, and more, fully to life. Our results in this year from working with nearly 20,000 students and 329 teachers in 74 schools across 16 states include higher attendance, grades, test scores, and lower average rates of chronic truancy, tardiness and suspensions compared to their matched, comparison students. In addition, the students with whom we worked have changed perceptions of who they are and what they can do as evidenced through self-reports and also by their teachers. Teachers consistently state that they have a renewed sense of enthusiasm and also have the tools and approaches to establish vibrant learning communities in their classrooms. This was our third 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 generous grant from the george lucas educational foundation with which we developed a 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 be an american while they develop the skills to think like historians. 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 16 states. Our mentors are called "experts;" they are drawn from the community of working and retired professional with relevant skills in the domains students are asked to learn, and they help students directly make connections between what they are learning in school and how it applies in the "world", and often given students direct and meaningful feedback to help them improve their work. In this year, we piloted a new program call”

“Professional development: program service expenses 557,011. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 557,011. Course contractors: program service expenses 12,500. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 12,500.”

“Professional fees itemized listing: v1 and v2 course contractors: $12,500 professional development: $557,011”