Educurious
For Supporting The Transition And Incorporation Of Courses Into The Educurious Portfolio
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/21/2022
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Founded in 2011, Educurious is a nonprofit organization that develops project-based curriculum and adaptive professional learning for teachers, school leaders, and system leaders in order to create authentic, challenging, active, and relevant learning experiences for every student. In January 2023, Educurious will become the new home of Sprocket, a platform hosting 10 research-based, full-year project-based learning courses and 13,000 educators. This grant will support the integration of Sprocket into Educurious’ OER business plan and preparation for the release of Sprocket courses for use at scale with supporting professional learning. This work advances the Open Education strategy’s goal to expand awareness and use of open educational resources and practices that are responsive for every learner. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.educurious.org
Address
3919 Latona Ave NE C-1, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for supporting the transition and incorporation of courses into the Educurious portfolio
Founded in 2011, Educurious is a nonprofit organization that develops project-based curriculum and adaptive professional learning for teachers, school leaders, and system leaders in order to create authentic, challenging, active, and relevant learning experiences for every student. In January 2023, Educurious will become the new home of Sprocket, a platform hosting 10 research-based, full-year project-based learning courses and 13,000 educators. This grant will support the integration of Sprocket into Educurious’ OER business plan and preparation for the release of Sprocket courses for use at scale with supporting professional learning. This work advances the Open Education strategy’s goal to expand awareness and use of open educational resources and practices that are responsive for every learner. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for diversity, equity, and inclusion capacity building and application of open licensing
Educurious supports educators, schools, and district leaders with customizable project-based learning curriculum, tools and resources, immersive professional development opportunities, and access to a vibrant learning community. With this grant, Educurious will work with experts and apply their newly developed equity-integrated framework to design and audit their project-based learning curriculum, as well as work to create internal organizational environments that are anti-racist and equitable; and share their work as open educational resources. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for supporting the open licensing of educational materials
Educurious supports educators, schools, and district leaders with customizable project-based learning curricula, tools, and resources; immersive professional development opportunities; and access to a vibrant learning community. With this grant, Educurious will examine organizational practices and approaches to more deeply address diversity, equity, and inclusion. Educurious will work with experts to create a framework for designing anti-racist curricula and operational environments within organizations to be shared as open educational resources. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
