UnboundEd

UnboundEd is dedicated to empowering teachers and leaders to meet the challenges set by higher standards, unfinished instruction, and institutional racism by providing immersive professional development on instructional equity. The group’s programmatic outcomes are centered around teachers adapting and delivering meaningful, engaging, affirming, and grade-level lessons, with the support from coaches, school leaders, and partners. This approach helps educators, schools, and communities turn schools into places that empower and equip every student for a lifetime of learning and effective use of open educational resources. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)

UnboundEd is a national nonprofit that supports educators in their efforts to effectively and equitably implement standards-aligned curricula. UnboundEd aims to provide innovative and impactful professional development and capacity-building services for educators and to advance research on openly licensed instructional materials, while also creating a foundation for long-term financial sustainability through earned revenue. This approach helps educators, schools, and communities turn schools into places that empower and equip every student for a lifetime of learning, and to expand access to open educational resources. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)

UnboundEd is a national organization supporting educators to better use standards-aligned curricula. UnboundEd will curate and publish open, comprehensive, sequenced curricula that are aligned to standards; provide in-depth professional development to teachers and leaders on their use; and collaborate with a network of nonprofit partners to help ensure implementation support in districts, schools, and classrooms. Creation of a strong supply of instructional materials aligned to deeper learning is essential to building educator capacity to teach these competencies and to enable effective use of OER.