Since 2000, EduChange has been re-engineering secondary science education to meet the needs of a rapidly changing, highly interconnected world. UNESCO reports over 543 million students enrolled in secondary education worldwide, an increase of nearly 100 million students since we began this work. By 2015, many of the issues named in the SDGs already were driving our interdisciplinary learning model, so explicitly embedding the SDGs was an obvious next step. We tapped the expertise of STEM practitioners around the globe and connected their real-world perspectives to the content. By 2018 all 17 SDGs had been transformed into authentic, diverse studies that lend humanity, relevance and urgency to STEM learning. Now we invite students to connect multiple SDGs to global contexts in 35 learning modules. Over time, students internalize how interdependent systems connect humanity and the natural world.
Beginning in August 2021 we launched a multi-month project-based learning experience with ~800 high school students and ~18 teachers in Southern California and California's Central Valley. Alongside local & national experts, they will study the extensive natural & built water infrastructure currently under stress in California, and along the entire West Coast of North America. Eight SDGs are in focus as students marshal real-time STEM data on water access, water quality, water treatment, water scarcity, water conservation, and water power (hydropower). As emerging California leaders, caregivers, and citizens, they will mobilize to share their collected data and knowledge with their local community, including their families.
About EduChange, Inc.
At EduChange we believe that 1) there is no greater power than the confidence in your own ability to learn, and 2) everyone can learn. Current academic systems do not support our mission for equity. EduChange redesigns formal educational systems serving learners between ages 13-20 & their teachers.
