Today’s students have declared their desire to make a difference after they graduate. Additionally, the boomers have entered their third stage of life transitioning from a successful life to seeking a life of significance. Combined, these two generations make up over 60% of today’s workforce. However, as we continue to educate in an antiquated fashion, we put the long-term success of these investments at risk. Education for this growing group of social innovators needs to outline their new identities and relevance.

EvolvED is an essential professional education certificate program designed to build the necessary skills for social entrepreneurs to achieve the essential double bottom line returns for investors and the communities they serve. This program is exclusively designed for leaders of all ages and geographies actively engaged with social enterprises of all stages both philanthropies, nonprofit and for-profit enterprises. Additionally, to fill the critical gap in leadership education and support services, EvolvED has developed a comprehensive series of social entrepreneur leadership courses with high academic rigor designed to fill the gap between a few formal higher education degree programs and low-level mentoring with soft skills development market offerings.

Matenwa Project

The Friends of Matenwa Foundation’s mission is to be a democratic model of hands on education in Haiti that reflects the learning and growing possible in one’s local environment. The program uses methodologies designed for indigenous culture through experimentation, evaluation, and modifications, resulting in the present implementation of highly successful practices.

THE LAB SCHOOL

The Matènwa Community School mission was to help children learn information and receive training that would prepare them for their futures. This innovative model provides a framework for basic skills in math, reading and writing, and unique critical thinking and creative learning solutions through unifying circles, discussion, debate, and planning. Due to the popularity and adoption throughout Haiti, this rural school has become a national Lab School.

MOTHER TONGUE BOOKS

Children do not acquire functional literacy skills because they are not learning to read in their mother tongue. Book writing and By sharing across borders contributes to each other’s education and helping one another become literate.

INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING

A proven program that provides one week teacher trainings for schools seeking to find a more effective way to teach. Educators attend Teachers and directors have been coming to Matènwa, Lagonav from all over Haiti to learn through observation, dialogue, and hands on practice. They return to their own communities and try to emulate the Matènwa Way.  We hope that each school succeeds or surpasses us. 

As a step toward reinventing traditional teaching methods, reformed teaching practice needs to be supported by flexible school design.  The evolving design of school infrastructure involves open classroom design, moveable furniture and new storage methods to accommodate reflection circles, use of manipulative resources and group forums. SCAD created a design for sustainable school environments class which involved student creation of ergonomic  designs  and  development  of plans for localized creation of classroom desk systems and moveable wall partition structures uniquely designed for an open classroom environment.  The design and development criteria include but are not be limited to;