What We Provide for Free
As a mission-driven nonprofit, we believe deeply in providing teachers with high-quality resources for free.
We believe that any educator who takes our free online course can implement our entire model successfully, without ever paying us a dime. In fact, we encourage this! There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of educators worldwide -- including many of our Distinguished Modern Classroom Educators -- who have transformed their classrooms using only this free course.
In addition to the free course, we provide and maintain:
Free teacher resources, including exemplar units, tech tutorials, and PLC guides.
A public Facebook Group, open to anyone interested in Modern Classrooms.
A weekly podcast, featuring our staff, educators, and other experts.
In the Modern Classrooms Essential course, you'll gain access to modules such as:
Understanding Modern Classrooms: hear from actual educators implementing the model, and learn an overview of the model, the learner experience, and more.
Mastery-Based Learning
Self-Pacing
Blended Instruction
Learning Design
Next Steps for Modern Classrooms
If you can better meet your students' needs using these free resources alone, we'll be thrilled!
Our Paid Programs
Over time, and by popular demand, we've realized that many educators benefit from additional support in the challenging process of classroom transformation. Educators worldwide have asked us to provide the following:
30-minute expert consultations ($45) with experienced Modern Classroom educators. These are available on demand, and provide an excellent opportunity for interested teachers to ask questions personal to their own schools or students.
Virtual Mentorship Program ($750), in which educators are paired with our Expert Modern Classroom Mentors, to receive personalized coaching, feedback on lesson materials, access to our private network of Modern Classroom educators, and graduate credits. Educators may enroll during the school year or over the summer, depending on their preferences.
For interested schools and districts, we also offer Partnerships, in which cohorts of educators enroll and complete our Virtual Mentorship Programs together.
We've found over time that educators greatly appreciate the support our mentors provide:
The average rating of our programs is well above 9/10.
Over 95% of educators would recommend our programs to a colleague.
We believe these paid programs provide an excellent supplement to the materials presented in our free online course.
Why We Charge
There is one thing that we charge for: our educators' time. We pay our Expert Mentors fairly for sharing their expertise. Our Mentors are highly experienced and skilled educators, whom we've trained to coach and support the next generation of Modern Classroom educators. We are proud to pay them many thousands of dollars each year to empower their peers and colleagues.
Because we know teachers' budgets are often tight, we offer three kinds of support:
30-minute expert consultation ($45): Schedule a time to meet with one of our Expert Mentors, to ask questions and discuss Modern Classroom implementation.
Virtual Mentorship Program ($750): During the school year or over the summer, complete a full training course that includes personalized coaching, feedback on classroom materials, and access to our full network of Modern Classroom educators. We also offer graduate credits for this program.
School & District Partnerships (contact us): Transform an entire school or district by enrolling a cohort of teachers in our Virtual Mentorship Programs.
If you like, you can ask your school to sponsor you -- and join our waiting list for donor-funded scholarships -- by completing this two-minute form.thrive.
Whether you take our free course, join our Mentorship Program, or launch a district-wide partnership, our goal is always the same: to give you tools to build classrooms that respond to every student's needs.
We hope you'll find something here that helps!