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EDPOWER

San Francisco, California, United States • 3 Employees
E-learning

EDPOWER's online courses help big-hearted, superhero teachers learn the skills they need to be the best teachers they can be, and fulfill their salary advancement and recertification needs.Our MissionOur mission is to empower educators by offering world-class continuing education opportunities that are accessible, engaging, and useful. Virtually any teacher with an internet connection and a commitment to self-empowerment through learning can come to EDPOWER, master research-proven skills, and amplify classroom impact.Our StudentsEDPOWER students are a community of global educators united in a shared goal of uplift and transformation. They are new and veteran K-12 educators from public, private and charter schools, and represent all disciplines. Our unique learning model enables them to engage with each other and the EDPOWER team in unprecedented ways. Our students are searching for continuing education credits, and what they find in EDPOWER is knowledge, community, and an experience to help them be their best.Our StoryEDPOWER began as an experiment in online learning to see if we could utilize technology to create a more impactful and useful continuing education experience. As current and former teachers, we felt that traditional forms of continuing education and professional development often fell short of helping to improve our practice. Conferences were a nice getaway but often left us inspired but uncertain about how to apply the useful things we learned. In-service PD, was hit or miss, and it often felt like we were just being lectured to by someone who had never been in the classroom or hadn't seen it in decades. Other online continuing education programs were convenient and helped us meet our credit needs, but at the end of the day felt like an exchange of money and time for credit and not much else. For over a year, we worked with educators of all experience levels and school types to create a new kind of continuing education experience—one that had the same engaging and collaborative aspects of our favorite college courses, but was accessible and flexible enough for our busy lives, and that would help us meet our salary advancement and recertification needs. Most importantly, we felt this experience must stay true to the original intent of continuing education: to help teachers advance their practice through mastery of in-demand classroom skills that build on the wealth of knowledge that they already have.EDPOWER proudly offers aspiring educators from all corners of the US and across the globe the opportunity to participate in engaging continuing education experience and contribute to a generous community of educators seeking to give their best to their students.