ÌÇÐÄAPP

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There is a growing segment of curious and passionate learners who don’t thrive in traditional school systems. ÌÇÐÄAPP is designed to serve them. Over the last four years, we’ve have been proud to provide an accredited and award-winning alternative to learners globally who love learning, but hate memorizing for exams.

To date, we’ve served families in over 30 countries across 6 continents. We offer interdisciplinary learning journeys, where we learn by doing and having a positive impact on the world. We replace exams with project-based assessments.

Along the way, we were pleasantly surprised not just by the reception from families but also from other schools. From the moment we launched ÌÇÐÄAPP, schools began reaching out, asking how they could do what we’re doing. I would speak to school principals and educators who would share the challenges faced by learners in their school and express the need for alternative pathways. We would meet with other school teams to present our curriculum, pedagogy, and operations in the hope of learning how to do what we do. It was clear there was a shared hunger for change across the education systems.

Becoming Schools of Humanity

As interest grew, we began exploring partnerships with both governments and private school providers. At first, these collaborations focused on extracurricular and enrichment programs, offering our interdisciplinary challenges as a supplement to traditional schooling. But the demand quickly evolved. Schools wanted more than an add-on; they wanted a full-time alternative pathway that could exist within their own systems.

Today, we’re making that possible. We are kicking off a series of pilots with schools around the world to expand our offering, allowing partner schools to offer a ÌÇÐÄAPP pathway within their schools.

How it works

Partner schools gain access to our complete model and curriculum, including our interdisciplinary challenges, project-based skill units, and Flourishing program, which develops emotional, somatic and existential intelligence. The offering spans middle through high school, delivered through Voyager, our learning platform designed specifically for interdisciplinary, competency-based and project-based education.

We provide educator training, ongoing mentorship, and a community of practice that connects partner schools worldwide.

Each school becomes part of an ecosystem of educators reimagining what schooling can look like, not someday, but now.

Case Study: GIA Micro School, Seoul

One of our first partners is GIA Micro School in Gangnam, Seoul, a forward-thinking school that shares our belief that learning should be relevant, personalized, and future-focused.

GIA is now offering the ÌÇÐÄAPP Diploma, allowing their learners to experience the same interdisciplinary challenges and project-based curriculum as our global cohorts, but within an in-person micro-school environment.

Educators at GIA have been trained through our program and supported through the Voyager platform, which centralizes everything from projects and skill units to assessments and resources. Learners are building the same human literacies that define our model.

Hear from Philip directly about GIA Micro Lab’s implementation of project-based learning through the ÌÇÐÄAPP curriculum:

Expanding our pilots

For schools, this partnership offers a meaningful alternative pathway within their own ecosystem, one that allows learners to embark on personalized pathways towards future-readiness. It gives them access to 100s of innovative interdisciplinary learning journeys combined with the technology and training to implement them.

For us, it’s a way to reach more learners, and do so in person or hybrid. Each partnership allows us to extend our mission beyond our digital campus, creating pockets of innovation around the world where learners are provided with more alternatives to traditional schooling.

Over the next year, we’ll be piloting additional partnerships with schools ready to rethink what education can be. If you represent a school or network exploring future-focused models, we’d love to connect and explore how we can collaborate.

Together, we can build a new generation of Schools of Humanity, where learning is driven by human progress.

Raya Bidshahri

Founder & CEO, ÌÇÐÄAPP. Award-winning educator, serial entrepreneur and futurist.