Afterschool Learning Programs

Our mission is to engage kids in deeper learning by promoting inquiry and project based activities in teams.

Satya Gunampalli Founder & CEO, Learning2Innovate, Inc.

469.278.3157 satya@learning2innovate.com

We are an educational startup promoting inquiry and project based learning in teams. Our programs are student centric to empower young minds to apply their knowledge to solve complex problems and innovate to succeed in life. Inquiry based learning is well suited for STEM topics and projects done in teams enable kids to learn 21st century skills.

To learn more about our company, please visit us on the web.

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Why deeper learning matters?

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When kids enjoy learning process, they become life long learners and can self-learn anything.

In America, 90% of the kids attend public

schools and only 38% end up getting college

degrees. Science and Technology innovations

are changing life for everyone, yet very little

interest to study STEM subjects. Motivation to

learn and academic performance declines as

kids are "processed in batches" from grade to

grade.

Technology and innovations have been the

foundations of American success, but we are

falling behind. Thought leaders and fortune

500 CEO have been concerned about our

education systems and its outcomes. Many

different ideas and strategies are implemented,

yet no visible progress is made.

College education is getting more expensive

and many students are graduating with more

debt and no prospects of getting a well paid

job. The gab between jobs available and

qualified workforce keep getting wider.

Benefits of Internet are accelerating

innovations. How do you prepare students for

the future that is mostly unknown?

NY Times columnist, Tom Friedman writes

“Average is officially over”. Showing up to

work and doing what is expected is no longer

enough or to keep employed. 21st century

workforce must bring new ideas, initiatives and

passion to innovate to work place. This cannot

happen unless kids start practicing

collaboration, critical thinking and innovative

ways to solve problems from young age.

After school programs – Building essential Skills for 21st century learning.

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Inquiry leads to close observation and hands on experiments enable kids to engage in deeper learning. This process is proven to retain most of what they learn.

We empower kids to engage in deep

learning, asking questions, exploring and

connecting information to make sense.

Our afterschool enrichment programs work

with kids in small teams and focus on...

Inquiry and Project Based learning (IBL &

PBL).

Real life examples and projects for

relevance.

Learning by experimenting and observation

in teams.

Continuous research to help students

& teacher/coach.

Promoting out of the box thinking.

Cross Connecting information across the

disciplines.

Learning should never be a boring process.

Our goal is to make learning a fun activity,

so kids develop self-learning habits and

become lifelong learners.

Critical thinking and connecting information

across disciplines seed new ideas.

Some of these ideas with dedication and

hard work will turn into great

innovations. We sincerely hope our

programs enable young minds to be great

innovators and BIG thinkers.

Collaborative team work forces kids to listen to each other, build on ideas and resolve conflicts to achieve common goals.

Program details and goals

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All our afterschool programs are once a week

for 60 minutes. Team time is well managed and

we ensure that kids are focused and be

productive. We expect kids to work 2-3 hours at

home to prepare, so team time can be used for

more collaborative activities.

Reflect on how everyone did since last

meeting and discuss ways to improve.

Work on team project – 45 minutes.

Identify issues, plan and discuss .

Assign tasks to be worked offline by

everyone.

Record the sessions to be used for

final video on the project.

Plan next week activities and offline

work to be done by everyone.

In session challenge

Discuss a topic that team will research and

learn at home.

Teaching content is no longer enough. Today’s kids need to learn how to learn to be successful in 21st century.

Cost of the program is $10/hour. 15 hours =

$150

Same as most

afterschool learning

programs.

We aim to achieve 95%+ satisfaction rating from parents and

kids.

Focus on tests and grades leads to learning for exams. Kids engaged in deeper learning will do good in tests with no extra effort.

Role of IBL coach/teacher and our hiring / training programs

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To enable a learner to process and internalize the concepts, facilitation and questioning is more important than giving away the answers to questions.

In collaborative team learning, teacher role is to enable the discovery process. Most critical skill for an effective IBL

coach is to put right questions at the

right time.

Listening to conversations and questions

is key to this process.

Let the conflicts arise in team discovery

process to find right answer. Conflicts

enable the team to form a hypothesis to

prove or disprove.

Give ample time to explore. Giving

clues and answers must be reserved only

when all other options are exhausted

completely.

IBL starts with

engaging

questions to

involve learner

in the learning

process.

• Look for passion in STEM

• Engaging questioning skills

Hiring right people

• Practice IBL/PBL with the team.

• Watch videos to learn IBL best practices.

Training

• Watch and learn other IBL teachers.

• Weekly cross-learning sessions.

Cross learning