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OneWorld Overview Equalizing Education for All

Observations of students at Uminathi Christian College in Camperdown, South Africa, helped form EqualEd’s plans.

IMAGINE a world where every child is afforded equal access to a quality education. Equal opportunity to learn, equal access to the highest quality instruction, and equal possibility to realize their abilities and help drive our world forward.

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Where we combine the highest quality curriculum with the most engaging, innovative technology to deliver the world’s most powerful and effective free education for all children ages 8-18.

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EqualEd’s OneWorld Learning Solution EqualEd’s OneWorld learning solution is a blend of an innovative learning platform leveraging the world’s latest technologies and simulations with an expertly-derived curriculum rooted in core competencies aimed at meeting teachers and students where they are today.

THE RESEARCH • A focus on STEM first • A solution for students and teachers THE TECHNOLOGY • Leveraging the most effective learning technologies THE CURRICULUM • Standards derived from most successful national and local education systems • Career readiness and core competencies • Global citizenship • Cultural and geographic diversity • Project based approach to learning and real world connections

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EqualEd’s OneWorld learning solution is a blend of an innovative learning platform leveraging the world’s latest technologies and simulations with an expertly-derived curriculum.

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EqualEd’s OneWorld: The Research The EqualEd Learning Solution is being built on a research foundation of best practices in technology, curriculum, and skill development aimed at building a solution for helping children be successful in the world of tomorrow, today. In collaboration with a team of pioneering global education leaders and universities, EqualEd has diligently worked to establish the research basis for EqualEd’s OneWorld Learning Solution.

EqualEd has partnered with educators, experts and students from across the globe to develop the OneWorld Learning platform and curriculum.

A focus on STEM first Research shows that there is a rapidly increasing number of STEM jobs to be filled over the next five years, yet there is a dwindling population of STEM graduates entering the workforce. That is why EqualEd’s learning solution is focusing first on STEM subjects for the middle years. By focusing on STEM first, EqualEd is promoting opportunities for future graduates, as well as economic growth for their communities.

Support for the student and the teacher Students and teachers around the globe have a multitude of challenges to face as the world’s global education crisis continues. That is why EqualEd’s OneWorld learning solution was built to meet students and teachers where they are today, with multiple modes of implementation and delivery, based on schools’ current infrastructure and technology. Robust teacher supports are built into every lesson, while students are guided through a personalized learning journey that’s available to them in and out of the classroom.

Expert STEM council In realizing its objective of providing the most innovative, engaging, and successful STEM learning experience to students around the world, EqualEd has assembled a Global STEM Council of experts and luminaries to help inform, guide, and construct the planning and development of OneWorld. EqualEd’s STEM Council is led by global education stalwart Charles Fadel, the Founder and Chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign.

The Council’s influence is leading directly to an active, project-based learning approach to core content that aligns to a set of global competencies that will help ensure that students become global citizens with skills to become productive members of a technology-driven world.

Teacher advisory council EqualEd has assembled a team of educators from around the world to advise on the development and creation of the OneWorld solution. From efficacy and achievement, to deliverability and ease-of-use, the EqualEd curriculum has been developed under the eye of the world’s most renowned educators.

Student advisory council Students age 8-18, from across the globe, have convened to advise on the engagement and relativity of the OneWorld middle grades STEM curriculum.

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EqualEd’s OneWorld: The Technology EqualEd’s OneWorld learning platform includes the latest in adaptive learning, virtual science simulations, and collaboration tools for students and teachers. Leveraging the world’s latest technology, EqualEd brings teachers around the world the support they need, to do the job they love.

Innovative technologies help make developing skills and content proficiency more engaging and personalized than with any other system, while allowing the product to be consumed by students in any setting, and used by any teacher in any school.

Collaboration tools allow communication with content experts around the world.

STEM Resource Center provides access to world class supplemental teaching resources such as videos, quizzes, activities and more. EqualEd’s OneWorld Learning Solution is delivered with a library of supplemental resources curated from some of the world’s best in class content providers. This STEM Resource Center will reach students and teachers from across the world by localizing and aligning supplemental STEM resources that augment the high-quality core instruction being delivered via the OneWorld platform, making high quality content easily discoverable and usable for teachers and students of all skill levels.

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EqualEd’s OneWorld collaboration tools teachers around the

learning platform includes the latest in adaptive learning, virtual science simulations, and for students and teachers. Leveraging the world’s latest technology, EqualEd brings world the support they need, to do the job they love.

The EqualEd team visits with students in Missourilaan Secondary School, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa as they study in their computer lab.

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EqualEd’s OneWorld: The Curriculum Grounded in expertly derived pedagogy, EqualEd’s OneWorld curriculum focuses on building real life competencies and the four dimensions of learning including knowledge, skills, character and meta learning.

Knowledge “What we know and understand” Interdisciplinarity Traditional (i.e., Mathematics) Modern (i.e., Entrepreneurship) Themes (i.e., Global Literacy)

21st Century Learner

Skills

Character “How we behave and engage in the world”

“How we use what we know”

Ethics Curiosity Courage Resilience Leadership Mindfulness

Creativity Critical thinking Communication Collaboration

META-LEARNING

“How we reflect and adapt” Metacognition Growth Mindset

Career Readiness and Core Competencies Career readiness is a critical issue facing our global society, which is why EqualEd’s learning solution is grounded in competency-based learning aimed at preparing students for the workforce. By focusing on key lifelong competencies and the connections across subject areas, students will develop the necessary abilities to be career-ready contributors to the world’s societies. Competencies such as critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and leadership are at the core of EqualEd’s OneWorld STEM curriculum, driving students toward success anywhere in the world.

Global Citizenship In today’s global world, there is an ever increasing need for students to think globally. A large part of EqualEd’s mission is to expose students to information and situations that will help them become thoughtful, productive global citizens and global learners, whether they aim to pursue a STEM career or know enough to become an enlightened consumer of STEM information. Through our relationship with the Center for Curriculum Redesign and Charles Fadel, we have analyzed and mapped the OneWorld curriculum to the world’s highest level of academic standards, identified key trends, and married that with 21st Century and competency based skills to develop a global blueprint for learning.

Project Based Approach to Learning and Real World Connections With EqualEd’s OneWorld learning solution, students gain knowledge and skills by investigating and responding to authentic, engaging and complex questions, problems, and challenges. Students apply cross-curricular STEM concepts to real-world challenges through an integrated learning model rooted in project-based learning. Utilizing EqualEd’s robust set of collaboration tools, students from all over the world will collaborate with one another to develop solutions to real challenges facing their local communities, while deepening their understanding of topics being learned.

Cultural and Geographic Diversity EqualEd’s OneWorld learning solution is rooted in developing students into global citizens and global thinkers. With a focus on skill, content, and projects that focus on cultural and geographic diversity, students of today will become prepared for the world of tomorrow.

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EqualEd’s OneWorld: The Curriculum: Science The EqualEd team has partnered with the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) to map a global set of standards around the world with the goal of developing a perspective on the best ways of delivering STEM instruction. Building on that work, EqualEd has collaborated with thought leaders to compile a scope and sequence that is based on a unique set of standards that map to the skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow.

The science curriculum is matched to the mathematics courses, which allows for cross-curricular projects and activities at the unit and course level. Within each, engineering and design practices are incorporated to help students develop the well-rounded set of skills needed to master STEM subjects.

Earth

Integrated Science: Age 11-12 Integrated Science: Age 12-13 Integrated Science: Age 13-14 Topic 1

Water Cycle, Weather, Climate

Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics *Sample Unit: Dynamic Earth

Universe & Our Solar System

Topic 2

Global Climate Change

Resource Availability

History of Planet Earth

Life

Topic 3

Natural Hazards

Topic 4

Cells & Body Systems

Photosynthesis & Respiration

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Sexual & Asexual Reproduction Ecosystems *Sample Unit: Heredity

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Physical

Topic 6

Resource Consumption Mutations Diversity of Life

Topic 7

Kinetic Energy & Collisions

Atoms, Molecules, & States of Matter

Motion & Forces *Sample Unit: Forces in Action

Topic 8

Heat & Heat Flow

Chemical Reactions

Energy

Every topic was designed around the 4D Competencies, was built and infused with geographic and cultural relevance, and includes instructional support for STEM Career Connections.

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EqualEd has collaborated with thought leaders to compile a scope and sequence that is based on a unique set of standards that map to the skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow.

EqualEd’s OneWorld: The Curriculum: Maths The EqualEd team has partnered with the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) to map a global set of standards around the world with the goal of developing a perspective on the best ways of delivering STEM instruction. Building on that work, EqualEd has collaborated with thought leaders to compile a scope and sequence that is based on a unique set of standards that map to the skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow.

The spiraling curriculum progresses areas of mathematical expertise each year, with increasingly complex projects to support the learning. Culminating activities at the end of each allow students to demonstrate their understanding in a performance-based design.

Maths Age 11-12

Maths Age 12-13

Maths Age 13-14

Unit 1

Whole Number Operations

Number Concepts

Number and Place Value

Unit 2

Decimals

Decimals

Algebraic Expressions

Unit 3

Fractions

Fractions

Linear Relationships

Unit 4

Integers

Coordinate Graphs

Percentages

Unit 5

Measurement

Area and Volume

Using Units of Measurement

Unit 6

Linear Equations

Geometric Reasoning

Geometric Reasoning

Unit 7

Geometry

Chance

Chance

Unit 8

Probability

Data Representations

Data Representations

Unit 9

Statistics

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EqualEd’s OneWorld: The Curriculum: Tech & Engineering EqualEd’s courses integrate core principles and processes of Technology and Engineering throughout all mathematics and science instruction. Based on a global inventory of vital Technology and Engineering curriculum and instruction, EqualEd’s coverage is innovative and unique. In order to develop a global group of students who are preparing themselves for future careers in STEM fields, students are learning technology and design principles in the context of math and science courses.

By actively working on projects that combine Technology and Engineering with job skills of the future and other 4D Competencies, students are engaging themselves in learning that will both address problems they find in their own communities and prepare them for jobs in the global arena.

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an extensive evaluation of global standards, CCR has developed best-in-class content mesh well with a competency-based set of skills.

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Equalizing Education for All

Lynda Cloud, CEO A seasoned education industry executive with over 25 years in the education space, Lynda has been leading the EqualEd team since early 2017.

Brent Taggert, CPO Now head of product development efforts at EqualEd, Brent most recently served as Head of Strategic Partnerships at Veon.

Christian Farley, CTO Most recently head of Engineering for the Connected Applications group of Sky – Christian manages the EqualEd platform and technologies team.

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Nicola Quinn, CFO With over 16 years of financial experience across several industry sectors, Nicola now leads the EqualEd finance team.

Brent McKenzie, SVP, Product & Strategy Over Brent’s 30-year career in education, he has been an international science teacher and science and technology curriculum developer. Brent now leads EqualEd’s content and product development strategy.