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The Science Backing Our Programs
Effort Plus Strategy Equals Success (Attribution Theory -- Weiner)
It would be irresponsible of us to create programs without using evidence based science that has proven results. So, we intentionally aligned all of our projects with evidence based strategies..
Bandura's Social Learning Theory
Bloom's Taxanomy (his 2004 edition)
Costa's Levels of Intellectual Functioning
The Scientific Method
Webbs Depths of Knowledge
Weiner's Attribution Theory
Interest Theory
Gardener's Intelligences
Sternbergs Intelligences
Attachment Thoery
Informational Processing Theory
Modern Modal Model
Marilyn Burns
Carol Dweck
Deci and Ryan
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky
and more!
Skinner
Kholer
Jerome Bruner
(and more!)
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Project Grit - nutrition, athleticism, and social sciences
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DONATE BUTTONS HAVE NOT BEEN ACTIVATED YET
Children who do not get the necessary academics do poorly later in life. Science supports this. Unfortunately, the state of New Mexico is one of many who ranks at the very bottom for literacy and child well being. At Curious Altruism, we believe that it is our civic duty to protect children who need us and to help them, their families, and communities by providing the assistance they need to rise out of darkness and live empowered lives for themselves and their progeny.
We intend to help people grow critical understandings in the areas of life science and social sciences. This program allows us to do that. We intend to use our science understanding to build community and empower teachers (and people going to school to be teachers), educational staff, parents, guardians, and children with education, resources, and support.
In this project we focus on nutritional and exercise literacy, building empathy, mental toughness, civic literacy, economic literacy, personal financial literacy. We also focus on communication skills and language development, data management, progress monitoring and more (nutrition, athleticism, and social sciences).
This program is a contracted agreement between us and whomever agrees to help us. Recipients will have their responsibilities. Each contract is 6 months long and each phase has different responsibilities and different levels of assistants. People can sign up for different phase periods, each phase period being dependent on the first... so they have to have completed phase 1 to do phase 2. Recipients can sign up for a maximum of 4 phases. This project is designed to gradually release responsibility to whomever we're helping (Pearson and Ghallager's Gradual Release of Responsibility). After the first 6 months they will start to build an understanding of avenues for passive income to support their love of education and empowering others or full time income in fields outside of education. We will help them develop an understanding of public speaking, ecommerce business building, marketing, applying for grants for assistance and more. If you're interested, please click "apply" to talk to a Liaison to get more information.
Each 6 month period will help whomever is receiving assistance get nutritional support in the form of valuable vitamins, athletic training like physical conditioning programs, assistance paying for gym memberships, and self-defense training (in some cases).
Children, parents, guardians, teachers and people going to school to be teachers, as well as educational support staff, will be expected to teach personal financial literacy, economics literacy, civic literacy (like US and World history, knowledge of how parties form in a free nation, and knowledge of the Bill of Rights and its history), speaking and listening skills, empathy (by fostering real human connection, modelling real empathy like active listening, teaching emotion vocabulary, encouraging curiosity instead of judgement, building emotional regulation skills, teaching repair and accountability, fostering community, teaching about perspective taking, different cultures, and the cruelty that many people have faced throughout the world and through time), nutritional and exercise science literacy, as well as social sciences like the science of mental toughness and growth mindset building. Our program will assist you with prepared lessons and vocabulary support for these concepts as well.
Apply
We're happy to send you more information. Just shoot us an email and we'll get back to you. Please note that we're applying for grants soon. When we qualify, our projects will begin soon after that. If we know you're interested, we can begin the interview process and maybe you'll qualify. Gotta apply to find out!
Project Curiosity
Come be part of the community! Nutrition, Art, Economics, and perosonal financial literacy
We believe that we need to get more people involved and to unmask the silent killer that is educational neglect! With this project, we intend to focus on creating a community, having 1-3 sessions on Thinkific a week ($3 a month for 1 session a week, $7 a month for 2 sessions a week, and $14 a month for three sessions), and courses that are available for parents, teachers, curious people, and children. A caring and supportive group of coaches and liaisons will also be present to answer questions, to build community, and to make sure that your voice is heard!
Everyone’s monthly dues help us pay the monthly Thinkific fees. It also helps fund our curiosity and satisfy our curiosity in the areas of art, economics, and personal financial literacy. We will feature one artist or economist (at first, and later maybe more) a month. We will pay him or her for their time, and pick their brains about their art and/or profession and how working to be successful has impacted their personal understanding of personal financial literacy.
Ultimately, the more people in the community, the more money we can pool together. We would like to have hundreds of thousands people in the community! Can you imagine? We might be able to function without bending backwards for grants.
People that play together stay together! Let's do this!
Project Hope
Emotional and Physical Neglect is Educational Neglect
This project is for finding housing and providing hope. We believe that no child should be homeless and that every parent should be able to raise their children in a safe and loving environment.
We also intend to create housing opportunities for aspiring teachers who are currently on a path towards licensure to teach.
We will begin this project once Grit and Curiosity have stable foundation. We hope that we can begin after our first successfu year in action.
More information to come.
Join the community and/or subscribe to our newsletter for more information.
Project Liberty
When people feel under appreciated, doing the work is tough.
This is a project that focuses on getting teachers more money and more recognition. We focus on teaching an awareness of what teachers actually do and why we need educational staff to ensure the success of our children.
We will be using our data to recognize first, second, and third place for teachers and education staff, and we will be aiming to make a national teacher pay that ensures that teachers are recognized for their work. We're thinking that a first year teacher should be getting paid at least $100,00 starting pay... they also need a health stipend (so they can use modern psychology to ensure that ALL children are healthy) and a materials stipend as well... and that is just the start.
If you're interested, when we begin this project, we'll let you know how things are going on our newsletter and the YouTube we create once grants start coming in.