EDC’s collaborative process brings together scientists, researchers, educators, creative artists, media and technology specialists, and intended users—from young children to the elderly—to design, test, refine, and disseminate high-quality curricula, trainings, interventions, and other resources.
We create professional development and continuing education programs for busy practitioners, open-source online courses that reach hundreds of thousands of budding entrepreneurs around the world, and digital tools and applications that promote basic literacy and health.
Our work demonstrates that the best learning integrates knowledge and experience to empower individuals with critical skills and to achieve sustainable improvements in services and systems.
Learn about EDC’s work to strengthen early childhood interventions with Continuous Quality Improvement.
Resources
EDC’s Biology: Concepts and Practices, a yearlong high school course curriculum, fosters grade 9–12 students’ scientific and data literacy; builds their reading, writing, and oral communic
This fact sheet describes the importance of equity in STEM education.
This report provides an overview of EDC’s Elementary Science Summit.
This report spotlights how Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital is using the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit to identify and address elder mistreatment.
This special issue provides concrete tools and strategies for identifying and responding to elder mistreatment in a variety of settings.
These stories from a faces behind the success of the Akazi Kanoze 2 work readiness program in Rwanda.
This fact sheet describes the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit. The toolkit supports health systems and communities in improving the safety and well-being of older adults.
EDC and the Massachusetts Community Colleges & Workforce Development Transformation Agenda (MCCWDTA) are working to transform developmental and adult basic education.
This study examines First 10 Schools and Communities—coordinated efforts to improve teaching, learning, and care during the first decade of children’s lives.
This series of three engaging, animated videos presents some key considerations and potential pitfalls to avoid in choosing and using an effective curriculum.