The curriculum is written. The evidence is not.
Thirteen finished school years, 468 weeks of material, free to anyone who wants them, and teachers already using them. What we cannot show you is a single measured classroom, because no program with a roster has run and nothing has been evaluated. That is the honest position, and closing it is the only thing we are asking anyone for.
So this page leads with what we are not claiming, then shows you the public record, then gives you a form. If you are doing diligence, everything you need is on the way down.
Four ways in
What would actually help
Host the first measured classroom
Every workbook and teacher guide is finished, mapped to California standards, and free to download today, and teachers are already using them on their own. What does not exist is a classroom running one with a roster, a pre and post, and somebody watching. We are looking for the first few.
What a pilot involvesHost the first cohort
We are looking for one school district willing to host the first cohort. Eight weeks of one summer: a room, a schedule, and permission to teach. Nothing is bought and nothing past that summer is signed for, though what we are building is four of them with the same students. Cindy Ha, the founder, will teach the first herself rather than hand a district a binder and wish it luck.
Read the askFund the first cohorts
We are pre-cohort. There are no outcome numbers to show you and we will not dress up the ones we do not have. What we can show you is the finished curriculum, the evaluation design we have already committed to in public, and a clean record you can pull up without asking us. Tell us what you would need to see and we will send it, or say plainly that it does not exist yet.
Tell us what you need to seeOpen a door
The materials are free and they stay free, so there is nothing to buy and nothing to sponsor. The single most useful thing anyone can do right now is forward this to one teacher or one principal who might want to try a year of it.
Introduce us to someoneRead this first
What we are not claiming.
A funder who finds one inflated claim rereads every other claim differently, including the true ones. So this list comes before the pitch rather than after it.
- No cohort has run. We publish no outcome statistics, no engagement figures, and no claim about test scores.
- No usage figures. Teachers have told us they use the free material and we are glad of it, but an inbox is not a roster, so there is no number here and there will not be an estimate.
- No district, school or city named as a user of these materials. A teacher downloading a free PDF has not asked to be associated with us, and neither has her employer.
- No partner districts. We have not delivered a program in a school, and we will not name a district we do not serve.
- No testimonials. A quote goes on this site only with written permission from the speaker, or from a guardian for a minor.
- No advisory board. A person is named only after agreeing in writing, with a current title they would state themselves.
- No credential of any kind. Young Innovators for Change grants no degree, no credit, no certificate, and holds no articulation with any institution.
Check us
The public record.
Young Innovators for Change is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation (EIN 33-1544346), listed in IRS Publication 78. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Get in touch
Say hello in three lines.
Who you are, what you are looking at, and what would be useful. Whether you run a classroom, a foundation, or neither, this form goes to a monitored inbox rather than a ticket system. Tell us what you would need to see and we will send it if it exists, or say so if it does not.
Common questions
The things people ask.
Including the two that are least comfortable to answer.