We work with schools around the world to bring learning alive.
By helping educators increase student engagement and achievement, we are preparing our young people for success in the new innovation-based economy.
Our Purpose
We have experienced again and again that students can learn faster than they can be taught… when they have a reason to learn that connects to their own lived experiences and interests. This experience enables them to become empowered creative problem-solvers that the world needs.
Students sharing how it feels when learning comes alive.
When educators become authentic co-learners with their students, the learning culture fundamentally changes and together they build the courage to positively change the world. Through experiences that spark their own interests and curiosities, student engagement increases. Young people quickly build confidence and increase academic achievement when they realize that we truly believe in them and their potential as creative problem-solvers.
Empowered
We believe that there is an innate creative genius within each of us. To unleash it, we must create the conditions for learning to lead to personal meaning that inspires a collective purpose.
Neuroscience is now beginning to illuminate how this approach has the potential to ignite higher levels of creative performance by activating our core neural networks and creating the conditions for deeper learning.
The world needs creative learners who have been equipped to ask important questions; explore and generate scalable solutions; and collaborate across borders, languages, and cultures to implement those solutions.
Creative
“Working with the Catalyst team, we are unleashing the brilliance of my students and they are already changing the world.”
— Tina Bardwell, 8th Grade Science Teacher, OH
With the climate crisis causing a rapid loss of ecosystems and fertile land, a pervasive ambivalence to civil discourse, and unprecedented mental health challenges among our young people, the urgency for solutionary thinking is powerfully felt. Our young people are left at risk of feeling overwhelmed by the weight of responsibility for all this.
By using this approach and creating the conditions for creative thinking about local issues with global consequences, students tell us they feel empowered to create regenerative solutions to wicked problems.