Age of Learning Charitable Foundation

The Age of Learning Foundation focuses on six key objectives:

1. Provide children the opportunity and support they need to achieve foundational literacy and numeracy through mastery learning.

2. Help teachers become highly effective one-to-one tutors who can serve the unique learning needs of all children in a conventional classroom.

3. Increase the agency and participation of families as they contribute by reinforcing at home the quality learning experiences their children enjoy at home.

4. Support schools as they transform themselves into mastery learning centers of excellence.

5. Facilitate education ministry efforts as they build institutions and adopt policies, funding mechanisms,
and delivery practices that sustainably secure mastery learning for children at scale.

6. Develop an ecosystem of active stakeholders that work collectively to eliminate the barriers that may prevent children from experiencing mastery learning.

Ending learning poverty will require education systems to radically transform learning. Classrooms will need to sharply pivot away from standardized methods and adopt personalized approaches that focus on and prioritize mastery learning.

Children need the space and time to engage in productive struggle, grasping knowledge and building skills in their own way and at their own pace. They need to be supported by curricula, pedagogical, and assessment strategies that enable them to master and demonstrate what they learn at a high level.

Unfortunately, the conventional approach to schooling does not readily support mastery learning. The rigid, fast-paced nature of proficiency learning leaves teachers no choice but to teach to the imaginary middle. The needs of children at the margins are therefore rarely met.

The good news today is that technology acceleration during this fourth industrial revolution has gifted the world with adaptive personalized mastery learning solutions that help children find their "learning flow" in what Lev Vygotsky, the Soviet child psychologist, called the Zone of Proximal Development. The introduction of these solutions also gives educators the space, time, and opportunity they need to become effective tutors who can help accelerate learning. Families at home can likewise benefit as engagement with the digital solutions and recommended offline activities helps to increase their agency and participation in their children's learning experiences.

The Age of Learning Foundation is therefore partnering with ministries of education to bring adaptive mastery learning solutions and associated professional development and institution building support to classrooms, schools, and education systems at no cost. We serve as an R&D partner to assist education systems as they take the bold journey to help classrooms, schools, and homes become mastery learning centers of excellence.

The foundation partners with ministries of education and implementing organizations to pilot, evidence, and scale mastery learning programs. Initiatives designed to blend the best of technology, teaching, and tabletop (family participation) to personalize the learning experience. So that children successfully grasp the knowledge and gain command of the skills they need to achieve foundational literacy and numeracy.

The Foundation partners with philanthropic individuals, companies, institutions, and donor organizations to help fund the needs of country-level programs and support the process of scale from piloting to mainstream adoption.

Our digital mastery learning solutions make learning fun, accessible, and achievable. They provide children a personalized gamified and adaptive learning environment where children in Kindergarten (ECD) through 4th Grade can progress, in their own way and at their own pace, from no knowledge of numbers and letters to being able to mathematical tasks, and reading grade-level appropriate words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Our professional development and institutional building expertise adequately supports teachers, schools, and ministries as they work to build excellence in the delivery of mastery learning.

The Age of Learning Foundation is proudly reaching over 15 million children through educational television programs in 7 countries.

Our English language learning program currently serves over 160,000 children in Central America.

Our fledgling math mastery program has reached 10,000 children in Costa Rica.