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Who Are the Partners Behind WPSA?
World Problem Solvers Agency Founder: Peter H. Reynolds
Children¹s advocate and New York Times Best-selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H. Reynolds is a trusted name in education and educational technology. For more than two decades he has inspired people of all ages to pursue authentic, life-long learning. Through his constructivist educational software (Stationery Studio, Animation-ish) and his award-winning books (The Dot, Ish, The North Star), published in over 20 languages, along with his literary
co-creations (Judy Moody, Someday, Little Boy, Wings of EPOH,
Free to Be You and Me), Peter has touched the lives of millions around the globe.
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FableVision
Founded in 1996 by identical twin brothers Peter and Paul Reynolds, FableVision is an educational media developer and publisher on a mission to bring the world to a better place through media, storytelling and technology. FableVision tells “stories that matter, stories that move”—helping all learners reach their full potential.
FableVision works with partners to help them achieve their goals of engaging learners through meaningful media. With headquarters at the Boston Children's Museum, and offices in Dedham, MA; Portland, OR; and London, the FableVision team enjoys an international reputation for its innovative, technology-delivered educational products.
FableVision will take the lead in designing, building, and promoting the online community nationally and internationally.
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Generation YES
GenYES is an innovative program that creates 21st century leaders and learners. GenYES students help teachers use technology in classrooms, supporting effective technology integration school-wide.
GenYES is the only student-centered research-based solution for school-wide technology integration. Students work with teachers to design technology-infused lessons and provide tech support. The resulting collaboration provides the students with project-based learning and the teachers with on-site, sustainable technology integration support.
GenYES will help ensure pilot schools activate and use WPSA, and will provide field research from their digital media literacy efforts as we design the WPSA program.
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National History Day
The National History Day program promotes systemic educational reform related to the teaching and learning of history in America's schools. Students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries and research papers based on research related to an annual theme. These projects are then evaluated at local, state, and national competitions.
NHD will share its best practices for engaged project-based learning, contribute to development of the guides and support resources, and in the long term co-develop a WPSA module focused on history and civics.
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One Laptop Per Child
OLPC’s mission is to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
OLPC will consult and review during the Prototype phase and will provide a global platform to extend the WPSA mission worldwide.
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Constructivist Consortium
The Constructivist Consortium includes leading educational technology publishers committed to student empowerment, creative applications of computers and the availability of high-quality open-ended materials. It understands that knowledge results from socially constructed experiences.
The CC will provide access, information and support for organizational and creation tools that support WPSA preproduction, production and digital publishing/webcasting.
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Cisco Systems
Cisco is deeply engaged in the effort to help bring education into the 21st century and prepare our nation's students to become members of the global workforce.
Cisco’s infrastructure provides an existing "footprint" into the K–12 space. Cisco will assist with marketing, and Charles Fadel, Global Lead, Education, will consult on 21st Century Skills.
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