i2 Month represents the next step in our vision of the future of education, expanding the immersive experience of STEM Week into a single one month project incorporating key principles across all major content disciplines. Over the four weeks of i2 Month, students are tasked with solving a real world challenge that has been designed so that the class works collaboratively and uses integrated age appropriate concepts from English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Art to be successful, just as engineers and problem-solvers do in the real world. With this in mind, all i2 Month programs require students to read and write, do numerical calculations, use new technologies, study history and government, create, take risks, and find an artistic ways to express themselves. The real world context of the challenge gives students purpose to their learning.
RESULTS TO DATE AND NEXT STEPS
After a successful inaugural program in five schools in 2017, we are excited to be running i2 Month in ten schools in fall 2018.
Road Map for Future Years
Five schools run i2 Semester, extending the i2 program from one month to half a school year
At least one school district spends an entire school year on one immersive, interdisciplinary i2 challenge replacing their entire subject specific curriculum