Website Update
AmazeWorks
Website Update
Project details
What we need
- Updates and/or fixes to the Organization’s existing website (e.g., update copy or images, fix bugs, integrate plugins or widgets, customize styles/themes, etc.)
- Training for the Organization's staff on how to update website content and resolve minor issues (if applicable)
What we have in place
- Our website is currently in Nation Builder. We have a document detailing suggestions for improvement and can provide photos and other media materials to embed.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,762 , allowing us to provide educational materials to schools and organizations that cannot afford them.
Our organization was selected by a marketing firm as their pro-bono client, and as a result, we are generating more traffic to our website. The marketing firm gave us suggestions for improving the usability of our site, which will ideally lead to more interest in our work and sales.
Project plan
Posted by
Melissa H.
Business and Operations Director
Our mission
AmazeWorks supports healthy identities, connected learning communities, and respect across differences by working at the intersections of anti-bias education theory, diversity and inclusion, and social-emotional learning. This enables children to feel secure in their abilities to take risks and problem solve and navigate an ever-changing world while building connections with each other.
AmazeWorks knows that curiosity and learning are possible when students feel respected and visible within their own and their family's identities and experiences. We know that healthy relationships with other students and teachers and feeling a sense of belonging are key to a student's ability to succeed.
What we do
AmazeWorks provides developmentally appropriate curricula, tools, and training for early childhood programs and elementary schools. These programs are based in research and best practices and built in community with authentic voices of community members, parents, administrators, and educators.
AmazeWorks programs, staff development, and consultation support teachers to:
* Assess classroom social dynamics through the eyes of students, looking for the early signs of isolation, targeting, and exclusion
* Provide effective prevention and intervention strategies that build connection and understanding where there was none
* Provide windows and mirrors through quality books that help students learn about each other while seeing themselves or their experiences reflected in classroom materials
* Initiate guided conversations about each other's lives and experiences
* Create safe, welcoming space for children to be curious and ask questions about differences
We do this by helping teachers build power within students and by enhancing knowledge, practice, and compassion among the adults who educate them.
Research shows that most teacher education programs do not provide the comprehensive training needed to help break down stereotypes and build community with respect and compassion across differences in today's diverse classrooms. Without this training, teachers can unintentionally pass along the biases and stereotypes within our society both directly and indirectly through tone, attitudes, and actions. We know that given practical tools and support, teachers will create a learning environment that values all students.
