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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

T-share

One-line solution summary:

Social-collaborative platform that empowers teachers to evolve their teaching methods.

Pitch your solution.

Teachers from all over the world are struggling to teach online with traditional teaching methods. As a result, student engagement suffers as they are not maximizing their potential. T-share is a social-collaborative platform where teachers can easily find engaging planning lessons and pedagogical resources shared by colleagues who have proven to motivate their students in their learning process, so other teachers can replicate their impact. In this way, if T-share is scaled globally, teachers will have access to the content of the best teachers around the world, so it's easier for them to adapt and evolve their classrooms in order to satisfy student's needs and promote a real change in education.

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What specific problem are you solving?

Teachers from all over the world are struggling to teach online with old-school teaching methods. In fact, according to Unesco, 81% of teachers feel unprepared to teach online. This added to the fact that 6 out of 10 teachers are feeling overworked and underappreciated (National Union of Teachers) and, on top of that, they have a wage penalty of USD 7,500 (The Global Teacher's Status Index), we can affirm that the school system is living a pandemic on its own which is negatively impacting the quality of education.

What is your solution?

T-share is a revolutionary online platform that combines training with social media interactions to support teachers to:

Uplevel their classes.
Reduce their workload.
Increase their job satisfaction.We achieve this with our:

Community: an open collaboration platform where teachers can share and filter activities by course, subject, 21st-century skill, and additional-curricular information. Also, they can follow their favorite teachers, comment on the activities and even edit them to promote continuous improvement.

Academy: a marketplace of online courses created by universities, and other educational organizations to promote lifelong learning skills in teachers, who later share their new knowledge with the community.

Also, we give 10% of our profits to the teachers who create more value in the community, recognizing and incentivizing them to share their content in the community.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Our solution serves k-12 school teachers. The main factor why teachers don't innovate more in their classrooms is because they are feeling overworked which translates into having no time to create new material, and also because they are unmotivated to do classes differently since they don't have other professionals references of success. We understood this by interviewing and being in the classroom with more than a hundred teachers who helped us getting into this stage of T-share. Our solution addresses these issues by decreasing their workload with ready-to-use lessons provided by other teachers with proven results and increasing their motivation thanks to our incentive system, which allows them to uplevel their classes and co-create meaningful learning experiences.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Support teachers to adapt their pedagogy, facilitate personalized instruction, and communicate with students and their families in remote and hybrid settings.

Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.

T-share aligns with supporting teachers to adapt their pedagogy by providing the community and training needed to support teachers in their professional development journey with a model that incentives and recognizes their efforts to update their teaching methods, and by creating network effects needed to truly make a larger impact in education.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Santiago, Chile

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model.

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

We received USD$40,000 of government funds to develop the platform, and we have piloted it in 14 different schools in the Metropolitan Region of Chile.

We also launched the Academy a month ago with the first online course that is generating revenue in order to validate our business model.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Melania Sanhueza Silva