Be Great Together

Begreat Together empowers teachers within their leadership and inspires students to become the leaders that they are by providing funding to teacher and student nominated k-12 programs, offering ongoing programming and technical assistance, and establishing school-to-community partnerships that create sustainability. Begreat's signature program development support for teachers and students focuses on 5 components: funding, strategic planning, goal setting, leadership development, and partnership development. Additionally, begreat focuses on narrative transformation through storytelling that sheds light on community impact. (continued on schedule o)since our october 2021 launch, begreat's program development approach has gained an overall 98% growth in proficiency and/or practices of partnered school programs and initiatives. $60,000 has been distributed to school partners since 2021. Begreat's partnerships include the global academy at Kansas city public schools, success academy at anderson, metropolitan community college, center academy for success, and paseo academy high school. Begreat partnered with the global academy, who supports recently arrived immigrants and refugees for up to one year after arrival, to create the multilingual library, which provides books in students' native languages to foster continued literacy development. To date, 389 book titles and 710 physical books have been added to the library. 95% of students have expressed an increased ability to read and communicate in their native language. Begreat also helped the global academy create a project called "future reflections of success". This project gave youth with immigrant or refugee background the opportunity to hear professional success stories from industry leaders who also have an immigrant or refugee background. Begreat partnered with the success academy to create a family and consumer sciences ('facs') class that teaches life skills that relate directly to the real world. Through supporting facs, begreat formed an official partnership with metropolitan community college, which will provide applicable begreat partner programs and students with the potential to earn professional certifications before graduation. Begreat partnered with architectural design institution multistudio and center academy's computer modeling and design program as they supported student's knowledge regarding 3d printing and design, related to the field of architecture. Being teacher and student led, this program provides growth and empowerment towards utilizing technology and design to applicable industries. Bridging school-to-community partnerships is vital to begreat's program development model. A part of aiding in this process is promoting the inclusion of parents along the student educational journey. Paseo academy's dual language program has held that same value from inception. A key begreat program support best-practice is identifying and coordinating champions both internal and external to school partners. Begreat has been provided the opportunity to support teachers and students of dual language who have begun their process of engaging parents and community at-large. Financial technology company, capway, and begreat have partnered to provide food to students in underserved communities while also teaching them about money through our digital financial literacy program, phunds. The partnership is missioned to provide students with two key elements needed for a chance at a brighter future food and finance. Students take modern, relatable financial education modules through phunds via mobile app or website. Students gain rewards points for each financial literacy module they complete and use their rewards to "purchase" food, toiletries, and other necessities in the capway store located inside of the school. Students can fill up an entire bag per week.