Saturday, June 11, 2011

What is Building To Teach?

I've spent the last nineteen years designing and building effective and award winning educational and job training programs at the Alexandria Seaport Foundation (www.alexandriaseaport.org) Now, I am taking part of that work, the hands on math instruction, and introducing it to a nation of students in need of both an alternative to standard classroom instruction. They also need to know why math is useful.

I build things, sometimes boats, sometimes buildings, but always people. That's why this project is called Building to Teach - because that's what were doing. It's effective. It's how human beings learned math before there were textbooks. We need to get back to it.

Joe Youcha , Director
Building To Teach