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Piloted at Central Gwinnett High School, Lawrenceville.

Knowing which students are struggling is the easy part. EdgeUCoin is what you do about it.

An 18-week program where students earn coins for real, adult-verified change in academics, behavior, and one goal worked on at home, then redeem them for real rewards that matter. Every coin is signed off by a teacher, a family member, and a facilitator. Schools bring the students, and the community funds the rewards.

In a 2023 pilot with the Central Gwinnett High School Black Knight Football Team

67%Jan 9–31, 2023
92%Feb 1–28, 2023

positive behavior feedback, in one month1

1Measured in the EdgeUCoin pilot with the Central Gwinnett High School Black Knight Football Team. Baseline 1/9/2023–1/31/2023: 233 of 350 logged feedback entries were positive (67%). Follow-up 2/1/2023–2/28/2023: 681 of 739 entries were positive (92%). Entry volume rose between the two windows, so they are not a matched sample. This is the result of one pilot with one team, and is not a prediction or guarantee of results at any other school.
A teenage student in a gray zip hoodie and a pink headband stands behind a wooden desk in front of a navy stage curtain, speaking toward the camera. Two tablet boxes, a shoe box, and a gift card are lined up on the desk.
A student in the EdgeUCoin Rewards Program, Central Gwinnett High School, 2023 to 2025. The eighteen weeks grew out of it.

How a coin is earned

A coin is proof, not a prize.

  1. Earn.

    Every student sets goals in three areas: academics, behavior, and one goal worked on at home. Coins come from real, measured improvement against that student’s own starting point, not from promises and not from where they began.

    Student dashboard
    Jordan R.Grade 11Week 7 of 18

    My coins

    340

    coins earned

    +50 this week

    Growth against week 1

    • GPA2.42.9

    • Attendance78%91%

    • Behavior goals met61%88%

    Coins follow verified growth against this student’s own week-1 baseline.

    Sample student dashboard: a coin balance beside the verified growth that earned it.

  2. Verify.

    This is the SET model, and it’s what makes a coin mean something. Three roles keep a coin honest. The Student does the work. On the school side, a teacher signs off the weekly goals and a facilitator confirms the workbook and sets the coins. At home, a parent or family member confirms the family goal. No self-report, and no single adult carrying it alone.

    Verification queue

    This week’s sign-offs

    Week 7

    • Weekly goals: Algebra IISchool · Ms. Alvarez, teacherVerified
    • Attendance78%91%School · Coach Reed, facilitatorVerified
    • Home goal: read 20 minutes nightlyFamily · Parent or guardianAwaiting

    2 of 3 sign-offs

    The Student logs the work. The coin is set only once the School and the Family have both confirmed it. No self-report.

    Sample verification queue: a teacher, a facilitator and a family member each signing off separately.

  3. Redeem.

    Coins become real rewards a student chose and worked toward. The reward follows the growth. It never comes first.

    Reward marketplace

    Rewards

    340 coins

    • Basketball sneakersShoes520coins
    • Wireless headphonesElectronics300coins
    • TabletElectronics450coins
    • Team dinner nightExperience240coins

    Basketball sneakers340 of 520 coins

    180 more coins to your top reward

    Sample reward marketplace: four rewards, each carrying a coin cost, and progress toward the one this student chose.

A representative view of the EdgeUCoin platform. The student, the figures, and the rewards shown are samples chosen to show how the screens work. They are not a live account and not a record of any real student.

This is one program, eighteen weeks, built so the reward always trails the effort. See how the eighteen weeks work.

Build it with us

EdgeUCoin runs on people who show up.

It started with one team at one school. What comes next is bigger than a single pilot, and it takes three kinds of people: schools willing to bring the program to their students, funders willing to stock the rewards, and volunteers willing to tutor, mentor, and help build it. If that’s you, start here.

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