Programs
One program. Eighteen weeks. Three things it measures.
This is the page to read before deciding whether to give EdgeUCoin a place in your calendar. It sets out what the eighteen weeks are, what they measure, what your school would take on, and the one result the program has actually produced.
What it is
A cohort, three goals each, and eighteen weeks of the same three goals getting harder.
EdgeUCoin runs one program. A cohort of students works a weekly cycle for eighteen weeks: each student sets goals in three categories, adults confirm the work behind them, and coins follow the change that was measured rather than the effort that was promised.
Three categories, and the same three all the way through.
Educational Competency
Academic goals are set against a student's own starting point rather than against the class, and a coin follows measured improvement on them. A facilitator confirms the workbook before any of it counts.
Family Engagement
One of every student's goals is worked on at home, and a parent or family member confirms it themselves. No coin is released on the school's word alone, which is what makes the family a signer rather than an audience.
Behavioral Improvement
Behavior goals are set with the student, logged weekly, and signed off by the adults who see them every day. It is the pillar the 2023 pilot measured, and the numbers it produced are published with their denominators.
Attendance is part of the behavior goal rather than a category of its own, because a student who is not in the room is not meeting a behavior goal either.
What changes across the eighteen weeks
Weeks 1 to 3
Discovery. Students work a provisional goal while they work out what a real one looks like for them. Those weeks count toward the program rather than warming up for it.
Week 3
Goals lock for the rest of the cycle, and a family adult endorses the one worked on at home. The goals do not change again, which is the point: the same three get harder rather than easier.
Weeks 4 to 18
The weekly cycle runs against locked goals, measured against each student's own week-1 baseline rather than against the rest of the room. A student who starts furthest back has the most to gain.
How a coin is earned, verified and redeemed is set out in full. See how it works.
What each side brings
Your people and your calendar. Our curriculum and our infrastructure.
Three parties make an eighteen-week cycle work, and the split is deliberate. A school is not buying a service, and EdgeUCoin is not asking a school to fund one.
EdgeUCoin brings
- The eighteen-week curriculum, and a student workbook for every week of it.
- Session guides written for whoever runs the room, so a facilitator is never improvising a week.
- The verification structure that keeps a coin honest, and the record of who confirmed what.
- Safeguarding and crisis resources built into the weeks rather than bolted onto them, because a program that asks students what is really going on has to know what to do when it hears an answer.
Your school brings
- A place in the calendar, and a room.
- An adult to run the sessions, and a teacher who sees the students weekly.
- Your counseling team, connected to the program rather than surprised by it.
- The students. A cohort is small on purpose.
The community brings
- The rewards students work toward, funded by people and businesses outside the building.
- That is the arrangement, not a detail of it: the rewards are not paid for out of your school's budget.
What it has produced
One pilot, one team, one month, and both denominators.
A first cycle is deliberately small: a single cohort of roughly 25 to 30 students, one eighteen-week run, with the adults around them doing the verifying. The one measured result EdgeUCoin owns came out of a cohort that size.
In 2023, a cohort of football players ran their own version of an earlier EdgeUCoin program. This is what the adults around them logged.
The two windows are not a matched sample, and the reasons that matters are set out with the chart. See what one pilot measured.
In a 2023 pilot with the Central Gwinnett High School Black Knight Football Team
positive behavior feedback, in one month1
What happens next
If this belongs in your building, the next step is a conversation.
What that takes is a cohort, a place in your calendar, and the adults who would run it. The page below sets out what a school takes on, and what EdgeUCoin needs from the people around it.