Educators use Imagineerz across multiple initiatives.
Each implementation starts with a local priority – and gives students opportunities to practice the desired skills in real-time
Different facilitators, schedules, and local priorities. The same shared language, productive struggle, and hands-on problem solving.
Trusted by schools and districts
Mountain View Whisman SD
St. Nicholas Catholic School
Ocean Air Elementary
Altus Schools Audeo Charter
Menifee USD
UP Academy
Schoolwide durable skills
Amy Imai Elementary
Mountain View, California
K–5
grade levels
1000+
students
Objective
Strengthen shared growth-mindset language and tools across the school community.
Implementation
Classroom teachers use Imagineerz across multiple grades with their students.
What changed
The principal and teachers report seeing students use the shared language and stick with problems longer.
“The skills Imagineerz focuses on are the ones I want to see most in my students: problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration.”
Carol Braunstein
First Grade Teacher · Amy Imai Elementary School
Summer learning
Mountain View Whisman School District
Mountain View, California
9
schools
1500+
students
Objective
Put Portrait of a Learner competencies into practice.
Implementation
YMCA staff facilitate Imagineerz for summer-school students, bringing STEM and durable-skill practice to expanded learning.
What changed
Students are more excited to attend summer school and enjoy taking on challenges while learning to solve problems.
“They [students] need to practice being frustrated and persevering through obstacles. Programs like Imagineerz do this directly in an engaging, memorable way.”
Geoffrey Chang
Former Principal, Now Director of Federal, State, and Strategic Programs · Mountain View Whisman SD
Districtwide expanded learning
Menifee Union School District
Menifee, California
26
classrooms
500+
students
Objective
Bring purposeful STEM and durable-skill practice into the district’s after-school program.
Implementation
After-school staff facilitate ready-to-run Imagineerz lessons across elementary sites.
What changed
500+ students across 26 classrooms now have consistent practice solving problems, collaborating, and persevering if their first idea fails.
The setting can change without diluting the student experience.
Imagineerz can be facilitated by classroom educators, specialists, after-school teams, substitutes, or parent volunteers.
STEM Enrichment
St. Nicholas Catholic School · Los Altos Hills
Science educators facilitate Imagineerz for all students, supplementing the core curriculum with high-engagement design challenges.
STEM + Active SEL Co-Instruction
Ocean Air Elementary School · San Diego
Counselors and innovation technologists co-teach across grades, integrating STEM and durable skills while supporting classroom educators.
Innovation Curriculum
UP Academy
The robotics coach teaches Imagineerz to students in all grades during the innovation block. UP Academy reports seeing a huge difference in students’ SEL skills.
Family Engagement
Regional Office of Education #47 · Sterling, Illinois
District staff facilitate Imagineerz at a parent-education event and share lessons families can use to build creativity, confidence, and resilience.
Home-School Connection
Audeo Kids · San Diego
Educators facilitate lessons for students and parents together, deepening family engagement in STEM and durable skills.
Teacher Collaboration Time
De Vargas Elementary · San Jose
Substitutes and parent volunteers rotate Imagineerz lessons across grades, creating collaboration time for grade-level teaching teams.
A growing community of implementers.
Amy Imai Elementary · Audeo Kids · Benjamin Bubb Elementary · UP Academy · De Vargas Elementary · Ocean Air Elementary School · Gabriela Mistral Elementary · Menifee Union School District · Mountain View Whisman School District · Regional Office of Education #47 · St. Nicholas Catholic School · Stevenson PACT Elementary