Embarc’s newest Impact Report unveils our community’s remarkable achievements over the past year. Through deep collaboration with students, schools, and partners, we saw our entire city become a classroom. Open our Impact Report to see more of our...
One of the biggest themes that arose from the rich discussions in this year’s all-school Embarc PD was that all young people deserve to have space and feel welcome in every place in their community. In just a few months of school, here are some of the ways our...
We’re thrilled to release Embarc’s 2021-22 Impact Report. In a year full of challenges, we worked to flip the narrative around schools by building space for joy. For Embarc, joy isn’t a way to ignore the injustices around us, but a tool to revolutionize the way we...
Originally published January 2020. At the beginning of the year, I joined my students an Embarc experience in West Loop Chicago at Brooklyn Boulders. I thought: what a great opportunity for my students to experience empathy in an authentic team-building way. Empathy...
Implementing data tools is one pillar of Embarc’s whole school model, which provides experiences, curriculum, and support for all students and adults in a school. By gathering feedback from students, educators, and school leaders, we can see where our model is most...
In-person experiences are back in action! Thursday, September 30 marked our first Embarc Experience Day in almost two years. The entire Chicago Tech Academy – nearly 400 students – left their school building and engaged in a set of brand-new and old...
