The Alvo Institute works with a range of schools that are interested in delivering high-quality, data-driven, technology enhanced, personalized learning for students. Alvo’s portfolio includes urban, suburban and rural public school districts, individual traditional public schools, public charter schools, independent schools, foundations and education advocacy and support groups.  The following are sample client engagements from Alvo’s portfolio of work:

Grimmway Academy is a public charter school located in Arvin, California. In 2011, Grimmway’s founding leadership team invited Alvo to help them design the Academy’s blended learning instruction model that best fit the needs of its students.  For the school’s launch in 2011, they decided on the Lab Rotational Instructional Design. Alvo is currently working with Grimmway to expand their model. In its first two years, Grimmway has out performed all other public elementary schools in Southern Kern County and for the last two years, has achieved the highest California test scores in Arvin’s history. To learn more about Alvo’s work with Grimmway, watch this video.

Alpha Public Schools is a new network of public charter secondary schools that aims to put middle school students on the path to college success – and keep them there. All Alpha students will develop not only the knowledge, but also the skills and character traits they will need to succeed in college and career. Alvo worked with Alpha Public Schools’ founder John Glover to plan and design his blended learning program. Glover used the design plan to share his vision with funders and stakeholders as well as to outline the major school development milestones such as building a team, hiring teachers and selecting technology. Watch the video to hear Glover speak about his work with Alvo.

Over the past three years, Alvo has worked with The Girard Education Foundation to help develop Activate Instruction.  Activate Instruction is an open platform where teachers can browse, search, rate, add, share, and organize their favorite Common Core-aligned resources, and put them together in personalized playlists for students. Parents and students can follow sets of resources teachers have prescribed, or search for the ones they like best. Activate Instruction is the only free curricular platform that enables school systems to personalize instruction according to student needs because it fully integrates with backend assessment systems. The technology allows curricular resources to link electronically to any school system’s student achievement data management systems.

Activate Instruction was created through a unique collaboration of educators from both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Illuminate Education, Inc., developed and continues to improve the software.. Summit Public Schools, a high-performing charter management organization, piloted Activate Instruction and provided user feedback to improve the technology. The Alvo Institute is providing implementation and professional development expertise. To learn more, watch this video.

Yeshivat He’Atid is a Jewish day school that is re-envisioning the Jewish day school classroom to incorporate 21st century educational approaches. He’Atid is the first Jewish Day School in the country to open with a fully blended instructional design where students access online content and traditional instructional activities through an in-class rotational model. Yeshivat He’Atid is the exemplar among Jewish Day School for providing a rigorous, affordable, bi-lingual instructional program in both secular and Judaic studies at one-third of the cost of neighboring schools.  He’Atid has created a replicable model that makes the unique program, only available at a Jewish day school, accessible to families from all economic backgrounds. Alvo is proud to have worked with the founding team to design and launch He’Atid.

KIPP Courage, Houston, TX

KIPP Courage College Prep opened in July of 2012 and serves approximately 200 college-bound fifth and sixth graders from Houston’s Spring Branch community. The school will expand by one grade level each year until it eventually serves nearly 400 5th- through 8th-grade students. KIPP Courage is part of the SKY Partnership between the Spring Branch Independent School District, KIPP Houston, and YES Prep. The academic and co-curricular programs at KIPP Courage will develop the academic skills, intellectual habits, and qualities of character that prepare students for high school and going to and through college. Alvo is currently working with KIPP Courage to develop its in-class rotational, lab and cross-curricular blended instructional design.

Hamilton County Community Unit 10 School District, McLeansboro, IL

Hamilton County Community Unit 10 School District is a rural school district located in McLeansboro, Illinois. The Alvo team is working closely with district leadership and teachers to help design a 21^st century district with technology enhanced classrooms for students. The first phase of the work will include using in-class rotational models in the elementary school to develop both cognitive and non-cognitive skills.  Alvo’s work, sponsored by The James Family Foundation, is part of a larger community centered initiative of economic revitalization in the McLeansboro area of Southern Illinois.

The following is a list of current and past Alvo clients: