Presentation with Jennifer Dyck-Sprout

Today, Jennifer Dyck-Sprout, the Implementation Manager of Everfi came to visit us.


Jennifer has worked in the New York School Division, and had a lot to tell us about the school system in the states and specifically, New York. She also told us all about charter schools, which are somewhere between public and private schools. They are publicly funded, but are available at no cost to students. To get into a charter school, a student's number needs to be pulled in a lottery. For many low-income families, the chance of going to a charter school means a chance to go on to college or university.


It is expected that all of these students will go on to university, since they have great outcomes for their students. On the other hand, charter schools put the public school system at a disadvantage, as it somewhat leaves the public school system in the dust. It sounds really interesting, and I'll have to do a bit more research on charter systems. Jennifer suggested watching the movie "Waiting for Superman" on Netflix, which touches on this debate.


Another thing Jennifer told us all about is Everfi, the company she works for. Everfi is a company that partners with fortune 500 companies in order to bring technology into the school system. It has digital courses on financial education, digital education, substance abuse prevention, and civic education. I tried out one of the financial education courses and it was pretty great!


It sounds like a cool program and I'll have to look into it more!