Levels of Involvement
ECRC is not a get rich scheme. However, for the educators involved, it has led to excellent professional opportunities, the winning of thousands of dollars in grant funds, teaching satisfaction, great participant impact, growth in professional status, fun with community experts and summer jobs that are cool and fair. Join us by
contacting us. These are the different ways that you can get involved:
Level I: ECRC Member
ECRC welcomes all who are interested in discussing and working toward improving student motivation through new and current knowledge. An ECRC member simply joins the virtual community and automatically receives our quarterly newsletter and notification with access of events to our forums discussing modern day learning and motivation. Join us to discuss such simply but important questions as "What is the most motivating action you have ever taken with your students?"
Level II: ECRC Supporter
ECRC members are encouraged to go further and accept our invitation to educators, professionals and hobbyists. (See:
Invitation to Researchers and Professionals) A member becomes a supporter when he or she begins to work with the ECRC management team to match expertise to participant actions. This match utilizes the
Motivator Map for Educators template to create a map piloting in a live setting. The live setting allows our management team to implement our 21:1 hourly development plan (21 hours of development for 1 hour of participant action). Supporters can also utilize our world portal to upload their suggested Motivator Map for final editing and testing.
Level III: ECRC Sponsor
The creation of one supporter Motivator Map or Action Pack, where experts in their field and educators work together, can ultimately lead to a sponsor level project. A sponsor level project occurs when the ECRC team, the expert, and the educator can work together to identify funding or resources to make a larger goal both practical and rewarding. In our experience, this commitment to collaboration does take the team from individual interactions to an organizational level where meaningful grant funds can be pursued.
Level IV: Outreach Collaboration
Many professional researchers and organizations would like to be solid supporters of education, but also need a practical path to translate their work into youth learning actions that also is sensitive to researchers' time constraints. ECRC can work with an outreach effort, while being sensitive to the reality of time available for education outreach, by bringing its templates and experience to any researcher or organization wishing to bring their expertise to the K-12 learning community. Our
Management Team will work with community experts and researchers to translate their current work into active, doable actions that both educate and excite young people about learning "real world" knowledge. Our pursued objectives respect professionals' workloads while working within a specific education budget. We welcome contacts to achieve such outreach collaboration.