Curricula, built to be handed over
Image-first slides, lesson structure and teaching notes designed to work in low-bandwidth classrooms and be run by someone who did not write them.
What we do
We write English curricula in Japan and hand them to the people already teaching the students who need them.
01 The model
Materials travel further than teachers
Direct remote teaching needs every student to have a device, a connection and a scheduled hour. That is the constraint we kept running into, and it is not one a volunteer organisation in Japan can fix. Curricula do not have that constraint. A partner who already has the students in a room can run our materials without us in the call.
Delivered by local partners
Partner organisations and their teachers run the lessons. They know their students; we supply the structure and the materials.
Revised after every run
What the teachers report back becomes the next version. The curriculum improves because it has been used, not because we rewrote it.
02 Who writes them
The bar our mentors clear
Our mentors are 13–18. The qualification they hold is not a school award — EIKEN Grade 1 is an adult certification, and most adults who sit it do not pass. Every person who writes or reviews a curriculum has cleared all three of the following.
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EIKEN Grade 1
Passed across reading, writing, listening and speaking. An adult-level certification with a pass rate in the low teens.
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or TOEFL iBT 100+
The alternative route where EIKEN Grade 1 has not been taken.
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Interview and demo lesson
A one-on-one interview plus a taught demo, assessed on communication and teaching ability — not just on the certificate.