Get each student’s parents, relatives and approved family friends intimately engaged in their child’s development.
Create a culture of accountability around each student. Establish periodic check-in systems where detailed progress updates will be distributed to classmates, teachers, counselors, principals, parents, relatives and family friends.
Increase each student’s motivation. Through surveys of students, parents and principals we found that students lacked interest in school mainly because they could not visualize its relevance to their lives as adults. Akwai gives hands on experience in the necessary attributes for potential career paths.
Increase the student’s likelihood of receiving some sort of financial aid for postsecondary education. High school graduates with full (or even partial) financial aid are more likely to continue learning.
Accumulate large amounts of meaningful data that will help us measure the impact of this initiative and display it in easy to understand formats.