What is MarcoPolo For Educators?

MarcoPolo For Educators is a groundbreaking, digital resource combining powerful educator tools with child-led explorations of videos and interactive activities. It consists of the Educator website [MarcoPolo For Educators, web-based] and the child-facing app [MarcoPolo For Families]. The Educator website offers flexibility in how you share video lessons with your students, allowing you to tailor content to fit your classroom needs. It also provides comprehensive Educator Guides, which offer valuable suggestions for extending learning beyond the screen—into other areas of the classroom and even at home. This combination of digital and offline resources makes it easy to create a well-rounded learning experience for your students. It provides you with the unique ability to bridge school to home by sharing personalized recorded video messages paired with video playlists with children and keeping families engaged in their child's learning outside the classroom. You’ll have opportunities to differentiate learning with the same great videos in different languages, such as Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and a Modified version, to scaffold the content and help all learners including English Language Learners. Children can follow their own interests on the app, through 850+ high-quality, research-based video lessons, engage in 3000+ contextualized learning activities, and make their own discoveries in the workshop, music, art, and theater rooms. On their journey, children build content knowledge, foundational skills, and engage with relatable characters who model social-emotional and 21st-century skills including critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, and communication. MarcoPolo For Educators uses a strengths-based approach to learning, so children build confidence through interest-led discovery of content that is safe to explore independently, and with your guidance. See the Product Overview here, which is also in the My Resources tab.