Matt Goldenberg

Portland, Oregon Area United States

After School Instructor

I'm an entrepreneurial individual interested in the burgeoning field of e-education. In addition to having worked directly with troubled youth at City Year, I've developed my own character based education curriculums, using mediums such as magic or art to develop character traits associated with happiness and success. I was also involved in developing an experiment that tested the efficacy of one on one interventions to increase literacy rates, with my three students, I was able to increase fluency by an average of 23%, and 1 grade level. I've taken over 30 trainings on best practices in education, but 1 on 1 interventions still feel like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound. I beli...