Wolverine Venture Fund

Overview

¡COMPÁRTELO, HÁBLALO, ENSÉÑALO!\\A2LP teaches undergraduates how to teach Spanish to 3rd and 4th graders in Ann Arbor Public Schools. We're a big program! We teach nearly 2,000 students per week, and we're in more than 75 classrooms and 19 schools. Each year we have about 75 undergraduate students, whom we call Language Teaching Assistants (LTAs), teaching those 3rd and 4th graders. Our undergraduates develop amazing skills in instruction, group facilitation and management, learning design,and assessment; in addition, they also develop significant leadership skills. These students emerge from A2LP with a sense of confidence and purpose that few other course experiences can provide. \\Our work is founded on a commitment to promote learning, for our LTAs and for the wonderful kids in elementary classrooms. It is also based on a strong sense of collaboration between all the members of our community. Although we provide detailed lesson plans for each lesson, we support the collaboration between LTAs to enhance and adapt the lessons to the learning needs of the different classrooms in which they teach. \\We also maintain close connection with what is happening in the elementary classrooms, by observing LTAs frequently and by supporting their teaching with feedback targeted to address the specific characteristics of each classroom. The Seminar experience every week allows us to integrate teaching principles with the experiences that our LTAs create every week in their teaching placements\\

Investment Focus

• Early-stage companies
• Sectors: Biomedicine, Healthcare IT, Advanced Materials, SaaS, Biotech, HealthTech, Fintech, Energy/Climate Tech, AI/Machine Learning
• Investment size: $50,000 to $200,000 per round
• Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
• Geographical focus: United States

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