- During the 2010-2011 academic year, the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum celebrated its 20th anniversary. For two decades, the Courage Curriculum has developed and fostered a relationship with the Boston Public Schools and the City of Boston.
- Nearly 100% of Boston Public Schools’ sixth-grade classrooms implement the Courage in My Life curriculum, which reaches 3,500 children and families annually.
- Since 1991, the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum has served more than 100,000 young people and supported their teachers in promoting literacy and value-based education.
- More than 900 sixth-grade students have had their personal essays printed in 19 volumes of The Courage of Boston’s Children.
- The Courage Curriculum is being taught in Boston Public Schools and the surrounding communities, in local public, parochial, charter, pilot and private schools and religious academies. Schools as far away as Thailand, India and the United Kingdom teach the Courage Curriculum, helping the program grow on a local, national and global scale.
- We have successfully expanded to include our ninth-grade program, The Courage of My Convictions, actively engaging young people in their communities and each year, the program continues to grow, reaching students in Boston and beyond.
- Millions of dollars in revenue and in-kind donations have been raised for the Boston Public Schools, in the form of books for classrooms and school libraries, teachers’ guides that meet the Massachusetts state education standards, and conferences that provide valuable professional development for teachers and principals.
- The Courage Curriculum has engaged thousands of volunteers and has worked to build a bond within the community that enables students to learn that their actions – no matter how small – can produce change and empower young people.
- The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum was the first privately funded English Language Arts curriculum in Boston schools and is a national model for nonprofit / school collaboration.
- In 2008, the Courage Curriculum formed a relationship with Cambium Learning Technologies to co-develop a website that distributes a condensed version of the program’s curriculum and teacher guides.
- The Courage Curriculum and Cambium also partnered to host a national essay contest for middle school students on the topic of courage. The first national essay contest winner, a sixth-grader from Houston, TX, was named in June 2010. A second winner, from New York City, was honored in June 2011.
- Recognitions include the 2007 Special Award from National CrimeBeat, a charity of the High Sheriffs’ Association in the United Kingdom; the International Reading Association Program Excellence Award; and the Golden Globe New England Award for video teaching material.
- The Courage Curriculum is in residence at Northeastern University and a proud partner of the Stony Brook Initiative.
