What Is an EduGuide?

An EduGuide is a person who is passionate about pursuing their potential and who finds joy in helping others reach theirs, too. An EduGuide shares what they’re learning and helps others discover new ways to succeed. 

At EduGuide, we envision a world in which schools and communities are filled with EduGuides. We see staff, students, families, and others all mentoring one other to bring out the best in everyone. By learning one EduGuide habit each week and then completing an EduGuide Challenge to teach that habit to 1 other person, students begin to build a strong peer mentoring community. Everyone can be an EduGuide, if they have the opportunity.  In fact, when you think about those who have been EduGuides in your life and reflect on them with gratitude, it can motivate you to emulate them and become an EduGuide for others. 

Anyone Can Be an EduGuide

That’s what happens when student begin using EduGuide. They learn to become EduGuides to their peers, family members, and community. Students who use the EduGuide platform have completed more than a million acts of mentoring, and that number just keeps growing. EduGuides motivate, encourage, and challenge others in big and small ways. Here’s what a few students reported: 

• “I’ve been able to help others using what I’ve learned on EduGuide because I know how to motivate people to never give up. I use examples from the lessons to encourage them.” Middle school student
• “My friend was unsure if she could go talk to her boss for a raise and so I used the encouragement skills that EduGuide gave me to help her. And she talked to her boss and got the raise.” College student
• “A friend of mine was having a hard time dwelling on school work and didn’t believe in themselves after they had just faced an unfavorable report. I encouraged them saying that they can always go past it and do better.” High school student

The Impact of One EduGuide

Bryan Taylor, EduGuide’s founder and president, recalled the impact one very special EduGuide made on his life, as he shared this story: 

A few years ago, my mom told me that Char Troy had died. She was my school counselor. I never made the honor society, but Mrs. Troy saw something in me that others didn’t. She sat me down in her office to talk about my future. When I got into trouble, she coached me on how to get out, without talking down to me the way most adults did. And in my junior year, by some miracle which I still don’t understand, she sent me to a two-week talented and gifted college access program at Eastern Michigan University, all expenses paid.

She was an EduGuide: a person who is passionate about pursuing their potential and finds joy in helping others reach theirs too. EduGuides live to share what they’re learning and to help others discover new ways to succeed — because it’s at these times when they know best what they were put on this Earth for.

Imagine if there were more EduGuides in this world. Imagine if we all worked together to help each student reach their full potential. Imagine, for a moment, if you and I could set aside all the things that get in our way and rebuild education around students: a personalized path for each person that brought out their best. Because each person is worth it.

That’s why I founded EduGuide. We began building a body of research and tools, like this platform, that any group could use to coach people as they take measurable steps to success. And we designed it as a non-profit, so that our sole focus would be on making a difference, and any money we raised could be poured back into helping more people. Funders like Kellogg, Mott, Lumina, Ford and many others have enabled us to grow to help millions to take measurable steps to success.

As EduGuides, we’re all in this together. And if we work together, we can change the course of lives, the way Char Troy did for me.

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