Level creates free educational content for people in prison. #OER #edtech #digitaldivide #creativecommons #equity #adulteducation #prisoneducation
Austin, TX
Joined February 2017
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Last year, California spent $15.4 billion on prisons and $4.2 billion on higher education. Priorities! davisvanguard.org/2022/07/my… #education #prison #massincarceration
"I refuse to be detained by my current circumstance at hand." Sent to us by Javontae, incarcerated in northern Florida
#vision #goals #education #prison #prisoneducation #prisonlife #wisdom
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What is the worst thing you have ever done? Write it on a sticker and put the sticker on the front of your shirt and wear it everywhere you go. Nothing you can ever do will cover that label up – everything is seen through that stain. This is a convict’s life – FOREVER
Are we going to educate, or incarcerate? Just finished the #reentry2030 launch event -> great advocacy from Nicole Jarrett, @MzDeHoskins, @ElgieSims and @DylanHayre. Inaction is a decision! Let's go forward reinventing #reetry from #prison with #education reentry2030.org/
@Charles_edu Big fan of your work here in Austin. Can we get a meeting? I promise, it will not be boring. DM your email. Thanks!
Over the past 15 months, demand from people in prison for Level's educational material has increased a whopping 100%+ every month. And we're still in stealth mode. What does this tell you? #prisoneducation #OER #creativecommons #education learnlevel.org/impact/
Sorry, just saw this. We ended up getting really lucky and convinced the CS Unplugged team in New Zealand to take on this project. They are the ones who originally wrote all the content and now they're working on adapting it for incarcerated adults. Super cool!!!
Thanks! How can we work together? We're about to publish our first entrepreneurship guide for people in prison. It's awesome. We're raising money to make additional guides. We're also working on computer science guides for people who don't have computers.
Are you experienced in #CSUnplugged and #ComputationalThinking? Level is hiring a contract writer to adapt CS Unplugged content for low income adults. Fill out the Join Level form at learnlevel.org for more information.
🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We are launching our next Level guide: Food Prep Certification! Job training resources are so crucial for helping prepare people to hit the ground running upon release, and we hope this guide will help them do exactly that.
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Mail bans give incarcerated people and their families one more reason to use paid communication options like phone calls, video calls, and tablets. Private vendors always profit from these services - and often, they kick back some of the revenue to the prisons.
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Last month Connecticut became the first state in the country to make prison phone calls free. It’s a huge victory for the incarcerated and their families and will transform the lives of children with incarcerated parents. Every single state should do this. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
“It’s no longer a luxury. This is serious. It’s really a social justice issue. It’s a 21st century civil rights issue.”
@CheptooKositany, advocate for closing the #digitaldivide, on the lack of reliable internet access for everyone.
4,149 total guides sent
235 prisons in 39 states
42 jails in 21 states
27 federal prisons
496 guides sent directly to inmates who have written us to request a guide via mail
We've been able to do a lot so far, but we're only just getting started.
Our team has been able to circulate thousands of our free educational guides across the country to fill the gap in prison education programs and supply incarcerated folks with job training manuals and content for personal skill development.
Here's Level, by the numbers:
@FL_Corrections Your prisoner search function at dc.state.fl.us/offendersearc… isn't working. Do you know when the service will be available?