Our platform connects educators with professionals in their community to create and schedule transformational, in-person, learning experiences for students. Pairing academic curriculums with expert engagement has never been easier.
The Issue
Over 50% of all U.S. students are chronically disengaged from school. Research attributes this disengagement to the lack of relevance between classroom learning and students’ lives.

The Solution
TEPHE is a free online platform that empowers K-12 educators to connect with the professionals and experts in their community to provide a 21st century, whole child education for students!

The Result
Schools engage their community to support learning, develop real-world curriculums, and increase engagement. Most importantly students find their strengths and discover their passions!

Technology… Our Online platform makes creating, posting, requesting, and scheduling experiences easy between schools and community users. Communicating, managing experiences, and scheduling can all be done through the TEPHE platform on a variety of different devices.
Educate… Educating both schools and professional users how to best use TEPHE. Providing teacher development on best practices, examples of effective experiences, and comprehensive data analysis. Educating and consulting individuals and businesses on how to best support student learning.
Scale… Platform allows for nationwide (international) implementation with ecosystems existing wherever users are. Outreach and marketing campaigns to grow school/community users. Establish district and statewide partnerships to connect the education and business communities.
Design… Developing and implementing systems that allow nonprofits, businesses, and schools to achieve their organization’s mission. Providing experience consulting to help these organizations create and manage truly transformational learning experiences for students.
Enhanced lessons and relevant classroom-learning … pairing academic studies with real-world examples and guest speakers results in more engaging classroom learning for students.
Increased number of “sparks”… one-time, inspirational, experiences meant to provide new information, point-of-views, and opportunities.
Increased and stronger School/Community partnerships… Education thrives when communities engage in their schools education.
Increased student engagement… Connecting classroom learning to student’s real life experiences increases students engagement, attendance, and overall academic performance.
Schools access and utilize all assets in their community… TEPHE empowers schools to fully utilize every asset in their community to provide a 21st century learning experience for their students.
Students discovering their interests, strengths, and passions and pursuing school, college, and career success.
Are you a teacher, admin, librarian, program coordinator or coach looking to bring professionals into your classroom?
Create
Create and post amazing ‘Projects’ that require professional assistance so local professionals can apply to help
Partner
Choose from the pool of professionals who apply to your project OR request an experience a professional is offering
Schedule
Discuss and confirm details of experiences and schedule them into your calendar
Are you a professional, nonprofit, or business wanting to support the education of students in your community?
Signup
Signup and create a Professional Profile (with your LinkedIn) to show your expertise to local schools
Offer
Apply to help local, teacher-created, ‘Projects’ or offer your own experience, designed and taught by you
Schedule
Discuss and confirm details of experiences and schedule them into your calendar
The Numbers Behind TEPHE
Experiences Facilitated
Professionals
Students Impacted

Schools - Connect with professionals to create transformational experiences
Communities - Individuals and businesses improve education in their community
Students - Find their strengths and discover their passions in the classroom
TEPHE - Our free platform makes connecting, collaborating, and creating easy
- Connect and communicate with all professionals in your community
- Create and post projects that require professional help
- Review project applicants and choose the best fit
- Find and request professional created experiences (workshops, performances, Q&A’s, lectures, etc.)
- Manage all communication and scheduling logistics through TEPHE’s dashboard
Professionals use the TEPHE platform to:
- Create a Professional Profile to show off your expertise to local educators (Use your LinkedIn account)
- Find and apply to projects, created by teachers, that you think you could help with
- Create and offer experiences to local schools (workshops, performances, Q&A’s, lectures, etc.)
- Manage all communication and scheduling logistics through TEPHE’s dashboard
Our Core Values
At TEPHE our core values drive how we lead and shape what we do
Innovative Impact
Community Centered
Deliberately Diverse
Be(have) Benevolent




We believe crossing boundaries enriches development and educational processes. We believe bold ideas backed by calculated action leads to transformational change. We believe innovation is key in improving the lives of students. We are determined and driven to make a meaningful and sustainable impact on this world.
At our core we believe hope and change are built on assets and dreams of locals and their communities. We are using ourselves, our work, education, and technology to provide tools so that this belief can be actualized in all neighborhoods. We believe supporting the people closest to the issues in schools and communities enables discovering answers to local concerns.
We invest in recruiting professionals and partnerships that are diverse in every respect. In particular, we ensure schools have access to professionals that look, sound, and share the same culture as their diverse student populations. We fight educational inequity by giving a voice to all affinity champions and venue to impact their local education.
We place the opportunity of helping others over profits. In this we develop a willingness to stick things out, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction of the innate value that permeates ALL people. We marshal and direct our energies wisely, not needing to force our way in work or in life. We have affection for others exuberance about life, and (occasionally) serenity.




Sparks
One-time, inspirational, experiences meant to provide new information, point-of-views, and opportunities.
Flames
Multiple-meeting, structured experiences intended to serve as a crucial developmental foundation for learning and growing.

- Are created between the teacher and professional depending on the lesson or content. (Usually a teacher will message the professional with an idea of how they could enhance a lesson!)
- Always monitored by a school staff member (No need for a DOJ Background check or TB test)

These experiences:
- Have a preset structure (No input is needed from teachers/schools)
- Always monitored by a school staff member (No need for a DOJ Background check or TB test)
- Experience TEPHE approved (Schools can be confident they are receiving a quality experience)

- DOJ Background Check
- TB Test (Tuberculin skin test)
- Experience TEPHE approved (Schools can be confident they are receiving a quality experience)

- DOJ Background Check
- TB Test (Tuberculin skin test)
- Due-Diligence (Done by TEPHE)
- Insurance Requirements
- Due-Diligence
- Experience TEPHE approved (Schools can be confident they are receiving a quality experience)