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ABOUT US

Midgard Education Publishing is a 21st-century educational solutions company. We generate K-12 content that fosters workforce development and civic responsibility. Created by teachers, our curriculum includes lesson plans and activities for all core subjects, as well as AI-generated games, videos and assessment tools tied to state standards. We teach practical skills for young people with a variety of learning styles to help them thrive in the future.

ABOUT IDEAS

IDEAS—Industrial Education in the Arts and Sciences—is the new new K–12 program from Midgard that will offer free technological, manufacturing and trade-oriented lesson plans, state-of-the-art videos and immersive gamification (along with print and other analog media) that seamlessly integrate with existing curricula to offer new and personalized learning experiences that will use AI-driven analytic tools to identify talent and skills early, and put students on an ideal customized track toward a skill, trade or college. Many students who go through the program will leave high school ready for vital jobs and secure careers.

The program launches with BRIGHT IDEAS, a comprehensive set of K–1 lesson plans, augmented by teacher’s guides and additional resources. Other grades and new content will continually be added.

 

The United States faces a critical talent gap in technology sectors, most notably semiconductors. Traditional workforce development pathways rely on post-secondary education and on-the-job training, which delays workforce entry and limits participation. IDEAS will reduce time-to-workforce, identify individual talents early and create a scalable talent pipeline for critical and emerging technology sectors.

WHY IDEAS?

  • Workforce development shortfalls are a long-term problem at most tech companies. An approach encompassing the entire next generation of workers must be employed.
  • K-12 education is failing to instill interest and curiosity and foundational knowledge about industrial education — how things are made, how food is produced, what’s behind technology. IDEAS rectifies this. This begins in the earliest grades.
  • Unlike full curriculum programs, or new textbooks and courses that require difficult adoption approval processes, IDEAS offers lesson plans aligned to each state’s existing curricula and standards that can instantly be used in the classroom.