 We have students that come into the program with little to no academic training. Some students have never touched a computer before in their life. They don't even know to turn it on. When I was in my country, I didn't get this opportunity to get a computer here. I can get that opportunity. Project IDEA began out of a collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The mission of the IDEA program is to engage students in technology in order to accelerate their learning so they can get the certificates and degrees needed to move into living wage jobs. I want to study medical nursing and helping people. The Project IDEA curriculum is unlike any ESL textbook that we have seen before. We have topics like cross-cultural communication, effective presentations, and environmental issues that aren't typical of an ESL textbook. The new curriculum and teaching, this flipped model, establishes a very important shift. Removing the focus of knowledge and power from the instructor and shift it to the student. So the dynamic has changed in the sense that students are now empowered. The flipped model of teaching allows students more independence. They have to manage their time to do their work and then they come to class and practice what they've learned. When I come here, I don't speak any English. My favorite part of Project IDEA curriculum is you can speak in class. You can write, you can listen, and you can go home and practice what you learn in class. So we're seeing self-actualization of learning and that's a huge marker for students to be able to take ownership of that learning process. Three months after I start the class, for the first time I can write a test in English. IDEA was a three-phase pilot. By the end of the pilot, we had 33 providers participating. By the end of the third year, about 11% of the students had learning gains that were above that of students in traditional ESL classes. And on standardized tests, students were 12% higher and the growth continues. The interesting dynamics in the model is that students are able to reinforce the curriculum by bringing in their own experiences. Last year, I was an ESL agent. I won, maybe, graduate Bellevue College. I get a certificate for the ESL agent in real estate. This one student, she would tell me, teacher, I have to go, I have to go. I'm looking for a job after class and I have to go to my friend's house because my friend helps me to look for jobs online. And then she helps me fill out the online applications. We had job skills and work readiness modules that teach students how to fill out online applications to create resumes online. Once she had those skills, she came to me at the end of class and she said, I don't have to ask my friend anymore. The other day I used the IDEA laptop to find myself a job and she gave me back the laptop and she started working. I made my resume in class and practiced the real interview after. I write my teacher. Oh, I get the job. For me, the IDEA program is the excellent program.