In addition to creating award winning cartoons, Big Bad Boo’s Education Division develops and implements curricula that use its cartoons in the classroom as a springboard for discussions and activities that teach 21st Century Skills, including Executive Function, Social Emotional Learning (tightly aligned to CASELs SEL Standards), UNICEF Life Skills and Big Bad Boo’s own Civic Education Framework. Outside of 21st Century Skills, we also develop cartoons and curricula that accelerate the acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

Our educational programs are used in schools and learning centers in over 15 countries by ministries of education and educational institutions. This division has also been partnering with UNICEF for over a decade using our programs to teach Life Skills and provide Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) to children in post conflict environments suffering from trauma. We also have detailed assessment instruments that measure and MAP progress of 21st Century Skills developed by the former head of formative research from Sesame Workshop and data scientists from Oxford that specialize in quantitative behavioral science. When used in schools internationally or with UNICEF, our programs are localized for the community in which they will be implemented by working in partnership with ministries of education and local experts and educators.

Because of the work we do in post-conflict environments, we make our content available for high, medium, and non-tech environments through animated episodes (distributed via TV, online and/or USBs), radio theater, story book readers, comic books, and any other format required, with children receiving accompanying activity books. Children watch or listen to an episode and are then guided through activities and discussion by teachers, facilitators or parents, in both formal or informal learning environments, as the context allows.