1999 - 2021
Our Foundation
PowerMyLearning was co-founded as Computers for Youth (CFY) in 1999 by Elisabeth Stock and Dan Dolgin with a simple yet powerful belief: when families are engaged in their children’s education, students achieve more. For over two decades, we developed and delivered evidence-based programs that brought families and schools together around student learning, impacting millions of students across the country. In 2011, we rebranded as PowerMyLearning to reflect our expanding mission.
In 2017, with support from leading funders, we developed Family Playlists®, an innovation that connected classroom learning with at-home practice and family engagement. Combined with professional learning, our programming delivered measurable impact on math outcomes, academic achievement, teacher practice, teacher retention, and student growth mindset. This success laid the groundwork for our next transformation.
2021 - Present
The Transformation
In 2021, PowerMyLearning was awarded the prestigious Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, supporting our efforts to scale this breakthrough nationally and ensure all students—particularly multilingual learners and those in underserved communities—have access to excellent math education.
As we witnessed persistent challenges in mathematics education—particularly the inability of traditional ed tech solutions to reveal how students think about mathematical concepts—we recognized an opportunity to apply our mission of educational equity to a new frontier: mathematics instruction.