About

EPIC is located at Teachers College, Columbia University

• Improve people’s ability to handle setbacks and undesirable situations, regardless of their backgrounds, socioeconomic status or intellect, in ways that increase creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills.
• Develop new theories about failure and understand what makes people succeed and achieve in a wide variety of domains (e.g. schools, businesses, sports, scientific research, and personal lives, etc. ).
• Bring together Western and Eastern educational leaders in research projects, live meetings, webinars, and one-on-one interactions to tackle the educational challenges facing our society
• Design instructional materials that will help students, educators, parents, coaches, and businesses better prepare themselves to overcome future obstacles.
• Use our findings of what works and does not work to help inform policymakers across the world.