Edovo partnered with Critical Thinking executive producer Carla Berkowitz to transform the hit film into a cognitive behavioral course that teaches incarcerated learners how to regulate emotions and make better decisions using accessible neuroscience and chess-inspired strategies. By blending emotional intelligence with critical thinking through practical tools, metaphors, and daily practice, the course helps learners interrupt impulsive patterns and build lasting self-awareness. Ultimately, it reframes intelligence and agency, showing that while circumstances shape the board, thoughtful decision-making determines the outcome.

What if understanding how your brain works could help you understand your choices—and change what comes next? In this post, you’ll learn why neuroscience is especially meaningful for incarcerated people, many of whom have lived through trauma, toxic stress, and addiction, and how this kind of education can support healing, resilience, and reentry. You’ll also find ways to explore and share accessible neuroscience resources that can help families, advocates, and legal teams better understand behavior and decision-making.

Discover how shared stories can bridge the distance between incarcerated parents and their children. This article introduces Books as Bridges for Parenting While Incarcerated, a new Worldreader & Edovo course that uses reading, early childhood science, and simple everyday strategies to help families stay connected and emotionally present, no matter the barriers. Dive in to explore how small moments of storytelling can strengthen bonds, support child development, and bring hope to families on both sides of the wall.

We're not big on fundraising asks, but what we are big on, is people. Real incarcerated people using Edovo to grow, learn, and rebuild their lives every day. When we ask for support, it’s because your dollars go directly toward dignity, education, and real second chances. As we kick-off our end-of-year campaign, gifts of $50 or more will receive a personal thank-you message from one of our learners, a reminder of the lives your generosity touches. Learn more below!

Edovo Insight now lets staff view and download learner responses across all courses in one centralized view, making it easier to analyze participation and spot collective needs. This update empowers staff to identify trends, tailor programming, and strengthen reporting, ultimately deepening rehabilitation and connection inside facilities.

Embodied Presence with Eckhart Tolle: A Journey for Inner Freedom, now available on Edovo, gives incarcerated learners practical tools to cultivate inner stillness, resilience, and self-awareness through eight video modules and guided practices. In a correctional system where mental health needs are often unmet, this course offers a transformative path toward healing, presence, and personal growth.

Looping, or spiral learning, helps incarcerated learners retain knowledge by revisiting key concepts over time with new perspectives, making learning feel like growth rather than repetition. This trauma-informed strategy builds confidence, deepens understanding, and turns review into reinforcement that sticks.

Staying connected to an incarcerated loved one is essential—it reduces feelings of isolation, supports emotional resilience, and strengthens family bonds. Whether through letters, calls, or video visits, consistent communication can inspire hope, encourage personal growth, and improve the chances of a successful return home.

Long videos aren’t inherently bad, but they only work if designed with the brain in mind, using storytelling, breaks, and reflection to keep learners engaged. Chunking content, labeling runtimes, and balancing short- and long-form material helps learners process, retain, and stay motivated, even in distraction-heavy environments.

Cramming too much content onto a single screen overwhelms learners’ brains, especially in high-stress, distraction-heavy environments, causing important information to be forgotten. Spacing content across multiple screens with reflection, recaps, and manageable chunks boosts memory, attention, and motivation, turning scrolling into effective learning.

Longer-form courses can be engaging and memorable when designed with the brain in mind, using pauses, reflection, and clear lesson arcs to support attention and memory. By spacing content, varying cognitive load, and connecting new material to prior knowledge, even complex skills become manageable and stick with learners.

Edovo and The Change Companies have partnered to bring Atlas’ Interactive Journaling® directly into the Edovo platform. This integration gives incarcerated learners seamless access to proven tools for reflection and growth, while helping facilities deliver consistent, evidence-based programming alongside Edovo’s 35,000+ hours of content.

Shaka Senghor’s How to Be Free is now live on Edovo—weeks ahead of its official release. Based on his own journey through incarceration, the book offers powerful reflections and tools for healing from within.

Reentry isn’t a moment. It’s a steep climb with the odds stacked against people from the start. This blog breaks down the data behind the reentry cliff, revealing why so many fall back into the system and what it would take to truly set people up for success. Spoiler: it starts long before release.

Edovo’s completely revamped Knowledge Base gives education providers and facility staff the tools to turn great programming into effective, accessible digital learning behind bars. Packed with research-backed strategies, the Knowledge Base offers practical, easy-to-follow guides for designing engaging, trauma-informed education tailored to incarcerated learners. Whether you're building a statewide curriculum or a short reentry course, Edovo’s Knowledge Base helps you create meaningful learning that works—no instructional design experience required.

Edovo’s new homepage offers a more personalized and intuitive experience designed to meet the unique needs of incarcerated learners. With simplified navigation, clearer progress tracking, and guided support from the first login, the update makes it easier for learners to stay motivated and reach their goals.

Incarcerated people often carry deep, unaddressed trauma—but healing is possible, even behind bars. Through a partnership with the Sounds True Foundation, Edovo now offers trauma-informed, evidence-based mindfulness and mental health resources that empower learners to reclaim dignity, build resilience, and access personal transformation from within correctional facilities.

Childhood sexual abuse is a silent wound carried by many incarcerated individuals, but healing is possible. This blog explores the impact of early trauma and how Saprea’s course, 'How Do I Heal from Childhood Sexual Abuse?', is helping survivors reclaim their stories through education, self-compassion, and evidence-based tools.

This blog explores why access to education remains limited for many incarcerated individuals and what success looks like in expanding this access. It highlights key goals for the Unlock Day campaign, including systemic change, reaching one million more people, and creating lasting generational impact.

Edovo is launching its first-ever National Unlock Day on March 25, 2025, to expand digital education in prisons by encouraging people to share a 🔓 emoji on social media, with each post triggering a donation for one day of education. This blog outlines how you can get involved by spreading the word and posting the 🔓 emoji to unlock educational opportunities for incarcerated individuals.

Edovo’s GED Checklist: Your Path to New Opportunities course goes beyond test prep, helping incarcerated learners build confidence, study habits, and motivation that last well beyond exam day. By focusing on personal motivation, SMART goal-setting, and practical study strategies, the course equips learners with the tools to succeed—not just on the GED, but in life after incarceration.

Reentering society after incarceration is challenging due to financial and systemic barriers, but Edovo’s Resume Builder helps individuals prepare for job searches by creating professional resumes, improving their chances for stability.

Edovo and Worldreader's partnership helps incarcerated parents connect with their children through shared reading. Parents access books via Edovo tablets, while kids read along at home on Worldreader’s BookSmart app, strengthening bonds and literacy skills despite the distance.

The film Sing Sing from A24, inspired by the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, brings a powerful story of transformation and resilience to incarcerated individuals through its historic tablet release. Paired with Issa Rae’s class on MasterClass and RTA’s reflective questions, it fosters creativity, introspection, and connection, offering a unique pathway to personal growth and meaningful conversations.

In 2024, Edovo achieved transformative growth, tripling its impact by transitioning to a nonprofit and expanding educational access to nearly 1 million justice-impacted individuals across 1,130 facilities. With a revamped brand and enriched curriculum, Edovo empowered learners with tools for personal growth, career readiness, and rehabilitation. Read the full 2024 Impact Report.

This blog offers a series of thoughtful conversation prompts designed to foster connection between incarcerated individuals and their families during the holiday season. The questions focus on topics like personal growth, emotional support, gratitude, and lighthearted fun, helping to strengthen relationships and provide comfort during difficult times.

Supporting your loved one during their time of incarceration is one of the most meaningful ways to show you believe in their potential and future. Every step they take to learn, grow, and prepare for life during incarceration and upon release deserves to be celebrated—and you play an important role in that journey.

We've transitioned to a nonprofit organization with a new brand, aiming to expand its impact by providing educational resources to incarcerated individuals, with a renewed focus on fundraising, community support, and amplifying the voices of its learners.

How to support incarcerated individuals and correctional staff over the holiday season.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month—raising awareness of the link between domestic violence and incarceration to break the cycle.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by honoring culture and addressing challenges in the correctional system with education and dialogue.

Suicide rates in U.S. jails are significantly higher than in the general population. Check out these resources to help.

Correctional facilities across the nation are facing increasing pressure to provide effective programs that prepare incarcerated...

Learn how to use Edovo certificates and transcripts to inform legal decisions and support rehabilitation efforts in the courtroom.

Edovo supports families with incarcerated loved ones. Learn together with free resources, celebrate progress and stay connected.

53 new LinkedIn Learning courses offers essential skills in areas like tech literacy, professional development, and business fundamentals.

Foster a greater sense of connection with your loved one by learning together with content available to you and the incarcerated on Edovo.

Edovo's educational, vocational, and rehabilitative programs have a profound impact on incarcerated individuals. See the resuls of our 2024 learner survey.

Edovo provides a range of personalized, evidence-based recovery resources to support incarcerated individuals with substance misuse.

At Edovo, we believe education transforms lives; join us in amplifying our mission through awareness, collaboration, and advocacy.

Edovo provides four content types—Courses, Resources, Assessments, and Surveys—that offer flexible learning and operational tools to meet the diverse needs of correctional facilities and their learners.

Edovo helps create focused, impactful digital curricula for incarcerated learners by emphasizing clear, actionable objectives that guide course design, ensuring learners achieve meaningful and measurable outcomes.

Edovo learners who complete Modern States coursework can earn free college credits through CLEP exams, with options for proctored testing at facilities or after release, potentially saving time and tuition costs on their educational journey.

Edovo enables correctional facilities to enhance volunteer engagement by digitizing content, allowing remote interactions, tracking learner progress, and streamlining volunteer contributions through targeted programming and analytics.

This blog emphasizes the importance of diverse and well-crafted assessments to engage incarcerated learners and reinforce course material while ensuring clarity and real-world applicability.

Edovo supports in-person programming by integrating digital tools to streamline operations, enhance learning, and reduce administrative burdens through strategies like digital homework, prerequisites, and waitlist management.

Edovo provides incarcerated learners with tailored resources and structured learning paths to prepare for the HiSET and GED exams, empowering them to achieve high school equivalency and unlock future opportunities.

Spaced repetition is an effective teaching method that reinforces key concepts through strategic reviews at intervals, helping incarcerated learners retain and apply knowledge more effectively.

Edovo ensures incarcerated learners receive safe, transformative education through a rigorous content screening and evaluation process, prioritizing relevance, accessibility, and personal growth.

Edovo simplifies deployment across connected devices in correctional facilities, offering step-by-step guidance for integrating its transformative educational platform to empower justice-involved individuals.

How MasterClass and Edovo are unlocking creativity, confidence, and career potential for incarcerated learners across the U.S.

How Securus and Edovo are transforming correctional facilities into initiative driven classrooms, one tablet, one learner, one life at a time.

Larimer County Jail in Fort Collins, Colorado takes a community-based, human-centered approach, pairing a compassionate staff culture and local partners (the Stone Soup Initiative) with day-one digital access to Edovo on ViaPath tablets. Hear the impact it's all having on the incarcerated within Larimer County!

Roadtrip Nation has spent over two decades inspiring people to explore careers through storytelling, digital tools, and project-based learning.

Imagine something that helps incarcerated individuals see what life beyond their sentence can be. is it possible that an app called edovo empowers people to believe in themselves? yes. we exist because denying education never made sense. now we’ve proven that transformation is possible when opportunity is at people’s fingertips.

At Edovo, we believe in the transformative power of education. Each year, we strive to bring life-changing learning opportunities to incarcerated individuals, empowering them to build brighter futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. Dive into our 2024 Impact Report to see how the ripples of progress this year made waves of change.

In Rhode Island, a neuroscience class in a state prison is helping incarcerated learners better understand the root causes of destructive behavior by teaching how the brain works and how trauma, stress, and decision-making are connected. This approach reflects a growing recognition that science-based education can support emotional insight, healthier choices, and rehabilitation behind bars.

Prison Journalism Project (PJP) has partnered with Edovo to expand access to its journalism training and educational newspaper for incarcerated writers. Through this collaboration, PJP’s reporting and writing materials will be available on Edovo’s tablet-based platform, reaching hundreds of thousands of incarcerated learners across prisons and jails nationwide.

The Edovo Foundation is helping connect incarcerated people to education and information through digital learning, offering courses and resources that support personal growth, skill-building, and preparation for life after incarceration. The program highlights how access to education inside jails and prisons can transform how justice-impacted individuals learn, heal, and prepare for the future.

As A24 re-releases the Colman Domingo Oscar contender in movie theaters this week, the indie studio is also making Sing Sing available to nearly a million incarcerated people across the U.S.