Projects

 

national partnership for student success

The NPSS is a public private partnership that seeks to provide the leadership, organizational structures, and connective tissue to bring additional evidence-based person-powered student supports to schools and districts based on locally determined needs. The NPSS focuses on five types of evidence-based student supports that can be combined to meet holistic student needs: academic tutors; mentors; post-secondary transition coaches; student success coaches; and wraparound integrated student support coordinators.

 

Educating all learners alliance

The Educating All Learners™ Alliance (EALA) is an uncommon coalition of organizations committed to resource sharing and community-building that supports the efforts of the education community to meet the needs of students with disabilities. We are committed to showing the path to possible for practitioners by providing curated, searchable resources, access to experts, a tech library featuring accessibility features in edtech, and examples from the field.

 

Pathways Alliance

The Pathways Alliance is an uncommon coalition of leading organizations dedicated to supporting and implementing diverse and inclusive educator preparation pipelines, including teacher residency programs. Now more than ever, effective and affordable education preparation programs and pathways are essential for teachers, schools, and students. We're working together to make this possible.

 

Project unicorn

Project Unicorn is an effort to improve data interoperability within K-12 education. We aim to create a community of innovators who make the broader case for secure interoperability by determining shared priorities, working in partnership with school systems and vendors to understand its importance and benefits, creating a demand side push for interoperability through partnerships, and educating buyers to consider the total cost of ownership through informed comparison of vendors.

 

EdTech Evidence Exchange

The EdTech Evidence Exchange is a nonprofit dedicated to pioneering an entirely new approach to EdTech research by harnessing and sharing educator insights into the contexts where EdTech thrives. We help educators make better-informed decisions about technology. Our team is made of a community of educators, edtech experts, and district decision-makers committed to coming together to solve our shared problem: a lack of information about what edtech works where and why.

 

Converge

Converge is a new company that is majority owned by InnovateEDU but creates a new model for education technology scale. Converge builds on InnovateEDU's expertise and knowledge in technology but creates the opportunity for scale and impact through working with mission aligned investors in our product portfolio.

 

The EDSAFE AI Alliance

The EDSAFE AI Alliance aims to promote AI's safe, accountable, fair, and efficacious (SAFE) use in education.  Led by a Steering Committee of leading education, technology, and learning organizations, the Alliance joins forces to address one of our time's most pressing educational policy challenges. Anchored in the SAFE framework, EDSAFE focuses on policy development and support at the federal, state, and local level through our education and advocacy efforts. We support the field through a national network of district-level policy labs and a groundbreaking fellowship to build the field's capacity.

 

Blueprint for Inclusive Research and Development in Education(BIRD-E)

InnovateEDU leads a new project to develop an open-source framework that researchers and practitioners can use to understand, interpret, and synthesize data in education Research & Development. Our goal is to help provide the infrastructure that makes it easier to understand what works for whom, when and how. With the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and several other design and development partners, we have developed the Blueprint for Inclusive Research and Development in Education(BIRD-E) as the latest key piece of research infrastructure for the sector. BIRD-E is a meta-analytic open-source framework, patterned off of the innovative practices in healthcare that have spurred innovation.

 

After School Programming with DYCD

Beginning in 2015, InnovateEDU has implemented an after school program at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School, with support from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development(DYCD). Through this DYCD SONYC program, LAB students are engaged in daily project-based workshops that foster the development of 21st century learning skills in digital literacy and student leadership.

 

Data Whiz

Data Whiz is a community of practice that works to share best practices and solve common pain points around technology and data in the education space. We are a community of doers who believe we should be learning from each other’s work while creating real impact in the space. This takes the form of projects that have impact outside the walls of Data Whiz itself.