The League of Innovative Students (LOIS) is a cohort of high school students from districts in the League of Innovative Schools. Hosted through Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation, each LOIS cohort participates in a design sprint where they lead the development—and sometimes even implementation—of solutions and products that impact the national education landscape.
We believe students are valuable leaders whose unique perspectives and lived experiences should guide education research and solutions. Join us in amplifying their voices within and beyond school walls to drive progress and make education more equitable and innovative!
From January to May, students collaborate with members of their cohort and the Center for Inclusive Innovation team on projects and receive incentives for their participation. At the end of the program, students have the opportunity to research education challenges faced by their peers, design solutions, present their work to school district leaders and others, and publish blog posts or vlogs about their experience. Learn about this year’s research and design sprints below.
The Center for Inclusive Innovation and EdTech Remix Collaborative at Stanford d.school are partnering to bring diverse student voices, perspectives, and ingenuity into the design and development of educational technology tools.
This opportunity utilizes Digital Promise’s Inclusive Innovation model to connect edtech developers with a diverse network of students from across the country to engage in meaningful co-design experiences that center student perspectives in edtech research and development.
Over 12 weeks, high school students and adult champions from school districts are working alongside edtech developer teams. Using an inclusive design approach, teams engage in co-research and co-design processes to enhance educational technology that addresses the needs of diverse learners and centers student voices.
Digital Promise and EdTech Remix are collaborating to support the edtech teams in co-constructing research questions and engaging in co-research and co-design with the students.
The Center for Inclusive Innovation is supporting three districts in building student capacity in research and development focused on a priority challenge in the district identified by students.
District student teams select a challenge area from one of the fourteen Challenge Map topics. During the 12-week engagement, students work to carry out research activities to unpack the identified challenge area, gather perspectives from fellow students and other school community members, and surface potential strategies to improve the challenge.
Students learn how to identify priority areas within their school communities, gather data and solution ideas about those priorities, and create recommendations for school and district leaders to address these challenge areas. LOIS members learn to design survey questions that are centered around student experience and highlight diverse perspectives. Participating in the Challenge Map sprint provides students with an opportunity to voice their concerns and present potential solutions that are backed by data they collect from their peers.
Participating districts gain opportunities to showcase their learnings with other districts in the League of Innovative Schools network and contribute to the evolution of Digital Promise’s Challenge Map, an initiative that amplifies priorities from the League of Innovative Schools.
The Center for Inclusive Innovation and EdTech Remix Collaborative at Stanford d.school are partnering to bring diverse student voices, perspectives, and ingenuity into the design and development of educational technology tools.
This opportunity utilizes Digital Promise’s Inclusive Innovation model to connect edtech developers with a diverse network of students from across the country to engage in meaningful co-design experiences that center student perspectives in edtech research and development.
Over 12 weeks, high school students and adult champions from school districts are working alongside edtech developer teams. Using an inclusive design approach, teams engage in co-research and co-design processes to enhance educational technology that addresses the needs of diverse learners and centers student voices.
Digital Promise and EdTech Remix are collaborating to support the edtech teams in co-constructing research questions and engaging in co-research and co-design with the students.
The Center for Inclusive Innovation is supporting three districts in building student capacity in research and development focused on a priority challenge in the district identified by students.
District student teams select a challenge area from one of the fourteen Challenge Map topics. During the 12-week engagement, students work to carry out research activities to unpack the identified challenge area, gather perspectives from fellow students and other school community members, and surface potential strategies to improve the challenge.
Students learn how to identify priority areas within their school communities, gather data and solution ideas about those priorities, and create recommendations for school and district leaders to address these challenge areas. LOIS members learn to design survey questions that are centered around student experience and highlight diverse perspectives. Participating in the Challenge Map sprint provides students with an opportunity to voice their concerns and present potential solutions that are backed by data they collect from their peers.
Participating districts gain opportunities to showcase their learnings with other districts in the League of Innovative Schools network and contribute to the evolution of Digital Promise’s Challenge Map, an initiative that amplifies priorities from the League of Innovative Schools.
Center for Inclusive Innovation