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2024 Spring League of Innovative Students Cohort

2024 Spring Design Sprint

For the 2024 Spring Design Sprint, LOIS students worked with Center for Inclusive Innovation (CII) staff members on one project of their choice to build their research and design-thinking skills to impact the national education landscape. From January to June 2025, they met virtually with members of their cohort and the CII team to contribute to projects and receive incentives for their participation. At the end of the program, they had the opportunity to research education challenges faced by their peers, design solutions, and present their work to school leaders or by publishing blog posts or vlogs about their experience.

Project 1: Digital Promise Challenge Map
Project 2: EdTech Equity — Students Co-Design Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Products
Project 3: EdTech Equity — Students + Entrepreneurs Co-Design an Inclusive EdTech Feedback Loop

Students will research the top five equity challenges in education faced by their fellow students. They will showcase solutions to a broad audience, including their school, district leaders, and members of LOIS, and learn about student advocacy.

Students will incorporate their voices and perspectives in the development of a set of product “requirements” for equity in edtech. Students will learn what it means for a product (or curriculum) to be culturally responsive; they will develop criteria for culturally responsive products and get feedback from peers prior to finalizing their criteria in a framework.

Students will co-design and develop a model that researchers and edtech product developers can use to create products that are focused on students needs. The students will collaborate with entrepreneurs, test inclusive edtech in rapid-cycles, and present about the model.

Project 1: Digital Promise Challenge Map

Students will research the top five equity challenges in education faced by their fellow students. They will showcase solutions to a broad audience, including their school, district leaders, and members of LOIS, and learn about student advocacy.

Project 2: EdTech Equity — Students Co-Design Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Products

Students will incorporate their voices and perspectives in the development of a set of product “requirements” for equity in edtech. Students will learn what it means for a product (or curriculum) to be culturally responsive; they will develop criteria for culturally responsive products and get feedback from peers prior to finalizing their criteria in a framework.

Project 3: EdTech Equity — Students + Entrepreneurs Co-Design an Inclusive EdTech Feedback Loop

Students will co-design and develop a model that researchers and edtech product developers can use to create products that are focused on students needs. The students will collaborate with entrepreneurs, test inclusive edtech in rapid-cycles, and present about the model.

The League of Innovative Students began as a partnership with the Digital Promise Networks and Partnerships team. 36 students from 18 different school districts engaged in an eight-month collaboration with members of the Center for Inclusive Innovation team and played integral roles in shaping two Research and Development (R&D) projects. Through their involvement, students learned about the many different forms advocacy can look like, and did user research on recruiting priority students and researched an equity-centered challenge in their community.
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