ENCORE brings together educators, developers, researchers, and learning partners to collaboratively design, test, and refine products. Through iterative cycles of design and feedback, each cohort ensures products are informed by classroom needs, grounded in research, and guided by shared measures.
Educators and students co-design tools to ensure they are relevant, culturally responsive, and practical for real classrooms. Their insights inform what works, enhance teaching practices, and boost student motivation and engagement.
Product developers partner with schools and districts to pilot tools through rapid iteration. Collaborating directly with teachers and learners helps them identify key features, improve usability, and create products that are scalable and impactful.
Researchers take an embedded approach, collaborating directly in the co-design process to build datasets, prototype, and refine study designs with educators and developers. This iterative model strengthens ENCORE’s evidence base, ensuring insights are rigorous, timely, and grounded in real classrooms.
Learning partners provide independent rigor and accountability by defining shared measures, ensuring equitable and ethical protocols, and offering external validation. Their involvement builds trust in the results and supports their application across the field. Examples include:
Across cohorts, ENCORE has engaged dozens of organizations and classrooms nationwide. Its collaborative design process drives innovations that are tested, refined, and shared broadly, strengthening teaching, accelerating student learning, and scaling solutions that work.
Establishing partnerships and shared measures
Design sprints with educators and/or students and developers to develop product features
Real classroom implementation with data collection
Through shared measures, understand the impact and value of ENCORE solutions
Cross-cohort and field sharing of lessons learned
Reporting insights and expanding adoption
