New designs to advance learning
Carnegie Corporation supports strengthening capacity and conditions for sustained improvement in districts and schools.
Award amount
$900000Principal investigator
Robin LakeDirect sponsor
Carnegie Corporation of New YorkAward start date
01/01/2023Award end date
12/31/2025The challenge
The pandemic accelerated experimentation and adoption of various educational models, generating large amounts of data and insight into new designs and best practices. There is a need and opportunity to capture and evaluate this vast amount of information in order to deepen and sustain the innovative work of schools, school districts and education-focused organizations.
The approach
New Designs to Advance Learning is led by Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education, or CRPE, housed at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. The project supports strengthening capacity and conditions for locally-driven change and sustained improvement in districts and schools. It will pursue this goal by collecting and capturing knowledge about student and family needs in the wake of the pandemic; looking at how districts are responding to accelerate recovery; and identifying what solutions hold promise for spreading and sustaining innovative learning models. It will investigate essential policy questions and uncover complex barriers that schools and districts face when implementing innovative models. In addition, these efforts will directly support the capacity of educational organizations to deepen and sustain their innovation work. CRPE is especially interested in a new blueprint for American high schools that equitably develops students’ academic, social and emotional skills.