Expanded Definition of Student Success Challenge

Overview

<p>In February 2019, NewSchools launched the NewSchools Ignite Expanded Definition of Student Success Challenge – open to entrepreneurs developing technology-enabled learning experiences, instructional content, learning diagnostics, administrative tools, and other products that promote an expanded definition of student success by enhancing academic and social-emotional learning and supporting the development of nurturing school and classroom environments.</p> <p>We conducted market research – including conversations with students, educators, and researchers from across the country – to learn more about the role of technology in supporting an expanded definition of student success. Based on this research, we believe the most promising ed tech innovations will support the development of a range of social-emotional competencies, cognitive skills, and attributes of positive learning environments. In doing so, we expect that challenge winners will address one or more critical area of student need:</p> <ul> <li>Promoting school readiness and skills that enable successful school transitions;</li> <li>Integrating social-emotional development into core academic learning;</li> <li>Enabling new ways to measure and analyze an expanded set of student outcomes; and</li> <li>Building teachers’, parents’, and communities’ capacity to support an expanded definition of student success.</li> </ul>