THE CANOPY

The Canopy project allows education leaders, school designers, and researchers to explore how a diverse set of learning environments describe their innovative designs.

Here’s a guide to exploring our portal and using the latest data (April 2024).

Download the full public dataset to view a data dictionary with details about the origin of these data

Promising Progress, Fragile Foundations

Reimagining learning environments in school-wide, enduring ways is possible anywhere in the country, in any kind of school. Indeed, it is underway—and students are benefiting. But to sustain and spread this progress, policymakers, funders, and researchers must prioritize conditions for school innovation.

What’s Next?

Learning environments in the Canopy project represent the seeds of a vibrant movement to reinvent public education as a resilient, equitable system that nurtures the unique potential of every student. This movement needs support to take root, demonstrate efficacy, and spread.

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