Access a raw data file with all information from the Canopy crowdsourcing process in 2022-23.

The Canopy is a collaborative effort to surface a diverse set of innovative learning environments, and document the designs that they are implementing. This memo describes the methodology used to collect data for the project in SY2023-24.

Explore examples of how to use the Canopy data and instructions for how to filter and search the data portal. Let us know what you discover!

Access the full list of Canopy tags. These tags were designed by the project advisors and stewarding organizations to attempt to describe the most common innovative elements observed in schools across the country.

Access the contents of the survey sent to all nominated schools. Schools used this survey to pick the Canopy tags that described their models. Schools responded in February 2024.

Access the contents of the survey sent to all nominating organizations. Nominators were asked to identify schools that had built exemplary innovative models and describe why they chose to nominate them.

Access a raw data file with all information from the Canopy crowdsourcing process in 2022-23.

Access a raw data file with all information from the Canopy crowdsourcing process in 2021-22.

What works for some doesn’t work for all, and what’s working for those on the margins could be completely unknown.