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Funders
Philanthropic funding is often critical for seeding innovations in schools.
Understand trends in education innovation and how schools around the country are designing in ways that are responsive to their students and communities.
Find potential grantees, compare your grantees to other innovative schools across the country, and learn about schools implementing practices you invest in on our data portal.
The Canopy Project is powered by nominations from organizations that work with innovative K-12 schools, but are not schools themselves. If your foundation is investing in engaging, effective, and empowering learning, become a Canopy Nominator.
Policy Influencers
Policies can propel or impede innovation in schools.
Learn how traditional policy structures impede schools’ ability to innovate and how policy changes informed by school communities can support systemic change.
Search for schools in your constituency, read school leaders’ perspectives about policy barriers and opportunities, and find common innovative practices.
The Canopy Project is powered by nominations from organizations that work with innovative K-12 schools, but are not schools themselves. If your organization is working toward engaging, effective, and empowering learning, become a Canopy Nominator
Researchers
Research is critical for building evidence of the impact of innovative schools and seeing patterns in the K–12 innovation landscape.
Download qualitative and quantitative Canopy datasets to describe, categorize, and/or analyze emerging innovative practices and see patterns in the K–12 innovation landscape.
Use the Canopy tagging system to foster a common language and field-wide taxonomy to enable conceptual clarity and shared learning across organizations and projects.
Identify potential schools for case study or survey samples to build evidence of the impact of innovative learning environments.
The Canopy Project is powered by nominations from organizations that work with innovative K-12 schools, but are not schools themselves. If your research is focused on engaging, effective, and empowering learning, become a Canopy Nominator
School Leaders
School leaders and educators are the heart of the movement toward engaging, effective, and empowering learning for all.
Find innovative practices your school community is interested in and connect with other schools leveraging those practices.
Understand trends in education innovation and how schools around the country are designing in ways that are responsive to their students and communities.
Redesigning school is challenging; many Canopy schools have adopted innovative learning models rather than starting from scratch in redesigning their learning environments.