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Green is the New Pink: Young Women Environmentalists in Action
LRNG Innovators supports environmental science program designed for young women in rural communities.
Student Work Creates Bridge Between School and Community
LRNG project cultivates community support for public schools by sharing student work and the process...
OneCity Stories: Building Community Through Passion-Driven Learning, Storytelling, and Making
Through supporting student choice and agency, educators help build cross-regional community through storytelling and making.
Making a Future for All: Supporting Passion and Purpose for...
This 2017 LRNG Innovators challenge project provided space for students to pursue an authentic passion...
Craft, Curiosity, and Community: Students Find Passion and Relevance Restoring...
A partnership wtih a nearby vintage auto shop creates opportunities for students to reconnect with...
Engaging Community, History, and Civic Dialogue in Charlottesville
Charlottesville students dig into the stories, told and untold, that make up their community's history,...
Students Tap into Passions to Serve Community With New Making...
Students connect out-of-school passions, new maker skills, and rigorous design thinking to identify a community...
Student Choice and Agency Let Superpowers Shine
Grass Valley Elementary’s maker ed program, supported by an LRNG Innovators Challenge grant, is letting...
Teachers Are the Catalyst: John Legend Highlights LRNG Innovators in...
LRNG Innovators co-founder John Legend highlights the work of educator teams who are building the...
Catching up with LRNG Grantees at Riverside, Tar River, and...
Three 2014 LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees share how their work has progressed, relaying both tremendous...
Novel Art Class Spurs Kids to Collaborate for their Community
“Creating with Confidence” revamps AP Art, using collaboration and design-thinking to spur students to create...
Continuous Impact & Growth: Checking in with DC’s Real World...
Students share their thoughts on what makes Cosby Hunt's Real World History program, one of...
On the River, Lessons about Life and Learning
Students take to the river, building collaboration and problem-solving skills by building and sailing their...
Telling Stories of Place, Change, and Culture in Alaska
The Sitka Story Lab, which helps students explore and express their stories while building writing...
In the Borderlands, Connecting Writing and STEM Learning
Girlhood Remixed and Ink Spilling create formative summer camp experiences for youth nearing adolescence, connecting...
In East L.A., Teenagers Tell New Stories About Their Neighborhood...
Civic engagement projects give students at East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy an opportunity to celebrate...
Behind the Camera, Students Document Life and Learning
At Philadelphia’s Workshop School, students are developing media production skills to shape their school community...
Story Project Builds Community Among Diverse Set of Teens
A new storytelling project in Kansas City—supported by an LRNG Innovators Challenge Grant—builds community among...
Continuous Impact & Growth: Checking in with Previous LRNG Awardees
With the 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge ongoing, we revisit the continuing success of some of...
Teens at the Nexus of Fashion, Gaming, and Technology
A program based in Brooklyn, NY, makes learning enticing for teenagers, combining topics they might...
In Minneapolis, Fostering Black Voices
English teacher Molly Vasich has always been curious about class participation—what prompts it and what...
A Lab That Grows Young Writers
An afterschool writing center offers fourth- and fifth-graders the opportunity to explore their creative capacity upon...
Nashville Library Gives Incarcerated Teens the Freedom to Create
How a local public library in Nashville is using digital media to help teens see...
Immigrant Teens in the South Bronx Learn the Art of...
Teachers in the South Bronx extend opportunities for student-driven online writing projects through the Youth...