{"id":11963,"date":"2017-01-31T16:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?page_id=11963"},"modified":"2017-07-28T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T21:19:26","slug":"lrng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/lrng\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNG Innovators Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KOMwn4-TBVY?rel=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lrng_partner_logos_horizontal-1024x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" data-no-retina \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beginning in 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrng.org\/innovators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LRNG Innovators<\/a> asked teachers to partner with their community to design programs that help young people connect their out-of-school interests with in-school learning. Their inspiring programs raised a next question: how do young people discover an interest that can foster engagement and learning in the first place?<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge: Spark an Interest; Ignite a Passion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its third year, LRNG Innovators launched <a href=\"\/lrng2017\">a new challenge<\/a>, inviting educators to imagine engaging ways to help young people explore their interests, thereby igniting a passion that can lead to college, to a career, or having a positive impact on their community. We sought proposals for programs, curricula, or projects that actively help youth discover interests connecting the spheres of their lives, both in and out of school, and provide potential future opportunities.<\/p>\n\n<p>Learn more about the work of the LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/lrng2017\">The 2017 grantees<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See the works-in-progress of <a href=\"\/lrng2015\">2015 LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read about the work from the <a href=\"\/lrng2014\">2014 \u201cNo Bells, No Walls\u201d Challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/why-connected-learning\">Why Connected Learning?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/WoQY9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up<\/a><\/strong> for Educator Innovator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in 2014, LRNG Innovators asked teachers to partner with their community to design programs that help young people connect their out-of-school interests with in-school learning. Their inspiring programs raised a next question: how do young people discover an interest that can foster engagement and learning in the first place? The 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge: [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":11964,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12423,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11963\/revisions\/12423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}