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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...
Spark an Interest; Ignite a Passion: Applications Now Being Accepted...
LRNG Innovators is launching its third challenge, inviting educators to imagine engaging ways to help...
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...
LRNG Innovators Challenge Grant Recipients Selected
We're excited to announce the 11 teams of educators who are building the future, today,...
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...
An LRNG Challenge to Educators in 2016: How Will You...
New funding opportunities through LRNG will support connected learning by leveraging rich resources in communities...
Making Way for Makerspaces with Pop Up and Make
The “Pop Up and Make” project in Greenville, North Carolina—supported by a 2014 LRNG Innovation...
Applications Now Being Accepted for 2015 LRNG Innovators Challenge Grant
Through a newly launched grant competition, LRNG Innovators is challenging teachers to reach beyond the...
Announcing Collective Shift and Launch of the New LRNG
Today, the National Writing Project and Educator Innovator join partners across the country in announcing...
Live, From Petaluma, It’s the Junior High School News
Seventh and eighth graders at Kenilworth Junior High in Petaluma, CA host a live news...
Grants Stimulate a Summer of Science Learning for Kids in...
Supported by a 2014 LRNG Innovation challenge grant, some 200 students in rural New Mexico...
LRNG: “Passion Projects” Encourage Creativity, Connected Learning, and STEM Interests
LRNG-funded project in Riverside, CA builds multi-themed, interest-driven learning stations for students to explore, collaborate,...
For Students in D.C., History Comes Alive for the Year
Real World History—a unique afterschool elective through Inspired Teaching—gives students the chance to explore the...
LRNG: Making Worlds with Student Hactivists
“Making Our Worlds”—a project in Charlotte, NC that was funded through a 2014 LRNG Innovation...
Designed Equity: Reflection on Youth-focused Game Jam in South Central...
Educator innovator Antero Garcia shares his observations about a game jam in LA and some...
What a Game Jam Taught Los Angeles Teens—and Their Teachers
See how the Critical Design and Gaming School (C:\DAGS) in South Central Los Angeles has...
LRNG: We Too Are Connecticut
Students in southern Connecticut have been connected and inspired by the collaborative digital media project,...
Leading an Orchestra of Learning
Through an LRNG Innovation Challenge grant, Eastern Heights Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota has...
Linking Communities with STEM puts Compassion and Service into Practice
See how youth from socially and economically diverse backgrounds have come together, through an LRNG...
Middle School Youth Research, Create, and Take Action to Affect...
Grounded in Youth Participatory Action Research and supported by an LRNG Innovation Challenge grant, students...
Multimedia Journal Helps Students Heal and Be Heard
At Chicago’s Tilden Career Community Academy, high school students double as enterprising reporters. They film,...
