The Canopy Project, stewarded by Transcend Education and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), is a collaborative effort to identify and share information about innovative schools and learning environments that put student-centered, equitable practices at the center of their efforts. Educators and organizations from across the country with a focus on creating far more progressive and learner-centered school designs nominate schools from across the country for practices they consider are making a difference in the lives of youth. The Canopy team then surveys leaders from these communities and captures the plethora of practices from across these communities and makes them available to everyone through a dynamic, web-based database where anyone can look for schools implementing specific practices, such as effective ELL practices, career-focused practices, and social-emotional learning practices. Chelsea Waite, a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education who initially started the project at the Clayton Christensen Institute and continues to direct the project at CRPE, along with Janette Avelar, a Research Fellow at CRPE for the Project, discuss the project, including its intent and their hope that it can assist others in identifying innovations that could prove of value to others with a focus on student-centered and equitable learning opportunities for all.
The Canopy Project, stewarded by Transcend Education and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), is a collaborative effort to identify and share information about innovative schools and learning environments that put student-centered, equitable practices at the center of their efforts. Educators and organizations from across the country with a focus on creating far more progressive and learner-centered school designs nominate schools from across the country for practices they consider are making a difference in the lives of youth. The Canopy team then surveys leaders from these communities and captures the plethora of practices from across these communities and makes them available to everyone through a dynamic, web-based database where anyone can look for schools implementing specific practices, such as effective ELL practices, career-focused practices, and social-emotional learning practices. Chelsea Waite, a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education who initially started the project at the Clayton Christensen Institute and continues to direct the project at CRPE, along with Janette Avelar, a Research Fellow at CRPE for the Project, discuss the project, including its intent and their hope that it can assist others in identifying innovations that could prove of value to others with a focus on student-centered and equitable learning opportunities for all.