At the Latinx Education Collaborative, we think a lot about what the world would look like if the number of Latinx teachers mirrored the number of Latinx students in K-12. Today, there are roughly three times as many Latinx students in schools than there are Latinx educators.
Crafting Empathy through Design Thinking
Reaching Equity through Human-Centered Design
While LEANLAB focuses on traditional accelerator metrics like market traction and financials, their model also prioritizes the acceleration of products that truly build the capacity of educators to impact students. This priority is most apparent in their focus on equity and human-centered design in Kansas City and beyond.
All Data Points toward Equity
Honoring Educators through a “Child-Centered” approach
Indigo Core Values
Making a Living, Building a Future
Bringing Classroom Expertise to EdTech Development
rue human-centered design doesn’t just mean checking in with educators at the early stages of development. Each element of our product, from the text on a button to the prioritization of a new feature, is designed in response to iterative testing with real teachers and students in a variety of classrooms.
Supporting (Not Replacing) Teachers and Students with Technology
Conversation as Iteration: Using Human-Centered Design Every Day
Finding equity in an Inequitable Landscape
Empowering Leadership through Equity
egardless of district size or performance we frequently hear “If I bring somebody in, it means I don’t know what I’m doing.” This is interesting to us because many other areas of service delivery within school districts either require or offer training so those resources can do their jobs better. The same does not seem to be true for administrators.