"I'm passionate about solving a problem at my school. Where can I get support?"

 

• The 2019-20 Application will open in spring 2019.

The ImpactLab Fellowship is fast-paced with new content every two weeks, October through June. Fellows start building their solutions right away and content is dripped in as it becomes relevant in the context of this work.
 

The curriculum is efficiently packaged and everything ImpactLab asks you to do is timely and targeted. Each two-week "sprint" consists of new learning(s), coaching, reflection and peer interaction.

Learning groups are small and bi-weekly coaching sessions (held online) are led by an experienced ImpactLab coach. Start times are somewhere from 5pm to 8pm in your time zone.

Formal and informal support is ongoing in our digital community where you will interact not only with peers, but also coaches, guest mentors and program alumni.

We're currently working on ways to reduce costs to $100-$200 per Fellow. We'll have this sorted out before the 2019 application opens.

If you represent a foundation or other philanthropic initiative and are interested in supporting change-making educators please contact us to discuss.

The ImpactLab Fellowship is designed for full-time K-12 teachers and administrators with the following traits:

• You are passionate about solving a problem in your school community
• You want to learn skills that will help you be an effective innovator
• You're coachable and want to be pushed
• You want to expand your professional network
• You have 3+ years of classroom and/or administrator experience
• You have a track record of instructional effectiveness (for teachers)
• You are located in the US

We support educators who are driven to solve a problem in their school community through a project (or “solution”) that is both sustainable and replicable. Projects may take many forms depending on the problem a Fellow is working to solve. Some examples:

1. Problem: Teachers lack data on the efficacy of specific behavior interventions on specific students
   Solution: A phone app-like tool empowering teachers to quickly capture behavior data in real time
    
2. Problem: Teacher burnout
   Solution: A co-teaching model that matches teachers with complementary strengths and redistributes duties accordingly
    
3. Problem: Rising high schoolers with poor sense of career options
   Solution: Process that uncovers each student’s strengths and interests leading into a virtual mentoring program with volunteers from across industries

That depends on what type of project the Fellow created - a technology tool, an after-school program, a school policy or process. However, all Fellow projects culminate in a "How-to Kit" - detailed instructions, shared with the world, enabling anyone, anywhere to replicate the Fellow's project. Here's an example.

For the program itself (coaching sessions, content learning, preparation, reflective writing, and optional elements like mentor sessions) the time commitment is no more than 2 hours per week. That doesn’t include time spent on building your project, which will vary greatly from project to project.

Online and in the early evenings.

The ImpactLab Fellowship is all about building solutions in your current school community. We prefer applicants to have the support of one or more school leaders. If you are the school leader then you're all set :)