{"id":3056128,"date":"2024-01-10T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1016567-4521551.cloudwaysapps.com\/plato-data\/a-new-narrative-how-inclusive-innovation-unlocks-the-power-of-rd-to-transform-education-edsurge-news\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:55:00","slug":"a-new-narrative-how-inclusive-innovation-unlocks-the-power-of-rd-to-transform-education-edsurge-news","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/plato-data\/a-new-narrative-how-inclusive-innovation-unlocks-the-power-of-rd-to-transform-education-edsurge-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Narrative: How Inclusive Innovation Unlocks the Power of R&D to Transform Education – EdSurge News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEducation is made for students. There is no one who knows what students need more than us.\u201d <\/em>\u2014 Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ)<\/em><\/p>\n

Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools. The distance between the \u201cconsumers\u201d (the learners and families) and the \u201ccreators\u201d (the product developers) has been wide, contributing to an R&D process largely uninformed by those most impacted by inequitable conditions. <\/p>\n

Since its inception, the Digital Promise Center for Inclusive Innovation<\/a> (CII) has focused on bridging that distance by engaging educators, students, families and communities in co-leadership, co-research and co-design of education solutions. <\/p>\n

To be clear, community-based organizations have led proximity-centered efforts to transform education for many years. The CII focuses on investing in R&D capacity-building to enable educators, students and families to create solutions with researchers and developers to sustain the work.<\/p>\n

Our work is anchored in the following provocation: <\/p>\n