Redesigning
BPS Innovation Incubator
Each BPS Team Innovation Fellowship carries a value of $5000. We thank the Nellie Mae Foundation for their support.
We are currently accepting applications for our Winter Cohorts! They are due November 23rd. If you have any questions, please contact Karissa Goff (kgoff@bostonpublicschools.org).
WHAT IS IT?
School Retool is a professional learning fellowship that helps school leaders and educators redesign school culture to support Deeper Learning practices using small, scrappy experiments called “hacks”
WHO’S BEHIND IT?
In collaboration with Boston Public Schools, School Retool will launch a cohort of 20 leaders in Fall 2018.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Boston school leaders and educators in public high schools who want to change the status quo of education and are passionate about improving student engagement, student climate and culture, and access to Deeper Learning for ALL students
WHEN IS IT?
The two winter/spring cohorts run concurrently, starting in January 2019.
Cohort 2: 1/15/19,2/5/19,3/12/19,4/4/19
Cohort 3: 1/16/19,2/6/19,3/13/19,4/5/19
WHAT HAPPENS IN SCHOOL RETOOL?
As a School Retool fellow, you will engage in:
- 4 full-day School Retool workshops on
- 1 full-day to shadow a student in your school between Workshop 1 and Workshop 2
- Approximately 1-3 hours per week of other School Retool activities, hacks, and coaching between workshops
CONGRATULATIONS COHORT 1!
Cohort 1, Fall 2018, has been selected. Applications for Cohorts 2 & 3, Winter 2019, will be available in November.
Congratulations to BATA, BINcA, Charlestown, Fenway, JQUS, McCormack, and Snowden International for being accepted into Cohort 1.
BPS Innovation Contests
Coming Soon
Wakanda Challenges for Students
We've been inspired by the Afrofuturism of Wakanda in the movie Black Panther. Here are some design challenges sparked by the film. Please send us yours to add to the list: innovate@bostonpublicschools.org
VIBRANIUM
Vibranium is the fictional metal that powers Wakanda. Harnessed by the technologists of the city with Shuri as the lead, vibranium impacts almost all aspects of life. It enables new ways of traveling, healing, communicating, dressing, and fighting.
Research Challenge: What are our current closest equivalents of vibranium? Research, explain, debate.
Technology Design Challenge: Black Panther's suit absorbs and stores kinetic energy. How might we design a technology we can use in our classroom that stores kinetic energy as potential energy for later use? Begin researching here.
Social Justice Design Challenge: Many of our technologies run on lithium ion batteries. Lithium ion batteries are made in part out of cobalt, which is mined in Africa, often using child labor. How might we free children from working in cobalt mines?