We're inviting teams from La Salle universities and schools to join us in designing solutions and startup ventures for presentation to potential funders. We also welcome high school and college educators to join as Eduimpact Lab Teaching Fellows, facilitating design thinking exercises to steer student initiatives. By employing Bridging Leadership, Futures Thinking, Human Centered Design, and Lean Startup methodologies, teams will tackle the education sector's problem sets as part of their curriculum or extracurricular endeavors. 

Main Objectives: 

1. cultivate a diverse and productive innovation ecosystem across La Salle units and campuses to address education gaps 

2. equip learners with thinking skills for the 21st Century by co-creating solutions with education stakeholders including high school and university students

3. incubate a pipeline of startups, policy innovations, and system innovations for the education sector by working with government, private sector, industry players, and investors 

The Education Impact Lab is a cross-disciplinary network of education advocates, experts, civil servants, educators, civil society organizations, and private sector actors who work in different parts of the education value chains.  

Technology alone is not enough to transform the education sector, and too often, resources are indiscriminately thrown at problems without understanding what actually works. Furthermore, technology can't simply be transferred from developed countries to resource-limited settings, as solutions that work in one context, usually need to be adapted to be sustainable in another locale.

Using the Bridging Leadership framework, we engage multidisciplinary teams from universities and organizations and work together on the ground to develop technological, social, governance, and instructional innovations that can scale up to address the needs of at least 10 million learners.  

Source: Adapted from the Sana program at MIT     https://sana.mit.edu/about 

Innovation Tracks

Reference:

Juan Miguel Luz  (2022) 

Sample Education Innovation Challenge

Cultivating the La Salle University Global Innovation Ecosystem