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Sustaining Impact Over Time

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/gse-218835/2023/spring2/17669
 What’s necessary for an innovation to have impact at scale in the world? Creating the innovation may be the easiest part. Potential users – those the innovation is designed to impact – must find it, try it, stick with it, and implement it with sufficient fidelity to produce the promised results. In T523M students will receive personalized mentorship in developing and vetting a plan to operationalize and fund the necessary resources to sustain scalable impact over time for their existing projects or products. Students will use a tool we call the Impact Sustainability Canvas to capture,... Read more about Sustaining Impact Over Time

Scaling Impact Across Learner & Context Variability

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/gse-218834/2023/spring1/17668
Variability is inevitable. To scale impact, innovations must anticipate relevant variables and design mechanisms to foster the conditions for success across different learners and their contexts. In T522M students will receive personalized mentorship and peer support in working to make their existing projects or products more inclusive. Students will define the Impact Ecosystem(s) - including learners, users, and customers - in which their innovations must thrive. Students will clarify and develop ontologies of the constructs - specific knowledge and skills, dispositions, behaviors, etc. -... Read more about Scaling Impact Across Learner & Context Variability

Evaluating Impact at Scale Through Equity, Evidence, and Ecosystem

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023
https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/gse-220679/2023/fall/17172
T408 exposes the complexities of innovating for impact in education and how a more collaborative and inclusive approach can yield more equitable interventions and results.  In this course, educational impact innovation refers to the development and implementation of novel approaches, strategies, and technologies aimed at addressing educational challenges while actively promoting equity. Through a series of panel conversations with leaders in Education Technology, students will explore the tangible and real-world challenges that organizations confront as they attempt to disrupt inequities... Read more about Evaluating Impact at Scale Through Equity, Evidence, and Ecosystem

Impact by Design

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2023
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We innovate in education to generate positive change, to address inequities, and to create opportunities. In T522 students will work through a sequence of deliverables to learn and apply a process for intentional impact design. Students will choose one of 5 broad areas in need of impact: K-12 education; early childhood learning; workforce preparation; mental and physical health; and social discourse/civic engagement. Tapping existing research, expert guidance, and user input, students will define and target specific changes to drive observable change within their chosen area. Students...

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