OUTREACH
We connect resources in order to design a better community and world.
Our mission extends far beyond our physical school building.
The Learning Lab will be an inviting place for learning for everyone in the community through our mission of Outreach.
After establishing a strong and cohesive school culture, we will begin to develop working relationships with schools in the community to gain insight into how our school and college of education may help them to meet their own identified problems of practice. We will offer summer institutes for teacher-driven, student-focused learning centered on self-improvement to one’s professional practice.
In addition to collaborations with area schools, the lab school will also offer summer and after-school camps for community children with built-in scholarships for accessibility, access for UL Lafayette faculty research for improving education on a larger scale, and teacher candidate, master’s and doctoral degree candidate immersion in cutting edge educational practices. These efforts extend the reach and impact of UL Lafayette’s College of Education and Human Development to the larger regain and state, as well as potential national and global impact.
OUR
COLLECTIVE
We work to unite interested community and education stakeholders to use their collective knowledge, skills, and resources for systemized, sustainable, and student-centered policy and practice reform.
Our outreach broadens by looking outward.
The Learning Lab Collective is an educational change organization designed to disseminate knowledge generated in the model Learning Lab outward into community schools.
The Collective approach unites interested community and education stakeholders to use their collective knowledge, skills, and resources for systemized, sustainable, and student-centered policy and practice reform.
The Learning Lab Collective works to inform and implement best educational practices in community schools through building relationships between varying education stakeholders, capitalizing on community assets as partners in education, and renewing opportunities for children and families by pooling resources to design a better community and world.