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The
Innovation
League
Pilot Program
2018
www. theinnovationleague.org 857 999 5488
Mission
The Innovation League exists to increase the
number of students from underserved
communities attending competitive colleges.
We achieve this through mobilizing PhD
students to facilitate research projects with
young people.
The Problem In 2015 college graduates
on average had incomes
that were
Today, more than ever, Americans need to
64%
invest in higher education to meet the
demands of a growing global economy.
College is the best investment that young
higher
people can make in their future. For colleges
and universities to serve as gateways to than high school
economic opportunity and social mobility, graduates
they must be open to young people from
diverse backgrounds. We believe access to
a high-quality college education is a civic Highly competitive colleges enroll:
right.
With an ever growing attainment gap, and 3% of students from
families in the
declining graduation rates, many young bottom economic
people have lost faith in the power of quartile
education to change their lives. We know
that selective institutions have the resources
from the top
needed to support exceptional outcomes for
underserved students, including graduation 72% economic quartile
rates and post-college labor market success.
Yet, the nation’s most selective colleges
admit the smallest share of low-income
students.The Innovation league
In Massachusetts, 65% of students from lower income MASS.
backgrounds enrolled in college, but only 50% of them
entered 4 year institutions.
Despite benefiting from the best public school systems in
the country, MA schools report a persistent attainment
gap. For example, only 53% of economically
disadvantaged students scored proficient or higher in the
2017 10th grade MCAS tests, compared to 83% of their
wealthier peers.
Community
The Innovation League’s programs are designed to
support young people from underserved communities in Self-Efficacy
Massachusetts. We focus on making an impact across
three key areas: Critical
Aspirations Thinking
Being part of The Innovation League increases students
Advice
sense of belonging and academic self-efficacy, as they
visit campus and work collaboratively with PhD
researchers in small seminar groups.
Attainment
We mobilize PhD researchers to share their expertise with
school students, advancing their subject-level knowledge
and key academic skills, including: critical thinking,
research and communication.
Awareness
The Innovation League increases students’ awareness of
effective college application techniques by connecting
students to expert information, advice and guidance on
admissions and financial aid processes.Partnerships and Impact
The Innovation League is supported by AccessEd.
AccessEd has been established by the co-founders of
The Brilliant Club in the UK, Jonny Sobczyk and Simon
Coyle. The Brilliant Club is an award-winning and
independently evaluated charity that exists to increase
the number of students from under-represented
backgrounds progressing to highly-selective universities
in the UK. It does this by mobilizing the PhD community
to share its academic expertise with state schools. Impact Evaluation
Since establishing The Brilliant Club in 2012, Jonny and
PhD researcher led tutorials
Simon have grown a system-level organisation that is in the UK make it significantly
now active across the UK, working with over 30 leading more likely an under-
universities and over 500 schools. This year, it will represented student will
mobilise 600 PhD researchers to deliver programs of progress to a highly-selective
university-style tutorials in those schools to over 10,000 university.
young people. Learn more about our
impact evaluation:
As well as operating at a national scale, Brilliant Club
programs also have credible evidence of impact. The www.thebrilliantclub.org
average for low-income school leavers progressing to a
highly-selective university is 11%. An evaluation by the AccessEd Network
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
found that the average for The Brilliant Club in the UK is United States
58%. Further, the evaluation found that The Brilliant Club
has a statistically significant impact on the likelihood a South Africa
student will progress to a highly-selective university, Hong Kong
compared to a control group.
United Kingdom
AccessEd exists to support education leaders in other Republic of Ireland
countries to design and pilot new university access
programmes that mobilize PhD researchers. The
Innovation League belongs to the AccessEd network,
benefitting from the collective expertise of researcher
and practitioners engaged with fair access to higher
education globally.Program Outline Pilot 2018
Registration by 5th Feb
Academic Seminars March-April
typically weekly
6 Academic Seminars after school
led by PhD Students
Visit to College
Campus Day 1 April-May
over a weekend
Research Admissions
Groups Advice Session
April-May
Visit to College Parents/
Campus Day 2 guardians
invited
Research Feedback and
Symposium Graduation CeremonyProgram Details
Registration Academic Seminars
The Innovation League’s Modelled off the style of learning at universities
program is aimed at middle like Harvard, MIT and Oxford, students study in
and high school students that small seminar groups of up to 6 students led by
have demonstrated the an expert PhD student. Over the course of the
potential and drive to succeed program students participate in 6 university-style
at a competitive university. We seminars, facilitated virtually or at the school by
believe schools know their the PhD students. Students are guided through
students best and do not set “super-curricular” content, developing their
enrollment criteria based on critical thinking and communication skills, as they
attainment. We ask teachers to work towards producing a final assignment. The
register students (in cohorts of cohort model builds student community, fostering
15-20) who they believe will their sense of belonging and encouraging
most benefit from the program. academic progress.
As we seek to support
underserved students, we do The Research Project
ask schools to ensure at least
60% of the students registered The Innovation League Research Project is designed
meet our targeting criteria. This to provide students with an authentic experience of
means at least 9 out of 15 life as a researcher. When students visit campus
students should meet at least they work in their small research groups on a
one of the following criteria: defined project. Using what they have learnt over
the course of the academic seminars, students work
• eligible for free school together and prepare to present their findings. The
lunches Research Symposium provides students with an
• high needs opportunity to present their work to their peers, and
• economically disadvantaged where possible teachers and parents/carers, in the
• From historically style of an academic conference. PhD students
underrepresented minority provide students with feedback based on their
background (Black or seminar contributions and their participation in the
African American, American Research Symposium. To graduate from the
Indian or Alaska Native, program the students must typically have attended
Hispanic/Latino, Native at least 90% of the sessions.
Hawaiian or Pacific
Islanders).Admissions Guidance PhD students
During the visit to a university campus, students PhD students complete a
receive guidance about applying to competitive competitive application to
colleges and the different financial aid options participate in the program,
available to them. These sessions help to debunk as well as a full
any myths around the college admissions background check as
process and provide students with practical required by the school. All
strategies on how to apply to college. Students researchers complete
also hear from peer role models about their training that is delivered
experience of applying to and studying at by qualified teachers. The
competitive institutions. The Innovation League training includes
will seek to connect students to high-quality instruction on how to
information and guidance design and deliver a
super-curricular course.
Researchers receive
guidance and training on
how to create an inclusive
Digital Programs and engaging
environment for students
The Innovation League embraces the possibilities from diverse backgrounds.
that technology offers to engage young people Our researcher training is
and scale our impact on college access. The designed to harness the
Innovation League’s program can be delivered passion and expertise PhD
in-person (with researchers visiting the school students have for their
weekly for academic seminars), or as a blended subject, by helping them
model (with some online seminars). Further structure a robust and
information about implementation is available at engaging program for
the planning stage of the program. All seminar young people.
resources created by the PhD students are made
available to the school and can be accessed
online through our website.Academic Seminar Curriculum
Each course of 6 seminars is individually designed by the PhD tutor and based on their
own cutting-edge research. PhD students produce a seminar handbook in line with our
template, which is designed to ensure that students are supported and challenged
throughout.
Example Curriculum Overviews:
Fictions, Fakes and Mistakes: Writing Roman History
Humanities Wars, Guns and Votes
The Moral Justification of Punishment
Social Sciences
Cyborg Urbanization: Are Cities Natural?
The Fingerprints of Time
Life Sciences
Understanding Viral Infections
Physical Journey to the Coldest Place in the Universe
Sciences
What’s Up is Down: Making Sense of the Quantum World
Rationale
Every seminar handbook includes a rationale that serves as an introduction to the
course, providing a ‘hook’ to get students excited about what they will be learning.
Glossary
Every seminar handbook contains a glossary of key vocabulary to introduce students to
technical and subject-specific vocabulary.
Resources
All seminar and homework resources, including activities and required readings, are
included in each handbook.
Feedback Criteria
Feedback criteria clearly outline success metrics for the academic seminars, including
seminar contributions and homework and the campus research project and final
symposium.Who We Are Polly Goss is the CEO and Founder of The Innovation League. Polly taught English in the UK and was Lead Teacher with The Brilliant Club, before moving to the US. Polly has a Masters in Education from University College London and specialized in gifted pedagogy in urban schools. Polly moved to Cambridge in 2016 with her husband, a graduate student at MIT. Polly loves her new home and being part of the dynamic educational community of Cambridge. Dr. Rajbir Hazelwood is the Program Director at AccessEd, where she leads on the support provided to education leaders to pilot new university access programs. Rajbir completed her PhD on decolonization at Washington University in St. Louis and was Assistant Professor of Modern British History at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. After 10 years in St. Louis, she moved back to London to join The Brilliant Club in 2015. Simon Coyle is the Co-Founder and Director at AccessEd. As a result of his experiences as Teach First teacher in a low-income community in London, Simon was motivated to start The Brilliant Club with his friend and colleague Jonny Sobczyk. The Brilliant Club began as an after school project supporting students to develop the knowledge, skills and ambition to progress to highly- selective university. After a successful pilot, Simon and Jonny secured a founding grant and went on to grow The Brilliant Club to become the largest university access charity for secondary school students in the UK. To learn more about who we are and to get involved with The Innovation League visit: www.theinnovationleague.org www.access-ed.ngo www.thebrilliantclub.org
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