WE BELIEVE IN THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF EDUCATION.
The Innovative Schools Cooperative is a national network of innovative independent schools, including renowned schools in New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and more. Our schools represent the leading edge of education research, theory, and practice. Our laboratory schools model innovative practice that helps change how parents and families think about education, schooling, and student learning.
Brightworks
San Francisco, CA
Brightworks is a K-12 learning community that creates a meaningful learning experiences through hands-on, project-based experiential learning. Students use real tools, real materials, and real problems to develop a love of learning, curiosity about the world, tenacity to think big, and persistence to do amazing things.
East Bay School for Boys
Berkeley, CA
The East Bay School for Boys empowers middle school boys to cultivate their intellectual, physical, and emotional selves. Based on the latest research about how boys learn and what they need to succeed, we strive to build intellectually curious and emotionally intelligent youth who bring powerful, positive, and peaceful change to our world.
Hudson Lab School
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Hudson Lab School empowers every child. Children follow their curiosity and interests through interdisciplinary project-based learning and high quality academics. They celebrate each child's unique character to propel his or her learning. Their goal? To instill a love of learning. To teach children how to design and build a life in which they can thrive.
Lab51 (One Stone)
Boise, ID
One Stone Lab School is a year-round, student-led school designed to make the world a better place. Innovative, collaborative education programs empower high school students to learn and practice 21st century skills through experiential service, innovative initiatives, social entrepreneurship, and the radical reinvention of learning.
Millennium School
San Francisco, CA
Millennium School imagines a world where “success” is defined by practicing wisdom, love, and conscious action in all that we do. Millennium believes in the infinite potential of each students’ inner genius. They foster this development through an integrated, dynamic curriculum where students are actively engaged in the creation of their own learning journey.
Portfolio School
New York, NY
Portfolio School is an independent project-based school in NYC currently serving grades K-6, adding a grade each year until we become a K-12 school. We teach academic and design skills through hands-on, real-world projects. Our students learn core academic skills, but more importantly, they learn to problem-solve, iterate, take risks, inquire, innovate, influence and inspire others.
Revolution School
Philadelphia, PA
Revolution School is a new high school in Philadelphia where students co-create their unique academic journey. Their dynamic, nimble education model of experiential learning and community partnerships provides students with the relevant skills to become independent investigators and shapers of the world around them.
Red Bridge Education
San Francisco, CA
Red Bridge is a new model of K-8 education designed to develop a sense of agency in every child. They define agency as the ability to set meaningful goals and have the will and skill to achieve them. This puts every student on the path to becoming a lifelong learner – so that no matter what the future looks like, they have the capacity to adapt and flourish.
Workshop Middle School
Brooklyn, NY
Workshop Middle School is an innovative small school for creative, curious, and big-hearted students and families in Brooklyn, New York. Students learn advanced academic and character skills through immersive, hands-on learning projects. Everything about our school is designed to match the specific abilities, interests, and challenges of early adolescents. Middle school can change the world!
Learn with us!
Each Spring, our school founders join together to learn and grow. We share our biggest challenges, our brightest successes, and our boldest questions. .
Each Winter, school leadership from our schools host interested school leaders and instructional leaders for workshops on innovative school practice. Join us to learn in an intimate environment directly from our school founders.
