Educational Innovations Laboratory LAB-ED SUMMA

Its objective is to identify innovative solutions to address the main educational gaps in the region. At the same time, it seeks to strengthen and model educational innovation processes in the region, aimed at guaranteeing the right to education and reducing educational inequalities.

What is it?

SUMMA’s Educational Innovations Laboratory, created in 2020 in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), is a model for promoting regional educational innovation. By searching for, identifying, and supporting innovative educational initiatives, the model aims to generate, first, rigorous evidence that can be disseminated in the region. Secondly, the model aims to scale the innovations that achieve the greatest impact on the quality and equity of learning, in alliance and coordination with the Ministries of Education of the region. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, the Laboratory has a cycle of five annual stages: 1) definition of the regional agenda; 2) regional open competition; 3) support and accompaniment; 4) evaluation and dissemination of knowledge; and 5) support for scaling up.

Project objectives

1

To identify and promote the growth of educational innovations through the delivery of differentiated support, according to their stage of development.

2

To generate knowledge from new evaluations, and support practices that show higher levels of effectiveness in priority issues in the region.

3

To seek appropriation mechanisms by institutions and Ministries of Education that support the replicability and scalability of educational innovations identified by the model.

Impact on society

Some figures

78

Innovations identified by the Innovation Contest.

66

Promising Innovations

12

Consolidated Innovations

11

Applicant countries

63%

of the applications were made by private non-profit institutions.

18%

of the applications were made by private for-profit institutions.

19%

of the applications were made by centralized, subnational, and local public institutions.

37%

of the applied innovations were educational programmes

19%

of the applied innovations were digital learning platforms.

Other projects

PRISA - PANAMA PROGRAMME

It arises from the urgent need to address the educational gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, which have impacted the loss of learning of thousands of Panamanian students. MEDUCA and SUMMA collaborate with professional and technical resources to advance in the policy of learning recovery for the year 2022.

KIX LAC - HUB

The Knowledge and Innovation Exchange Centre (KIX) for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a space for collaboration and exchange for the innovation of educational leaders from Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

KIX GLOBAL - HONDURAS

The project Adapting and Scaling Approaches to Teacher Professional Development on a scale in Honduras 2020-2022 is part of the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange- GPE-KIX initiative promoted by the Global Partnership for Education and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

EVALUATIONS

SUMMA's evaluation area seeks to rigorously and systematically study the effects and results of educational policies and programmes aimed at improving the quality and equity of the region's educational systems. From an educational justice perspective, the evaluation area deploys diverse methodological strategies, which are both quantitative and qualitative.

EDU - LAC IMPACT FUND

The Global Fund for the Development of Pilot and Impact Evaluations was born in 2019 from SUMMA's collaboration with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) under the initiative “Building a global ecosystem of evidence for teaching improvement”, funded by the BHP Foundation, as part of its Global Education Equity Programme.

CHAKA - EFFECTIVE PRACTICES PROGRAMME

It is a programme that promotes the improvement of educational quality and equity through deep learning. It seeks to promote collaborative learning within the educational communities, among the schools in the network and with its ecosystem.

CO+INCIDE NETWORK

Latin American platform for collaboration with educational impact. It promotes collaboration among the main actors in the educational world. It aims to develop a virtuous ecosystem of collaboration in research and innovation that accelerates educational improvement in the region.

GEM LAC REPORT

Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) is an independent, accredited and evidence-based report published by UNESCO. GEM LAC is the Latin American and Caribbean version, prepared by SUMMA in partnership with UNESCO.

NATIONAL R&D&I ECOSYSTEMS

Regional Research on National Ecosystems of Research, Development, and Innovation (R&D&I) in Education is an unprecedented study that, with a cutting-edge methodology of networking, information gathering and systematization, presents the current situation of these ecosystems in eight Latin American countries.

TPD@SCALE COALITION

Coalition for the Global South: seeks to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4, aimed at ensuring inclusive and quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for everybody.

“AVANZANDO JUNTAS” (ADVANCING TOGETHER) NETWORK

The project “Strengthening educational leadership skills to improve the resilience of kindergarten and nursery schools, SLEP Gabriela Mistral” is a SUMMA initiative in collaboration with the Local Public Education Service (SLEP) Gabriela Mistral that seeks to strengthen leadership skills, collaborative work and networking of directors at these educational establishments.

Strategic partners

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