Tag: 4.0 Schools

Katie Boody Carrie Markel Lean Lab

Dying schools taught Katie Boody how to build

By Tommy Felts / June 10, 2016

Editor’s note: Katie Boody is a co-founder of The Lean Lab, a Kansas City-based education incubator that helps educators create and implement innovative ideas in schools to help students. The Lean Lab co-founder Carrie Markel contributed to this piece. Opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Both the schools I taught at are…

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The Lean Lab will award $100K to education entrepreneurs

By Tommy Felts / June 10, 2016

Local efforts to inject innovation into education received a boost Friday as The Lean Lab announced fellows in its incubator program will earn seed capital for their projects aimed at disrupting traditional learning.   Founded in 2013, The Lean Lab welcomed five new teams of fellows from around the nation for its incubator, which develops…

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The Lean Lab partners with 4.0 Schools to innovate KC education

By Tommy Felts / April 11, 2016

More than 100 years ago, our education system was designed and built to prepare an early-1900s workforce for the industrial age. Today, children are learning with iPads and Youtube, but the bones of the traditional liberal arts structure remain similar to what our great-grandparents experienced. Local education innovation incubator The Lean Lab hopes to change…

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