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Learning from Innovation
Designing for Students

Fig Education Lab collaboratively researches and designs initiatives to help all learners lead lives that are personally fulfilling, socially connected, and economically secure. 

What We Offer

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Holistic Services

We help organizations with research, evaluation and design projects. 

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Homegrown Programs

We create and launch programs that improve academic and life outcomes. 

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Who We Serve

We work with nonprofits, schools, and higher education institutions to design and research programs that help all students thrive.

 

We specialize in programs and organizations committed to closing gaps for under-resourced individuals. We have expertise working with young people living in poverty, bilingual students, rural youth, and students with disabilities.

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Data and research capacity building

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Postsecondary retention

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School relationships and culture

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Teacher induction and well-being

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Career-connected learning

Current Focus Areas

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Fostering student dialogue!

Schools across the country are trying out VitalVoices, a dialogue and self-awareness curriculum that we have found to foster belonging and perspective-taking.

 

At a time when learning the skills of productive dialogue could not be more important, we found VitalVoices to have a significant improvement in student perception that they could get along with those different from themselves. Join the VitalVoices family to see for yourself!

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What We Are Excited About Right Now

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Clients and Collaborators

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Logo for SeekHealing, a nonprofit offering social health programs to combat loneliness and foster human connection
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Logo for Anna Julia Cooper School, a faith-based K-8 school in Richmond’s East End providing support and scholarships
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Logo for The ZONE, a community initiative in Northeast Spokane focused on addressing disparities and creating opportunities f
Logo for Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (A-B Tech), dedicated to education and workforce development
Logo for Longwood University, a historic public university in Virginia dedicated to fostering citizen leaders through traditi
Logo for Luminary Labs, a strategy and innovation consultancy founded in 2009
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Logo for WGU Labs, an affiliate of Western Governors University, focused on innovative solutions in education and workforce d
Logo for 4.0 Schools, an organization dedicated to creating an equitable and diverse education system that empowers families
Logo for the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a non-partisan research center focused on innovative solutions to
Logo for a tuition-free, open-admission K-12 public school serving the greater Bremerton region, focused on empowering future
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We want to learn with you.

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