For Researchers

Inspire, Innovate, Educate.  These three timeless themes permeate the fabric of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and are engraved in the words and images of Bill and Ida Friday that grace our entrance.  The mission of the Friday Institute is to advance education through innovation in teaching, learning, and leadership.  Bringing together students, teachers, researchers, policy-makers, educational professionals, and other community members, the Friday Institute is a center for fostering collaborations to improve education.

As we progress into the 21st century, our work focuses on preparing students for success in work, life, and citizenry in the global, knowledge-based, technology-rich, culturally-diverse, rapidly-changing world in which they will live.  This task requires helping schools become future-oriented organizations that build upon their traditional strengths while updating curriculum content, teaching practices, management approaches, and technology tools to best serve the students of today and tomorrow.

We conduct research, develop educational resources, provide professional development programs for educators, help create technology infrastructures, advocate to improve teaching and learning, evaluate educational innovations and help inform policy-making.