Leanlab Education and Align R&D today announced a strategic partnership to advance education research and development in an era of rapid technological change. The two education R&D organizations will collaborate to strengthen research infrastructure, expand access to evidence, and ensure that insights from the study of emerging tools reach educators and innovators.
Both organizations are working toward the same goal: to produce and share evidence that keeps pace with a rapidly changing landscape and informs school and education system decision-making. As learning solutions evolve faster than traditional research cycles allow, we believe it takes multiple perspectives and complementary infrastructure to generate insights that are rigorous, timely, and actually useful to educators and decision-makers.
“Align R&D's experience spanning large-scale federal programs, major research institutions, and philanthropy gives us a rare bird's-eye view of the American education R&D landscape. Their expertise, paired with our nimble approach and edtech expertise, positions us to build the initiatives and infrastructure this moment demands,” said Katie Boody Adorno, Leanlab Education Founder and CEO.
Align R&D Founding Partner Erin Higgins added, “Our organizations share the belief that our education system should be designed with the best information we have available. Through this partnership, we can explore how we achieve that vision through new research infrastructure, cross-sector partnerships, strategy, and measurement approaches.”
At the center of the collaboration is a north star focus on improving student outcomes, and a shared belief that producing and sharing evidence must be more accessible, produced faster, and aligned more closely to the decisions educators and systems actually face.
About Leanlab Education
Leanlab Education is an education R&D lab at the intersection of research, product, and practice. Through rigorous, nimble methodologies and its AGILE Network of school partners, Leanlab helps edtech companies and school systems validate innovations and build the evidence base needed for informed adoption decisions.
About Align R&D
Align R&D works through capacity building as well as research and funding strategy to build an education R&D ecosystem aligned to the priority needs of today and the emerging challenges of tomorrow — one where every level of the education system can operate based on the most up-to-date information about what could work for the decision at hand.