LEAP Innovations

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LEAP Innovations is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization focused on transforming our system of learning to provide holistic, tailored experiences for every student. We work on both the supply and demand sides of personalized learning, innovating on the ground with teachers, schools and districts while also advancing research, practices and education technologies. Our tools for personalized learning—namely, the LEAP Learning Framework and the LEAP Personalized Learning Surveys—are available free of charge nationally, and are used across 23 states.

Learn more about our work at http://leapinnovations.org.

Twitter: @leapinchicago
Facebook: facebook.com/LEAPinnovationseducation/

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United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Founded date

2014

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Mar 2, 2026	LEAP Innovations, Next Generation Learning Challenges Merge to Transform Learning	Merger expands national capacity to advance equitable, student-centered learning for the age of AI Equipping students for the future demands a transformation in education. By formally uniting LEAP and NGLC, we will accelerate the movement t...
Sep 11, 2025	New Report Highlights Practitioner-Tested Priorities for AI in Education	LEAP Innovations and Chicagoland Coalition recommend action steps to prepare educators and students for the future of learning and work CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, September 11, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based n...
Sep 5, 2024	LEAP Innovations and Playlab Launch Chicagoland Education Coalition on Innovation in Artificial Intelligence	Phyllis Locket, Scott Frauenheim, Jennie Magiera, and Mary Beck pose for a photo during the Coalition's first meeting. Jennie Magiera presents to the Coalition. Scott Frauenheim, CEO of LEAP Innovations explores AI tools with Coalition memb...
Jul 30, 2024	LEAP Innovations Unveils Pilot Network Cohort 8: A New Era of Educational Transformation in Chicago	LEAP Innovations launches Pilot Network Cohort 8 LEAP Innovations announces the launch of Pilot Network Cohort 8, an ambitious initiative aimed at revolutionizing education through personalized learning. By partnering with these innovative ...
May 14, 2024	LEAP Innovations and Modern Teacher Join Forces to Transform Public Education	LEAP Innovations joins forces with Modern Teacher to revolutionize the educational experience through personalized, innovative programs and services. Today’s learners and leaders are facing increasingly complex academic, work, technological...
Feb 29, 2024	LEAP Innovations Appoints Scott Frauenheim as New CEO, Launching a Bold Vision for the Future of Education	Scott Frauenheim, CEO of LEAP Innovations At LEAP Innovations, we design personalized professional learning and coaching for schools, districts, and community-based organizations. Our approach is grounded in research and is committed to cre...
Feb 19, 2018	Jefferson Education Accelerator Winds Down, Rebrands to Focus on Edtech Reviews and Procurement	For the past three years, Bart Epstein has been busy running the Jefferson Education Accelerator, a “research accelerator” based at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. As a part-investment, part-research firm, the accele...
Nov 21, 2017	Co-Working in Every Neighborhood: Chicago's 120+ Shared Work Spaces	Picture this: You’re an entrepreneur with a great idea, a few employees and a whole lot of potential. Now you just need an office. Turns out you’ve hit the the office space jackpot if you’re building a company in Chicago. Over the last few ...
Aug 31, 2017	What Happens When Standardized Test Scores Don’t Reflect Student Growth?	It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students who have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the...
May 8, 2017	Is Meaning Lost When Data Is Exported? Why Reasoning Mind Takes a 'Wait And See' Approach	If you take data out of context, does it lose its meaning? This question constantly plagues Steven Gaudino, VP of Product Management at Reasoning Mind. The Houston-based nonprofit organization develops online blended learning programs that ...
May 3, 2017	Fusion: Bringing Personalized Learning Together	At its core, personalized learning means giving every student opportunities to learn in ways that connect and support them to the fullest extent possible. It’s a tall order—and scores of resources and organizations have emerged to help scho...
Mar 28, 2017	Can SEL Support Personalized Learning? How One Chicago School is Finding Out	Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden, a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. Through the use of learner profiles and online programs, teachers are better able to ...
Jan 3, 2017	Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle	Education buzzwords come and go, just as the fads they sometimes represent. But some endure and come back, much as in the Gartner Hype Cycle—or perhaps as in a metaphorical Ferris wheel, in which concepts take their seats and then rise and ...
May 12, 2016	How It Takes a Village—and a Summit—to Redress Education Inequality	Gone were the tables where entrepreneurs with their Apple laptops and iPads showed off their edtech apps. In their place were students from east Los Angeles and other parts of the country sporting XQ School Project tee-shirts who spoke fran...
Apr 19, 2016	Heard & Overheard at the ASU+GSV Summit	This post has been updated with news and observations from the second day of the conference. “Inequality is the parent of revolution.” The quote, attributed to Aristotle, occupied one of the flurry of slides accompanying Michael Moe’s welco...
Mar 30, 2016	‘It’s Personalized, Online, and Blended’: How to Make Edtech Buzzwords Substantive	Personalized Learning. 21st Century Skills. Social Emotional Learning. Growth Mindset. Education has a long tradition of being rife with buzzwords, and these are just some of the latest ones thrown about today. Buzzwords are not inherently ...
Feb 29, 2016	Leap Innovations Looks at What Works With ThinkCERCA, Lexia Reading Core5	How about this for a "leap day" special: Chicago nonprofit, LEAP Innovations today is releasing the results of its 2014-15 pilot network evaluation--a project that involved 15 schools and more than 1,600 students from across Chica...
Dec 2, 2015	Announcing This Year's 50 on Fire Winners	Tonight, we unveiled the 50 on Fire, a collection of companies, CEOs, startups, and entrepreneurs that are driving the city's innovation economy forward. From Avant, one of Chicago's four Unicorns, to Todd Connor, Executive Director of the ...
Sep 24, 2015	Where Principals Go to Get Schooled in Blended Learning	On a recent August summer day, I had the opportunity to join an enthusiastic group of over 30 principals and assistant principals who were focused on leading a transition to blended learning in their schools. They brainstormed ideas using s...
Jul 28, 2015	What Collaboration in Chicago’s Education Technology Ecosystem Looks Like	Last week, the EdTech Collaborative Personalized Learning Summit brought together more than 400 teachers, entrepreneurs, and administrators across two sunny Chicago days. The Thursday sessions featured panels and hands-on activities were ge...
Jun 17, 2015	NGLC Funding Hits $25M for 49 “Breakthrough Schools”	Here’s a different sort of Ka’Ching for your week. The Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), an initiative from EDUCAUSE which has worked with regional partners over the years to bring innovation to schools with the help of local part...
Mar 4, 2015	Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Proof	When the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) began hosting the iHub Pitch Games in 2014 in partnership with the NewSchools Venture Fund, the goals were simple: Find a way to bring teachers and developers of edtech together to share f...
Mar 3, 2015	Ms. Stevens Goes To Washington	Katrina Stevens, who led the EdSurge Summit team for a year and played a pivotal role in startup EdtechMaryland at the same time, has settled for one job--this with the US Department of Education as a senior advisor in the office of educati...
Feb 27, 2015	What It Takes to Build the Next Edtech Hotspot	New York’s Economic Development Corporation (NYEDC) recently asked the local edtech community to share ideas for ways to build a vibrant edtech ecosystem in the city. The agency is beginning to see edtech’s potential as an engine for econom...
Feb 10, 2015	How the 'Harbormaster Network' Plans to Spread Nationwide Personalized Learning	Like tech entrepreneurship, building and leading new schools can be overwhelming and finance-draining. But what can even be more difficult is figuring out just how to best personalize for the community that you intend to serve. Oftentimes, ...
Jan 26, 2015	NewSchools Spins Off New, For-Profit Venture Fund	NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is not coy about its role in reforming education, starting with championing the charter school cause. “The charter school movement might look different today had it not been for NewSchools supporting these ent...
Aug 18, 2014	How Chicago is Bringing Together Edtech Entrepreneurs and Educators	When exploring the current landscape in edtech, it’s hard not to be excited. There is a proliferation of smart, scrappy entrepreneurs creating solutions to long-standing challenges in schools and classrooms. Edtech incubators and accelerato...
	Making Edtech Efficacy Actionable	Edtech is an investment, but how do you know if the investment you made is actually getting results? In this webinar we will focus on the key criteria you need to think about when evaluating the efficacy of edtech products before, during an...
	Report: LEAP’s Pilot Network	LEAP Pilot Network is a LEAP Innovation project that connects educators and tech innovators through pilot programs around personalized learning. The Pilot Network, based in Chicago, works directly with edtech entrepreneurs and educators to ...
	Report: LEAP’s Pilot Network	LEAP Pilot Network is a LEAP Innovation project that connects educators and tech innovators through pilot programs around personalized learning. The Pilot Network, based in Chicago, works directly with edtech entrepreneurs and educators to ...

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When was LEAP Innovations founded?

LEAP Innovations was founded in 2014.

What has the press written about LEAP Innovations?

Parsers VC has collected 31 articles mentioning LEAP Innovations, among them “LEAP Innovations, Next Generation Learning Challenges Merge to Transform Learning” (Mar 2, 2026) and “New Report Highlights Practitioner-Tested Priorities for AI in Education” (Sep 11, 2025).

Is LEAP Innovations still active?

Yes, LEAP Innovations is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 24, 2026.