Black River Public School Middle/High

College, Careers and Community: Socratic Methodology and Experiential Learning to Fuel Social Discourse, Engagement, and Our Mission to Prepare Students for College and Life

BRPS will begin a partnership with Paideia Institute to train teachers to strengthen students’ public discourse, reasoning, and civic readiness (6–12). Teachers will learn to lead purposeful discussions based on academic content to cultivate respectful dialogue, critical inquiry, & college-level communication skills. Students will find their voice and build confidence through synthesis and analysis, strengthening writing, listening, public engagement, discourse, and reasoning.

Covenant High School Southwest

Covenant HS Southwest Childcare for Student Parents

Develop intentional spaces to support the 15% - 20% of students who are parents that allow them to attend school more consistently and graduate more quickly. This also provides the children of our students with a positive learning environment from an early age and teaches our students to be better parents. 

Crossroads Charter Academy

Crossroads Esports & Multimedia Classroom

The Esports Lab & Multimedia Classroom will engage students in STEM, teamwork, and creative production. The program combines competitive gaming, streaming, and digital storytelling to promote belonging and 21st-century skills. Beyond technical training, it will serve as a hub for building student community, leadership, and collaboration.  The goal being to connect learners across grades and interests through creativity and shared purpose.

Detroit Achievement Academy

Brandon’s Courtyard: An 8th Grade Legacy Learning Space

What happens when a school asks students to lead the design of their own learning environment? Brandon’s Courtyard is a student-designed outdoor classroom originally imagined by a late classmate. Created in partnership with a landscape designer, this project engages eighth graders through real-world design to use their unique voices as they transform a blank greenspace into a classroom that benefits more than 500 students and families, and will serve even more as our community continues to grow.

Light of the World Academy

Roots of Resilience: Outdoor Project-Based Learning to Build Healthier Futures

Our initiative will engage our middle school students in an outdoor, project-based learning experience in which students collaboratively design, develop, and transform a designated area of school property into a meaningful community space that can be used for years to come. While 1 in 3 Michiganders have experienced 4 or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), this project address this issue head-on, embedding the seven research-supported pillars of resilience into experiential learning. 

Lincoln-King Adams-Young Academy High School

Voices of Detroit

Voices of Detroit empowers students to create peer-led podcasts exploring wellness, substance use prevention, and leadership. Students will script, record, and produce digital stories addressing real challenges facing youth. This innovative model blends creativity, media literacy, and prevention education to amplify student voice and purpose.

Michigan Math and Science Academy Lorraine

Curious Cougar's Lab

The Curious Cougar's Lab will transform an outdated space into a solar-powered STEAM lab where students cook, code, create, and conserve. The space combines a kitchenette, washer/dryer, robotics, 3-D printing stations, computers, drones, and a greenhouse with real-time energy dashboards. It provides hands-on, interdisciplinary learning that builds STEM skills, environmental awareness, student leadership, and community outreach through meaningful, real-world innovation.

University Prep High School

Garden and Greenhouse Integration

The initiative will contribute to a student-run greenhouse on campus, utilizing soil from the school's existing compost program. This initiative addresses the lack of hands-on agricultural and environmental learning opportunities, engaging students in sustainable practices and STEM education. It is innovative as it links waste reduction, soil science, and plant growth in a fully student-led model.

University Prep Art + Design High School

UPAD HS Student-Led Design Collaborative

By July 2027, up to 48 Design Collaborative students will partner with 2 professional designers to lead 2 placemaking projects and host 2 exhibits—engaging 400+ peers, 40+ staff, and community in student-led design experiences that amplify student voice and transform school culture.

West Michigan Aviation Academy

Empowering Student Aviators Through Discovery and Innovation

This initiative provides WMAA students with hands-on aviation experiences through discovery flights, and glider program / Scout tow plane enhancements. It addresses gaps in early flight exposure, realistic training, and aircraft access, fostering proficiency, confidence, and engagement. By combining real-world flight, and glider/tow plane restoration, the program innovatively inspires future aviators and strengthens career pathways in both flight and aviation mechanics.

Canton Preparatory High School

Student-led Podcasting

Canton Preparatory High School will launch a student-led podcast and audio production program where teens explore issues important to youth in a respectful, creative way. The initiative builds communication, technical, and media literacy skills while giving students a positive voice in the school community. This innovative program fills a gap in real-world, career-aligned learning opportunities that foster expression, collaboration, and digital proficiency.

Cornerstone Jefferson-Douglass Academy

EmpowerHER: A Holistic Leadership & Wellness Initiative for Middle School Girls

EmpowerHER offers leadership and wellness programming co-created by students and supported by women organizations and local women mentors. Girls participate in peer circles, wellness workshops, college visits, field trips, cultural events, and leadership conferences. The program blends Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), leadership training, and career readiness to help students envision futures in higher education, business, and community service.

Covenant High School Grand Rapids

Art and Therapy Program in Collaboration with Meaning in Colors for Alternative High School Students

The program will provide weekly small-group art and therapy sessions (15 students per group) led by an art consultant and assisted by School Social Workers, for 30 weeks during the academic year. Meaning in Colors is a local nonprofit organization whose mission is to lead and ensure young adults reach their full potential by breaking down barriers and providing resources and information for empowerment, education, and self-sufficiency.

Detroit Premier Academy

AI Empowerment: Transforming Learning Through Ethical AI Integration

The AI Empowerment Initiative addresses growing gaps in AI readiness by providing students, teachers, and families with meaningful, hands-on AI learning. Through student AI literacy labs, teacher innovation studios, and family tech workshops, the initiative builds digital fluency, empowers educators, and strengthens home–school partnerships, creating an equitable and innovative K–8 model for AI integration.

Detroit Prep

8th Grade Legacy: Detroit Prep Logo & Identity

Typically, schools design from the top down. This project flips that script, inviting students to lead vision setting on a major initiative. To celebrate Detroit Prep’s 10th anniversary, 8th graders will redesign the school’s logo as their class gift. Partnering with a professional designer, students will explore our history, survey peers, and translate Detroit Prep’s story and values into a new visual identity. This work strengthens pride and makes student voice visible in shaping our identity.

Gerald Dawkins Academy

Future DJs Initiative Program

Future DJs integrates science, technology, engineering , and mathematics through the creative lens of music and DJ performance. Through this hands-on experience, students will gain an understanding of the STEM principles that power music and sound-such as acoustics, and digital systems. Connecting STEM concepts to students' cultural and creative interests. Future DJs makes learning relevant and engaging while also helping students see themselves as innovators.

Lincoln-King Adams-Young Academy (6-8)

Future Tech Exposure

Many students have limited exposure to cultures, geography, and global perspectives beyond their neighborhood. This initiative uses VR, interactive maps, and AI simulations to let students “experience the world without leaving school.” It addresses gaps in engagement and real-world context while offering an innovative, immersive approach that strengthens social studies learning for all middle school students.

Michigan Math and Science Academy Dequindre

CYSP Global Leadership & Service Experience

The CYSP Global Leadership & Service Experience will provide structured enrichment for 150 students in MMSA’s Character Education Youth Scholars Program. Students will design and lead local service projects, wellness challenges, and college/career visits that build global citizenship, leadership, and teamwork. 

South Canton Scholars Charter Academy

STEM Tech & Broadcast Innovation Station

The STEM Tech & Broadcast Innovation Station empowers students to explore science, technology, and media through hands-on learning that connects outdoor education, digital communication, and problem solving. Students will use a digital weather station, drones, and broadcast equipment to collect and share data, produce weather reports, and build STEM, communication, and collaboration skills.

The Greenspire School

The Spirit of Inclusion: The Olympics Past, Present, and Future

The project aims to engage students with history, physical education, science, and technology in an immersive study of the Olympics. This triennial project explores specifically the issues of accessibility and inclusion in the Olympics and our everyday spaces. Students will use advanced learning technologies and hands-on collaboration to re-engineer mobility toys for disabled children in the context of this past meets present, cross-curricular in-depth study.

Byron Center Charter School

House Spirit Initiative: Igniting Engagement, Connection, and Participation

The House Spirit Initiative creates cross-grade “Houses” to foster student engagement, connection, and joy in learning (niche in the market). It addresses gaps in belonging and participation by uniting 6-12 students in academic, service, and spirit challenges. This innovative approach transforms school culture through fun, collaboration, and leadership, meeting key goals in our School Improvement Plan and promoting a stronger, more connected community and helping promote our 30 year celebration!

Covenant High School East

Peer Mediation Program

The Peer Mediation program is proven to equip students with the skills to resolve their own disputes and the opportunity to resolve conflict and learn strategies to handle similar problems in the future without adult intervention. Increases in peer mediation would reduce staff time spent on discipline and improve the overall school climate.

Detroit Merit Charter Academy

Career Shadow Event

During the career shadow event, fifty 8th graders will visit ARaymond, a designer engineer, and manufacturer of assembly systems. They will visit the engineering and sales offices to learn about the connection math and science have to careers within the automotive and engineering industries. Student liaisons and leaders will guide the experience and follow up project, where students will create a marketing brochure for a new product launch of their design, to simulate their concept to fruition.

Madison-Carver Academy

Reach 313: Building a Culture of Care and Connection

Madison Carver Academy partners with Reach 313 to build a stronger culture of care through small-group mentoring, conflict resolution, and behavior coaching. Led by former student Ronald Hopkins, the initiative addresses rising behavioral needs, supports social-emotional growth, improves student conduct, and boosts teacher morale—creating a safer, more connected, and supportive school community.