A learner-designed educational ecosystem and a transformative experience

Get ready to see education through a whole new lens. REP4 Midwest Learner Design Summit, Summer 2021/
Experience REP4 Live

Regional Summits, hosted annually by each of the REP4 founding higher education partners, bring together learners from local and regional high schools and youth-serving organizations to generate ideas that transform their lives, their communities, and education itself.

Learners build essential skills and take charge of their education while institutions encourage and assess ideas for educational change.

At Grand Valley, learner cohorts of rising 11th and 12th graders are identified by schools and organizations throughout the region who have joined as partners in co-creating the Midwest Learner Design Summit experience. 

The 2022 Summit journey will enable students to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their futures and take advantage of expanded college opportunities and benefits available to participants who successfully complete the program.

 

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Grand Valley Commitments
  • Build and steward a robust network of innovative high schools and community-based organizations as partners
     
  • Designate institutional experts and staff with dedicated time, commitment and passion for engaging the network and associated experiences 
     
  • Incubate worthy projects and share results across and beyond the REP4 national alliance to expand the impact of collective work
     
  • Provide philanthropy investment for the experience at zero cost to participants
     
  • Provide the benefits for participation outlined below, upon successful completion of the experience

     
Partner Commitments
  • Convene and sustain a cohort of 10-20 high school student participants annually
     
  • Recruit a cohort of rising 11th and 12th graders from diverse backgrounds, but with an overrepresentation of students from low-income households, first in their family to go to college, and other historically marginalized students
     
  • Identify a consistent Adult Lead from the partner organization to convene, register, guide/engage, and retain the student cohort and participate in Adult Lead orientation virtual training, held: July 18 and 19 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) 
     
  • Guide cohort through Learner Design Summit experience, including one in-person selection on July 21 in Allendale (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or July 23 in Detroit (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and virtual components held July 26-29 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m)
     
  • Participate in quarterly check-in meetings convened by GVSU
     
  • Agree to be available for the 2022 National Convening, as a synchronous, virtual REP4 event for all alliance partners, learner participants, and invited guests

 

High School Student Benefits
  • Admission application fee waiver and guaranteed admission upon successful completion of the experience

 

  • College course credit-awarding opportunities that count toward graduation: 2 credits for Midwest Learner Design Summit participation and/or 3 credits with Fall 2022 dual enrollment
     
  • $500 stipend
     
  • GV Pledge free tuition for participants with Family AGI and Assets of $50,000 or less, as reported on the FAFSA
     
  • T4 Scholarship competition for rising 12th graders who will be first generation college students
     
  • Learn and practice Design Thinking and gain entrepreneurial skills
     
  • Connect with peers, coaches, and professionals to support future and lifelong learning
     
  • Engage in student capacity building for college and career opportunities
Adult Lead Benefits
  • Admission application fee waiver and guaranteed admission upon successful completion of the experience
     
  • Professional development and personal network expansion
     
  • $1,000 stipend
     
  • Opportunity to convert experience to university coursework for credit; continuing education, graduate education, or State Continuing Education Clock Hours credit through the Michigan Department of Education

     

Pre-Summit

Adult Lead Orientation

July 18, 2022, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
July 19, 2022, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Virtual


 

Summit

Part 1

July 21, 2022, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
GVSU Allendale Campus

July 23, 2022, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
GVSU Detroit Center

Cohorts select one date/location above and attend together

Part 2

July 26-29, 2022, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m
Virtual

National Convening

September 22, 2022
Virtual – Learn More
School and classroom watch parties encouraged
 



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