Innovation Spotlight: District 49 High School Redesign
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We’ve all had the experience of truly purposeful, authentic learning and know how valuable it is. Educators are taking the best of what we know about learning, student support, effective instruction, and interpersonal skill-building to completely reimagine schools so that students experience that kind of purposeful learning all day, every day.
LEAP Innovations led a High School Design Lab for District 49 in Peyton, Colorado. Small teams of teachers, students, and school leaders from Falcon High School and Patriot Applied Learning Campus participated in the series of design sprints guided by the LEAP Learning Framework and design thinking. This case study describes how the design lab supported educators and centered students, what the teams produced, and the impact it had. © 2026 LEAP Innovations.