Innovation Lab - Louisville High School | All-Girls Catholic College Prep High School near Los Angeles, CA

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Innovation and Design Thinking

Encouraging Students to be visionary, to take chances, and persevere in the face of failure.

The Innovation Lab is a collaborative and cutting-edge workspace available to all teachers and students to advance and enrich student learning. Students from all grade levels engage in complex problem solving, critical thinking, risk-taking, and creative design. By using the Design Thinking process, students quickly become innovators, project managers, entrepreneurs and makers!

The lab includes liquid resin 3D printers, laser cutters, a vinyl cutter, sewing machines, large monitors with highly-efficient PC computers, a drop-down green screen, and more. Students use whiteboard tables, prototyping materials, 2D and 3D design software to bring their ideas to life. Often the present their designs in a “shark tank” setting at the end of each session.

Supporting Learning & Creativity with Technology

Louisville encourages students to apply technology creatively and in ways that suit them individually as problem-solvers and strong communicators. The Technology Program at Louisville builds a solid foundation for girls’ technology skills, organized access to schoolwork and resources, and creative/collaborative skills that develop critical thinking.

Every student receives a Lenovo Yoga laptop/tablet touchscreen device that is appropriate for the college prep, honors, and AP-level workload. They are durable, lightweight, and maintained in-house by Louisville. Touchscreens and stylus make textbooks, 3D design and academic apps easy and fun to use. Students use OneDrive for file storage. All laptops are Windows 10, and loaded with full-version, professional software: MS Office, Movie Maker, and Adobe Design Premium Suite (including PhotoShop). MS OneNote is the note-taking software of choice. There are interactive BenQ monitors and whiteboards in every classroom, and wireless access campus-wide.

Our students can do all their work on one device while learning important file management and collaborative skills. On campus, students can work on writing, mathematics, 3D design, research, and continue their work at home with the same computer. Louisville students have access to everything they need to be confident, creative, and successful with their schoolwork.

1:1 Access and More

The 1-to-1 Technology Program at Louisville addresses the ever-increasing demand for girls’ technology skills, organized access to schoolwork and resources, and creative/collaborative skills that develop critical thinking. Louisville students gain the benefits technology provides for girls as highlighted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA.

Our Lenovo Yoga student laptops give our students a versatile laptop/tablet touchscreen device appropriate for the college prep, honors, and AP-level workload. They are durable, lightweight, and maintained in-house by Louisville.

Since they are Windows 10, all laptops are loaded with full-version, professional software: MS Office, Movie Maker, and Adobe Design Premium Suite (including PhotoShop). MS OneNote is the note-taking software of choice. Touchscreen apps make textbooks and other academic apps easy and fun to use.

Our students can do all their work on one device while learning important file management and collaborative skills. On campus, students have access to a variety of platforms including macOS. Louisville students have access to everything they need to be confident, creative, and successful with their schoolwork.

Learning Management System

Louisville's students, parents, and teachers use the best learning management system available that is designed specifically for small, private schools - Blackbaud's Education Management System. This gives Louisville students a great organizational advantage over students at larger schools.

My Louisville, as we've named it, integrates lessons, assignments, grades, records, communication, and media in one place that is easy to use and compatible with everything from laptops to tablets to smartphones. Students use My Louisville to review lessons, participate in online discussions, upload assignments and connect to Google Apps for Education.

Teaching and Learning Support

Our Information Technology Director and Educational Technology Director work together to make sure all hardware, software, infrastructure, and services are up-to-date and being used to benefit student learning. Professional development for faculty is ongoing, and student training is fully integrated into lessons in all departments.

Students can seek academic technology support for troubleshooting or help with curriculum integration of technology. On-campus support is available before/after school and at breaks during the school day.

Electronic Textbook Options

Library Resources

The Louisville Library houses a vast collection of print and digital materials curated to support student learning. This includes access to a digital collection of research databases, designed to supplement the print texts available in the collection. Students can explore a suite of Gale databases, such as Gale in Context, Gale World History, Gale US History, and Opposing Viewpoints, as well as access materials on JSTOR, NewsBank, and more. Students can also engage with print and digital subscriptions to Catholic and secular news outlets, such as America Magazine, Angelus News, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Each Library resources has been chosen to best support the research and academic needs of all Louisville students. The extensive collection of both fiction and nonfiction titles will also provide new and exciting titles for any reader.

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