Year 1 Impact &
Funding Opportunity
Oakland, CA
501(c)(3) · EIN 33-4254595
Matiq Labs operates the Learning & Design Lab (LDL) a year-long, embedded professional development model rooted in Participatory Action Research. We don't train educators. We build their capacity to design their own solutions, inside the real conditions of their schools. Year 1 spanned six sites across two districts, was formally evaluated by Hanover Research on behalf of the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, and was embedded as a core component of Rialto USD's county-commissioned Healing Plan.
Rialto USD
Rialto USD
Rialto USD · Pilot Site
Rialto USD
Rialto USD
Bay Area Charter · Spring 2026
Matiq Labs facilitation team after a Rialto USD session
Most professional development doesn't stick because it doesn't belong to the people doing the work. The LDL is different: educators use a structured SEE/NAME/DESIGN/ACT arc to investigate their own practice, design interventions for their specific context, and build institutional capacity that stays after we leave. Year 1 proved the model works. Year 2 asks the harder question what does it take to be sustainable?
LPS Richmond is the anchor Year 2 partnership. Building on two Spring 2026 sessions (56 educators), Matiq Labs has proposed a full-year engagement focused on building the internal structures and routines that reduce dependency on outside facilitation. Funders investing in Year 2 are investing in a model explicitly designed to build school capacity, not create reliance.
- Bay Area / Oakland: LPS Richmond anchor partnership launching Fall 2026, with deep roots in one of the Bay Area's most economically and racially diverse communities
- Rural communities: Active development of a Rural Professional Learning Network, Rural/Urban Learning Exchange, and Pilot Teacher Residency with Cal Poly Humboldt
- Educator supports & practitioner-led design: Third-party validated, embedded model not a workshop, not a training
- Systems reform: Formally embedded in a county-commissioned Healing Plan; independently evaluated by Hanover Research
- Funders committed to expanding educator supports in Oakland, the Bay Area, and rural communities
- Multi-year partners interested in scaling a third-party validated model
- Individuals interested in joining our growing Board of Directors