Learning Engineering Virtual Institute
Progress in education has largely been incremental. AI offers a tremendous opportunity to disrupt that approach. From personalized learning to better data on student progress, AI can drive breakthrough solutions.
But to deliver real impact, even the most promising AI interventions need the right technical expertise, targeted support, and investment focused squarely on student achievement and learning outcomes.
The Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI) offers a new approach to research and development. Through multi-year programs structured around moonshot goals, LEVI develops, scales, and implements AI-based tools designed to dramatically improve learning.
The LEVI Model
LEVI selects and supports multidisciplinary teams to achieve ambitious, measurable goals within a 5-year period. This work is grounded in a strong ethos of building, experimenting, and improving.
Ambitious goal anchored in research: LEVI sets the bar high for teams by creating a research-backed goal statement addressing the needs of students in classrooms across the U.S. and the globe. The pilot LEVI program focuses on doubling the rate of middle school math learning
Multi-year funding: LEVI grants significant sums over a 5-year period to allow teams to develop learning tools. Interventions range from an AI-powered chatbot that provides personalized math tutoring to generative video technology that digitally replicates the experience of having a personal tutoring session.
Collaborative community: The LEVI program knows that real change comes through a process of continuous improvement that includes deep collaborations across disciplines and institutions. LEVI recruits and invests in organizations that bring specialized knowledge, resources, and capacity to support teams in achieving measurable success. These organizations, or hubs, provide hands-on support—from building data pipelines and predictive models to preparing teams to run rigorous randomized controlled trials.
Impact Highlights
Our Programs
LEVI Math
Doubling the rate of middle school math progress for students from low-income backgrounds
In response to declining middle school math outcomes, LEVI Math launched in 2022 to dramatically improve student learning. LEVI Math supports 7 organizations in developing, scaling, and implementing AI-driven tools that boost student success.
LEVI Literacy
Reducing by half the number of struggling readers in the early grades (K-2)
Building on the success of LEVI Math, Renaissance will launch a second cohort in 2026 to increase literacy outcomes in early elementary grades. Recruitment is underway, and interested individuals can reach out for more information.
The Latest from LEVI
AI tutoring can safely and effectively support students: An exploratory RCT in UK classrooms
New AI tutoring tools show promise, but without thoughtful school integration, the students who need them most are still being left behind. Eedi, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, share their findings.
The “5% Problem”: Why Students Don’t Engage in
Tutoring Enough (and How to Fix It)
Despite the rise of AI-powered learning tools, data shows that only about 5% of students use them enough to see actual learning gains.
