The Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation is a STEM platform school established to serve students from 3rd through 12th grade. It is designed to provide its students with a standards-based, design-focused curriculum that is centered on solving real-world problems and tooling students with twenty-first century STEM skills. As a community focused school, the School of Innovation will create an open environment that invites partnerships from higher education, STEM business and industry and STEM non-profits all to support its mission and processes for learning. All School of Innovation students will graduate as life-long learners, intrinsically motivated to solve the most challenging problems facing the globe and committed to Willoughby-Eastlake and northeast Ohio.