three invitations

Are you called to the work of reinventing learning environments and systems?
Are you and your communities working now to build the path towards reinvention?
Are you eager to learn from and support others in this effort?
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If so, here are three ways to get involved ​that we hope you’ll consider:

fund


A fund providing grants to support promising, co-created ideas that both meet urgent needs and represent insights that can shape
​a new future for learning. 

stories


​We are partnering with organizations to curate, codify and share stories that can inspire communities working to reinvent learning

network


We are ​connecting people who are making radical leaps into the future of learning through the Reinvention Lab network. 
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learning we love.

In conversations with dozens of young people, educators, and community leaders, we are hear calls for radically different learning in the wake of the dual, interrelated illness of a global pandemic and systemic racism. 

So when it comes to young people’s learning, we get excited when...
  • Learning affirms identity. Learning must care about who a young person is and who they want to become. This means valuing and affirming Black, Brown and Indigenous lives. It means learners of all ages and identities can bring their whole selves to learning, free from oppressive forces like racism and classism.
  • Young people have power. Learning must be co-created with and honor the inherent leadership capacity of young people and communities. 
  • Purpose Precedes Protocol. Learning, and how learning is measured, should have a clear why.
  • Context and community count. Learning can happen whenever a young person is awake, no matter where they are
This is an evolving set of needs we are excited to strengthen through learning from the wisdom of this Enduring Ideas network. We are both expanded and limited by our perspectives, our personal and professional communities and networks, and our place in time and history.

Interested in exploring how others are defining the paradigm shifts required? Check out some of these articulations that are inspiring us: Education Reimagined’s vision, Deeper Learning Competencies, HQPBL, Big Picture Learning’s 10 distinguishers, HipHopEd, Remake Learning, Transcend’s 9 Great Leaps, the Christensen Institute, CZI’s Whole Child Framework 
"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." -Arundhati Roy, The Financial Times, April 3, 2020