The Learning to Flourish Network is the shared architecture that turns the field's fragmented efforts for the future of learning into systems change.
For decades we’ve built the pieces of the future of learning: new models, new measures, new policies. But the pieces don’t move the system unless they move together. The Learning to Flourish Network is the architecture that lets us move forward together.
Why Now
America Is at a Crossroads in Education
We hold the crown for AI creation, and we are still catching up on AI application in learning. Young people are leaving K-12 uninspired and underprepared for life, work, and democracy in the Age of AI, and the numbers have been telling us so for several years.
Largest on record
The gap between the lowest and highest performing students
NAEP, 2024
40%
Of students felt sad or hopeless enough to stop usual activities
CDC, 2023
1.2 million
Fewer public school students 2019 to 2023, chronic absenteeism at 37%
The 74, 2025
44%
Of workers’ core skills will be transformed in the next five years
World Economic Forum, 2025
Building What Comes Next
A Network of Networks for the Future of Learning
The field is full of organizations already building pieces of the future, and much of that work is splintered, under-resourced, and missing the shared infrastructure that would let it add up. The Learning to Flourish Network is the connective tissue. LearnerStudio convenes it, weaves it, and works alongside the field on the hardest questions, while the field itself builds the answers lever by lever.
Align the Field
Move splintered efforts into alignment so every H3 bound project compounds progress.
Accelerate the key levers
De-silo the critical levers where a networked approach produces clarity and scale.
Grow the Backbone
Build public awareness, policy infrastructure, and resourcing.
Ten Levers. One Direction.
Transforming public education requires progress across an interconnected set of challenges. LFN organizes that work across 10 Action Levers: building demand for a new system, expanding the supply of future-ready learning, and creating the conditions that allow those models to grow and endure.
The levers will not all move at the same pace. Each advances as the people, evidence, resources, and conditions needed to move the work forward come into place.
H3 DEMAND: Empowering learners and families
Narrative & Mobilization
Builds public understanding and demand so families and communities help shape a better learning ecosystem.
H3 SUPPLY: Creating H3 learning for young people
Models
Makes diverse, high-quality H3 learning experiences visible, buildable, and adoptable, from a single classroom to an entire district.
Modernizing the “What”
Defines a shared, evolving picture of the knowledge and capabilities young people need to flourish in the Age of AI.
Learning Workforce
Broadens and equips the people who help young people learn and flourish, including teachers, mentors, employers, and families.
H3 ENABLERS: Laying the tracks for accessible, high-quality H3
Measurement
Builds a modern, trustworthy measurement system, for learners, models, and the network, so the field can prove what’s working.
Public Policy & Systems Architecture
Builds the policy stack, playbooks, and champions that make flourishing-centered education the default, not the exception.
Research & Development
Rebuilds education’s R&D system so evidence from real learning environments reaches practice faster and keeps pace with change.
Digital Infrastructure
Architects open, public-purpose digital infrastructure, including identity, data, and credentials, so technology serves learners, not lock-in.
Pathways to Purpose
Helps young people navigate a fluid network of learning and life pathways toward mobility, agency, resilience, and purpose.
Systems Transformation
Builds the examples, on-ramps, and leadership capacity that help institutions evolve toward flourishing.
How the Work Happens
Each lever brings together the people and organizations best positioned to move the work.
Anchor Groups
Help guide each lever’s direction and maintain momentum.
Working Members
Actively contribute to specific priority areas and workstreams.
Lever Partners
Connect existing networks and efforts to the work — creating a two-way relationship in which LFN amplifies what is already happening and partners carry the work back into their own communities and networks.
Participation is open and dynamic, changing as the work evolves. Each lever advances through defined phases as its vision, leadership, evidence, participation, and infrastructure become strong enough to support the next stage.
The goal is not for LearnerStudio to permanently own the work. The goal is for the field to carry it forward.
What It Means to Join
What LFN Does for Your Work
Connection
LFN connects your work and mission to everyone else pushing in the same direction, so we can work better together and multiply our impact.
Shared Progress
Our members build the future together and carry shared ideas and progress back to their organizations for continued action.
Momentum
Together, we are moving future-ready learning from the edges to the mainstream.
When You Join, You Commit To
The Goal
Young people’s flourishing is the measure of success.
Working Toward Shared Solutions
You don’t need to arrive with the answer. You commit to finding solutions.
Bringing Your Perspective
You don’t check your views at the door. Your expertise, and your disagreements, make the work stronger.
Accelerating Together
We build on each other’s work instead of duplicating it, and we give credit where it’s due.
How We Treat Each Other
Our Community Commitments guide how we show up: candor with care, focus on the work, and shared stewardship of the network.
Find Your Place in the Network
There is a place in this work for anyone who wants public education to inspire and prepare young people to flourish.
How you participate can evolve as your interests, work, and capacity change.
Stay Informed
Follow the work and receive updates as levers launch and evolve.
Stay Connected
Connect an organization or network already working in this territory and create a two-way channel for learning, amplification, and collaboration.
Join the Work
Contribute directly to a lever’s workstreams and priority action areas.
Anchor the Work
Help guide a lever’s direction, steward its priorities, and build momentum around the work.
Who Is Already In
The network is convened by LearnerStudio and guided by an inaugural Advisory Council drawn from across the field.
Inaugural Advisory Council
- Al Motley, Techademics
- Amanda Fernandez, Latinos for Education
- Bethany Little, EducationCounsel
- Bibb Hubbard, Learning Heroes
- Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Erin Mote, InnovateEDU
- TeRay Esquibel, Purpose Commons
- Jeff Livingston, EdSolutions
- Michael Horn, Christensen Institute
- Merita Irby, Knowledge to Power Catalysts
- Jenn Charlot, RevX / Transcend
- Katie Martin, Learner-Centered Collaborative
- Kim Smith, LearnerStudio
- Macke Raymond, Hoover Institution
- Michelle Culver, The Rithm Project
- Pamay Bassey, formerly Kraft Heinz Co.
- Peggy Yin, Researcher
- Raquel Romano, AugmentED / AERDF
- Raymond Pierce, Southern Education Foundation
- Tyler Thigpen, The Forest School / Institute for Self-Directed Learning
- Virgel Hammonds, FullScale
- Vriti Saraf, Ed3
The Advisory Council works alongside a Steering Committee of nearly 50 leaders from organizations across the field, who help set the direction of each lever and anchor its work.
An Invitation to Build
The forces of AI disruption, public dissatisfaction, and the youth mental health crisis are converging, and that convergence carries both urgency and opportunity. American education is going to change. The question in front of us is whether we shape that change intentionally, toward human flourishing. Tell us where you want to build, and we will connect you to the lever where your work fits.
A member of the LearnerStudio team will follow up within two weeks with next steps.
Questions about the network? Reach out to Babak Mostaghimi at babak@thelearnerstudio.org or Stephanie DiStasio at stephanie@thelearnerstudio.org.