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A Window for Re-Architecture

The Destination: A Future-Ready Learning Ecosystem

The Vision in Practice

What do young people say they need?
Shereen El Mallah

What do parents say they need?
Jenny Anderson

What makes a flourishing child?
Tyler Thigpen

What does it mean to shift our focus from “education” to “development” to “thriving”?
Karen Pittman

Modernize the “what”: Create a new K12 “Humanics” curriculum

Charles Fadel, Beth Anderson

What shape does numeracy take in the Age of AI?
Zarek Drozda

What are the uniquely human skills learners will need?
Alan Cheng

What are future workforce demands, and what do they mean for the most important skills to center in learning systems?
Tim Taylor

For what competencies must our new learning systems be designed?
Antonia Rudenstine

TeRay Esquibel, Fernande Raine

Reframe the “how,” “when,” and “where” of learning

What do we know about what activates deep learning, as we think about what learners need in the Age of AI?
Pamela Cantor

How might we redesign learning experiences to center the future-ready competencies young people need?
Andy Calkins

What do we mean by learner-centered?
Devin Vodicka & Katie Martin

Gregg Behr & Tyler Samstag, Demi Edwards

Why is it important that learners progress based on mastery? What does that make possible?
Chip Linehan

How does greater agency drive deeper engagement and learning?
Celeste Bolin

How might learning experiences be designed to cultivate the next generation of change makers?
Jenn Charlot, Saskia Op den Bosch, and Sarah Field

How can AI be used as a tool for learning, beyond more efficiency toward current outcomes?
Babak Mostaghimi

Rearchitect the “who” of learning and human development

What does it mean to be a “facilitator of learning”? How is an educator’s role shifting in the Age of AI?
Vriti Saraf

Who is an educator in the Age of AI? Who facilitates learning, and how might we recognize that larger community of educators?
Merita Irby

How do we need to reimagine the role of educators and leaders? What does a healthy talent pipeline for the future of learning look like?
Frances Messano & Pete Fishman

What might it mean to shift to a skills-first standards?
Kathleen Farley

What digital infrastructure will be needed to enable learners to own their learning?
Chris Purifoy

How do we need to shift program design and development for discoverability and crediting of learning?
Al Motley

Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Samantha Maskey, Temple Lovelace

How does transparency in AI infrastructure build trust and enable true personalization and agency?
Yusuf Ahmad & Betsy Corcoran

How is interoperability the essential infrastructure for human-centered, future-ready learning?
Erin Mote

Natasha Kamrani & Kathryn Sisa, Bibb Hubbard

How might we envision a process for community-engaged design and transformation toward future-ready learning?
Aylon Samouha

What has it taken at the school level, and then at the state level, to drive toward the future of learning?
Scott Bess

How can organizational leaders begin to take a “split-screen” strategy, investing in new approaches alongside their existing work?
Tequilla Brownie

What are some of the capacities that need to be built for schools and the people who are part of them to begin to move toward future-ready learning?
Chong Hao Fu