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Over a decade of inspiration, exploration and learning out loud.
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Getting Smart combines tailored advisory services with field-building advocacy. Serving as a central hub, we facilitate movement building, cross-organization collaboration, and community organizing. Our mission is to unite impact-oriented partners, fostering a collaborative ecosystem that accelerates innovation in teaching, leading, and learning. We bridge organizational gaps and leverage collective momentum to address both educational and societal challenges.
Every learner deserves an unlimited number of unbundled opportunities to explore, engage, and define experiences that advance their progress along a co-designed educational pathway. Each pathway provides equitable and personalized access to stacked learning experiences leading to post-secondary credentials and secure family-sustaining employment.
For many years (at least until 2020), we visited about 100 leading schools a year. It’s the most important form of professional learning we do for ourselves and for the educators that accompany us. It’s how we create and update a shared vision of powerful learning. Â
The Power of Place is a multi-year campaign that culminated in a book which offers a comprehensive and compelling case for making communities the locus of learning for students of all ages.
The Difference Making series focuses on how making a difference has a emerged as one of the most powerful learning experiences we’ve observed and how in this current moment it’s never been easier, or more important, to make a difference.
We have curated some of our many resources to support your grappling with some of the biggest questions in learning.