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Education and the Economy: How Might Education Shape the Future of How We Live and Work
Understanding both the macro and micro layers of our economic system can benefit students on many levels.
How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
Working in systems change and driving innovation often creates skeptics. These skeptics are essential to include in your design process.
Designing at the Margins
At 4.0, designing at the margins means engaging founders in how identity intersects with equity and centering the unique needs of the community they wish to serve.
Purpose and Process to Ignite Intentional Conversations
Intentional relationships fuel intentional conversations - learn how to manifest them in your classroom.
Stop Playing: Your Campus Needs an Esports Program
Through gaming, students gain durable skills (as defined by America Succeeds) which are high demand skills that allow youth to demonstrate their knowledge and stretch their character.
AI in Conservation: How Would this Change Our Interactions with Wildlife?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide a sharper edge to the conservation data collection and analysis tool. Student Mary Margaret Perkins shares more about her recent experience to Kenya.
Innovative High School Schedules
Here are five sets of examples of innovative high school schedules that expand student opportunities while providing more collaborative time for teachers.
Addressing the Reluctancy to Transform Learning Environments
Learning Communities offer a more collaborative and holistically supportive environment for kids and adults alike. Nathan Strenge shares more in their latest post.
Using Schoolwide Design Sprints to Seed Student-Centered Culture
With a solid process and supportive staff, students can develop the confidence needed to take these skills to be critical thinkers and help solve real-world problems. Read more about how Macon Early College began using the design process as a way to plant the seeds for a more student-centered culture.
Big Push for Small Schools Grants
The A Big Push for Small Schools program plans to roll out up to 20 grants, to fast-track the influence and scalability of select microschool models across the entire K-12 spectrum. We’re looking for diverse national models that utilize various funding methods. Our selection priority is to support models that cater to historically under-served communities.