Acknowledgements

Co-Creating This Forecast

This forecast was co-created in partnership with thought partners and critical friends who shared their experiences, expertise and perspectives to help guide and shape the forecast.

The co-creators of this forecast are involved in education transformation in some capacity. They shared the beliefs that current education systems are oppressive and unjust, particularly for students of color and students from low-income families, and that we need new, intentionally anti-oppressive structures if we hope to change educational outcomes.

We believe that the contributions of every person who has touched this forecast should be recognized.

Authors

This forecast was created by Jason Swanson, Maria Romero, Katherine Prince and Katie King of KnowledgeWorks and by Andrea Saveri of Saveri Consulting.

Many thanks to Maria Romero and Rachel Wells for managing the project; to Mike Ball and Patty Casey for proofreading it; to Sanger & Eby and HyperX Marketing for translating our words and ideas into the design and webpages; to Todd Garvin for managing the design; and to Kate Westrich, Jillian Kuhlmann and Sean Andres for managing the production, communications and release.

Contributors

This forecast could not have been developed without the insights of the colleagues and education stakeholders. Much gratitude is due to these individuals for their time, thoughtfulness and courage in engaging with future possibilities for liberatory education.

KnowledgeWorks Advisors

Sean Andres
Manager, Marketing and Communications

Rolando Fernando
Director, Impact and Improvement

Lauren McCauley
Senior Director, Teaching and Learning

Anne Olson
Director, State Advocacy

Lisa Toms
Technical Services Engineer II

Eric Toshalis
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives

Matt Williams
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer

External Advisors

Leah Austin
President and CEO, National Black Child Development Institute

Temple Lovelace
Program Director, Assessment for Good, The Advanced Education Research and Development Fund

Shelley Zion
Professor, Urban Education and Critical Foundations, Rowan University
Director, Partnerships for Education, Equity and Research (PEER) lab
Language Literacy and Sociocultural Education Ph.D. Program Coordinator

Scenario Collaborators

Sarah Abdelaziz
Director, Activists in Residence Program, Abolitionist Teaching Network

Wendy Ake
Director, Just Public Finance, Othering and Belonging Institute

Leah Austin
President and CEO, National Black Child Development Institute

Caroline Blackwell
Vice President, Equity and Justice, National Association of Independent Schools

Lonny Brooks
Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay
Creative Director, AfroRithm Futures Group, co-designer of AfroRithms from the Future: a game to democratize anti-racist futures

Julianna Charles Brown
Director, Systems Transformation, KnowledgeWorks

Richard Gray Jr.
Deputy Executive Director, New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

Laila Ibrahim
Multimedia Afro-Arab Artist
High School Senior at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center

Madeleine Rogin
Kindergarten Lead Teacher, Prospect Sierra

Niah Shearer
Senior Managing Director, Organizational Learning, Teach for America

Mikala Streeter
Founding Principal and CEO, The LIFE School

Natalie J. Thoreson
inVision Consulting

Interviewees

Sarah Abdelaziz
Director, Activists in Residence Program, Abolitionist Teaching Network

Wendy Ake
Director, Just Public Finance, Othering and Belonging Institute

Leah Austin
President and CEO, National Black Child Development Institute

John Bailey
Founder, Vestigo Partners

Caroline Blackwell
Vice President, Equity and Justice, National Association of Independent Schools

Michy Brand
High School Senior, Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
Youth Programming Coordinator at Providence Student Union

Bryan Brayboy
Vice President of Social Advancement, Arizona State University

Lonny Brooks
Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay
Creative Director, AfroRithm Futures Group, co-designer of AfroRithms from the Future: a game to democratize anti-racist futures

Erin Browder
Senior Program Associate, WestEd

Julianna Charles Brown
Director, Systems Transformation, KnowledgeWorks

Bryan Caplan
Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Bre Donnelly
Founder and Executive Director, Joy as Resistance

Rolando Fernando
Director, Impact and Improvement, KnowledgeWorks

Adi Gamache
High School Student, Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center

Richard Gray Jr.
Deputy Executive Director, New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

Khalilah Harris
Vice President K-12 Education Policy, Center for American Progress

Caroline Hill
Founder, 228 Accelerator

Azella Humetewa
Head of Middle School, Native American Community Academy

Laila Ibrahim
Multimedia Afro Arab artist
High School Senior, Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center

William Jackson
Chief Dreamer, Village of Wisdom

Walter Lewis
President and CEO, Homewood Children’s Village

Temple Lovelace
Program Director, Assessment for Good, The Advanced Education Research and Development Fund

Muffy Mendoza
Executive Director, Brown Mamas, LLC

Katiusca Moreno
Senior Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund

Jose Munoz
Director, Coalition for Community Schools

Thomas Nikundiwe
Executive Director, Education for Liberation Network

Lizzete Gonzalez Reynolds
Board Chair, KnowledgeWorks
Vice President of Policy, Foundation for Excellence in Education

Madeleine Rogin
Kindergarten Lead Teacher, Prospect Sierra

Mikala Streeter
Founding Principal and CEO, The LIFE School

Albert Sykes
Executive Director, Institute for Democratic Education in America

Traci Tackett
Director of Digital Literacy, Bit Source

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