Topic: Future of Learning

everyday disruptions and its definiton, along with the image from the forecast in support of it, depecting extreme weather and chaos in the background while a scared young black man looks off camera

Everyday Disruptions: Why Traditional School Reform Is Not Enough

As everyday disruptions intensify, KnowledgeWorks argues that education systems must transform by becoming more humane, flexible and community-centered, with deep, sustainable change grounded in shared vision, educator capacity and local…

Matt Williams
Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer

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Signals of Change: What Today’s Innovations Can Tell Us About Tomorrow’s Schools

Signals of change show how today’s innovations can help schools build future-ready learning environments. Get examples.

Katie King
Senior Director of Strategic Engagement

Imagining the Future of Education in Southwestern Pennsylvania

A 10-year forecast exploring possibilities for education across the Southwestern Pennsylvania region

Jason Swanson
Senior Director of Strategic Foresight

The prince from The Little Prince gazing at a starry sky from a mountain peak

Seeing with the Heart in the Age of AI

Approaching the Nevada Portrait of a Learner and the use of AI in education through the lens of The Little Prince

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

An AI-made image of a child standing before three future scenarios of three distinct urban landscapes - industrial, lush and dark

Centering Humanity in the Age of AI

Global leaders urge AI use in education that keeps humanity at the center.

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

KnowledgeWorks staff posing in front of the SXSW EDU 2025 sign

7 Ways Immersive Experiences Help Us Explore the Future

Learn seven ways immersive events can be a powerful tool for futures thinking.

Thought Leadership Horizons graphic showing three bell curves in a row, each overlapping with the one next to it and a line going through all of them. Horizon 1, in pink, represents personalized, competency-based learning insights and problems of practice. Horizon 2, in blue, represents emerging issues in education. Horizon 3, in green, represents future possibilities for education.

Lead Education Change and Action Across Time Horizons

Supporting leadership through near-, mid- and long-term change in education.

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

Charting a New Course for Education

KnowledgeWorks’ seventh anchor forecast on the future of learning explores possibilities for the future of K-12 education in the U.S.

Maria Crabtree
Director of Strategic Foresight Projects

Forecast 3.0: Recombinant Education: Regenerating the Learning Ecosystem previews five disruptions that will reshape learning over the next decade.

Learning Ecosystems

The future of education lies in stronger connections

educators gather in groups around tables in a classroom for planning

Aspiration Setting and Visioning: The What, When and Who’s Involved

The collective work to support lasting systems change involves challenging ourselves to imagine something new, together. But what’s involved?

The future has the potential to unfold in many ways and exploring those possibilities can be overwhelming; the cone of plausibility is one tool that can help guide those explorations.

A Tool for Exploring Plausible, Probable, Possible and Preferred Futures

Tools like the cone of plausibility help establish a vision for what we want for the future.

Jason Swanson
Senior Director of Strategic Foresight

Illustration of a group of kids around a hologram table.

Futures of Assessment

This forecast imagines possibilities in four futures that use asset-based formative assessment.

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