Topic: Future of Learning

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?

a group of adults gather around a computer to look at info

Creating Shared Purpose and Understanding with Aspiration Setting and Visioning

Be bold. Be creative. Be different. Envision your learning community’s future and the ways to get there.

People gather around a wall of sitcky notes.

How Engaging with the Future Impacts Strategic Planning Today

Immersive futures experiences help participants explore possible futures of learning.

We have an opportunity to consider approaches to assessment to suit the education landscape and support individual learning and growth.

What might a minimal federal footprint mean for school quality systems?

Helping education constituents navigate today’s shifting landscape with resilience and success

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

KnowledgeWorks works alongside teachers, school district leaders and communities to provide competency-based education implementation support and to assist in the scaling of a personalized, competency-based learning system tailored to each learning community.

Using Future Studies to Prepare Students for Life After School

Many people, especially – and tragically – many of our young learners, also lack a vision of the future for themselves.

Jason Swanson
Senior Director of Strategic Foresight

among blurry forms of people leaning over a table of sticky notes, an arm clearly points out to one sticky note

Futures Thinking as a Path to Lasting Change

Futures thinking can help us reimagine how education can best serve future generations.

a adult woman and teen talk in a classroom with workbenches and tools

Designing Personalized and Purposeful Learning Experiences

Designing a high school experience that helps learners find their path forward

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

Image of two young people, looking in opposite directions

Looking at What’s Ahead for Education

Look ahead 10 years at possibilities for the future of learning.

Ink etched illustration depicting boulders falling down with reasons why teachers leave printed on them (disrespect, burnout, bad leadership, bureaucracy, lack of money, stress), juxtaposed with a brighter, more peaceful, sunny place with plants growing through a doorway with text over it, “Promise of a creative space to make a change.”

Thinking Beyond the Teacher Shortage

Clarifying what purpose(s) education systems seek to pursue can help establish shared goals, shifting mindsets and structures for educator supports.

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

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