Topic: Future of Learning

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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

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Futures of Assessment

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

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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.

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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

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Futures Thinking as a Path to Lasting Change

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

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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

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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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Drivers of Change Shaping Education and the Roles of Educators

Learn about four drivers affecting the future of educator roles.

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