Topic: Future of Learning

From Classroom to Career

One graduate reflects on the skills learned during her internship and outlined in district’s Portrait of a Graduate. Big takeaway? Learning is lifelong.

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

graphics that indicate future: smartphone, navigation signs, books, buildings, globe with clock on it in a hand, mechanical gears

Remaking Tomorrow: Learning in a Post-Pandemic Future

A forecast on a just, learner-centered future for education in the Greater Pittsburgh region

Jason Swanson
Senior Director of Strategic Foresight

blue and green circles connecting

Education Futures: Balancing the Familiar and the Unknown

Guidance for people and organizations considering investing in futures studies

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

Futures Thinking Now: Communicating the Future. Two-by-two scenario matrix depicting high duration and high spread in the upper right; low duration and high spread in the lower right; low duration and low spread in the lower left; and high duration, low spread in the upper left.

Tools for Communicating the Future

Creating scenarios presents a challenge to communicate what could happen, not just what you think is most likely to happen in the future.

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

Systems Thinking Now: Observing Interconnections: illustration depicting brown-skinned man with black hair in gray button-up shirt and blue ball cap looking at a bee buzzing around a sunflower cap with a mountainous background and a small diagram in the upper left depicting the sunflower and the bee in a circular motion, pointing to each other. Reads at the top: "Identifies the circular nature of complex cause and effect relationships."

A Simple Tool for Observing Interconnections

Systems thinking involves looking at an education system as if it were complex, cyclical and interconnected. We look at some tools for guidance.

Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy

Futures Triangle: A Tool for Examining Interactions of Drivers of Change

How can we apply futures thinking tools, such as the Futures Triangle, to help us look at possible futures in times of crises?

Maria Crabtree
Director of Strategic Foresight Projects

Audience-specific discussion guides will help you use Navigating the Future of Learning as a starting point for rich discussions and strategic planning and help initiate positive action and change.

Futures Wheel: A Tool for Examining Implications of Change

The steps to uncover unexamined changes from major shifts or disruptions using the Futures Wheel

Jason Swanson
Senior Director of Strategic Foresight

An Exercise for Examining Assumptions About the Future

Often we consider our assumptions to be fact. But do they have to be?

Katie King
Senior Director of Strategic Engagement

Thinking Ethically about the Use of Technology: How families and educators could think about children’s privacy in a technological age

Thinking Ethically About the Use of Technology

We look at how technology can create ethical problems and different moral frameworks.

The Future is Everybody’s Business

KnowledgeWorks explores how imagining future possibilities empowers educators and students to create the future they want.

Children engaged during story time at library

Reflections on the Importance of Libraries

Katie King reflects on the importance of libraries as social institutions using the Foundations for Flourishing Futures as a framework.

Katie King
Senior Director of Strategic Engagement

Foundations for Flourishing Futures will help leaders understand their own work in new ways and do their part to ensure that every child and family can flourish in the future.

Foundations for Flourishing Futures: A Look Ahead for Young Children and Families

A forecast to help leaders ensure that every child and family can flourish

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