Ecosystem Lab
Connecting Communities to Spark Transformative Learner-Centered Growth
Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab
What will it take to make learner-centered ecosystems a public education reality? Across the United States, Lab members are uncovering the insights, relationships, and conditions to make it possible.
The sites represent a range of contexts and starting points, including suburban districts, rural microschool networks, youth development organizations, and vibrant urban communities. They are all united by a shared learner-centered vision: that learning lives everywhere, thrives through relationships, and grows through meaningful experiences.
Through this work, the Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab is discovering what it takes to seed and grow ecosystems—building the human capital, infrastructure, and trust needed to transform public education to center each learner.
- Learning Community
- A national community where ecosystem builders come together to exchange insights, troubleshoot challenges, receive coaching support, and accelerate their shared vision for learner-centered transformation.
- Pilot Site Visits
- Hands-on visits that immerse Lab members in learner-centered ecosystems in action and surface practical, place-based strategies for ecosystem growth.
- Insights Sharing
- A steady stream of learnings, tools, and stories that illuminate what enables ecosystems to take root and guide others seeking to reimagine learning in their own communities
Resources
Our Next Chapter for the Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab
Twenty-two communities across the country are entering a new chapter of the Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab, advancing bold, place-rooted designs that expand where learning happens and what becomes possible for every young person.
The 74: How 12 Innovative Teams Make Learning Happen in Communities
From New York to North Carolina, members of our Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab are showing how learning comes alive when communities, organizations, and young people intentionally design it together.
Getting Smart: How Do You Build a Learner-Centered Ecosystem?
Bobbi Macdonald and Alin Bennett explore how communities across the country are redefining where, how, and with whom learning happens as they share ten emerging insights for building thriving learner-centered ecosystems.