Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab
Building the Systems for Learner-Centered Education to Take Root
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
Where Learning Lives
Across the country, communities are organizing education as a living ecosystem—humane, place-based, and powered by relationships. Our new report shares what we’re learning from twelve such communities.
Known, Supported, Connected
This report explores what it means to be an educator in a learner-centered ecosystem and offers a fresh way to think about the roles and competencies that help these ecosystems thrive.
Seeds of Possibility: Connecting Policy to Practice Across Learning Ecosystems
This report showcases eight diverse learning ecosystem contexts and approaches, highlighting concrete examples that connect policy to practice.
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.
Ecosystems for the Future of Learning
This report offers a clear, hopeful look at how communities across the country are building learner-centered ecosystems and invites all of us to explore what this transformation could make possible for public education.
Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lexicon
This technical document is intended to help ecosystem builders, educators, and the larger field distinguish a learner-centered ecosystem, as well as the components embedded in it.