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
Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab: Partnerships as Infrastructure
This brief examines partnership structures across communities engaged in ecosystem building by analyzing patterns of partnership diversity and depth, and how those patterns relate to the distribution of responsibility for learning across the community.
Learner-Centered Ecosystem Research Databook
Across communities, education and community leaders are working together in new ways to support young people’s learning across settings. This databook shares early findings on how learner-centered ecosystems are developing and operating in practice.
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.
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.