Turning Learner-Centered Ecosystems into a Public Education Reality

Invention in Action

We ignite and fuel ground-level R&D efforts for a new, modern education system—one that honors the uniqueness of each child and diversity within each community, embraces connection, and leverages the beautiful reality that learning lives everywhere. Many local communities are poised for such invention, but can’t do it alone. We work with communities to align around a shared vision, mobilize the partners, marshal the resources, and identify the conditions to enable ecosystem development, with an eye toward equity, systemic adaptability, sustainability, and spread at a national level.

Learner-Centered Ecosystem Lab

We are catalyzing and supporting waves of learner-centered ecosystem pilots in communities across the country—a vital step toward the development of a new public education approach grounded in ecosystems.

Research

We are investigating and disseminating insights about ecosystem design, implementation, and impact to inform future ecosystem pilots and feed into a roadmap for their ability to equitably spread nationwide.

Policy and Conditions Work

We are identifying and amplifying the full spectrum of policies and conditions needed for the R&D of ecosystems and for their development, spread, and flourishing throughout the United States.

Fundraising

We invite funders to join in this mission to bring learner-centered ecosystems to life and invest in an affirming, proactive possibility for the future of public education, today. This financial support fuels not only our work but that of the field to design the systems, infrastructure, and ground-level initiatives to invent an equitable, modern public education system, rooted in learners and their communities.