Education Reimagined

Communications:raising the profile of learner-centered Education and spreading the commitment that it be available to every child, inclusive of race, background, or circumstance. Education Reimagined illuminated the vision of learner-centered Education to diverse audiences and spotlight the work already being done to bring this vision to life for children and communities across the country. In 2022, we:-launched and widely distributed a series of animated videos illuminating the vision of learner-centered ecosystems and what they would make possible for youth, families, and communities, reaching leaders from across the us and globe; -co-authored a report with the christensen institute on the impact of values networks on Education transformation;-co-authored a paper and the center for reinventing public Education (crpe) on the opportunities for learner-centered Education presented by statewide districts;-published over 100 stories and articles in our widely-read publications, voyager and in addition; and-hosted a series of well-received webinars featuring leaders in the learner-centered field.

Systems & practice advancement:enabling the learner-centered field to advance quality, document evidence of impact, and build the alternative infrastructure that would enable this approach to be sustained and equitably available to every child and family in the country. Education Reimagined partnered with leading learner-centered practitioners and experts to conduct immersive site visits, develop frameworks and tools. In 2022, we:-led an immersive site visit that gathered 18 learner-centered practitioners from 13 models to visit a learner-centered, community-embedded microschool in denver, co-embark education-and supported visitors to process what was seen, celebrate successes, and provide feedback to the model; -convened a working group of over 30 practitioners and experts to develop guiding principles and frameworks for alternative, learner-centered systems of accountability, assessment, governance, resource allocation, and human capital pipeline and development. The resulting guidebook is set to be released in 2023; and-partnered with a youth development program in newport and providence, ri-fabnewport-to host a series of community conversations to generate broader community buy-in to transform Education in their locality.

Communities:building and supporting a growing coalition of over 1,300 leaders and advocates committed to learner-centered transformation. Collectively, this coalition is growing the credibility of the learner-centered field, demonstrating the impact of learner-centered Education, and creating the air cover and enabling conditions for learner-centered models and ecosystems to thrive. It is diverse across sector, role, age, race, ideology, and geography. It includes practitioners from over 165 schools, districts, homeschooling coops, and after- and out-of-school programs across 38 states and 8 countries; youth leaders from 46 learner-centered environments across 25 states; and national and state leaders representing policy, business, unions, workforce development, higher Education, youth development, early childhood Education, technical assistance providers, and k-12 networks. In 2022, we:-hosted virtual trainings that equipped over 120 learner-centered practitioners, researchers, learners, and professional development leaders from across 70 organizations with a shared practitioner language, new insights into their practice, and renewed commitment to advancing their work;-convened 39 young leaders from 11 learner-centered environments across eight states to build their skillsets as advocates for Education transformation and embolden them with connections to others in this work; and-organized and launched a process to convene sector- and ideologically diverse leaders to make a public call for the policy and funding conditions for learner-centered ecosystem invention.