6: What do the "institutions" and structures that organize learning and learners look like?

75 high schools from 31 different school systems across Missouri and Kansas collaborated to develop the Real World Learning initiative. Funded by the Kauffman Foundation, high school students are able to accumulate "Market Value Asset" (MVA) experiences across the region.

WhatupHomee offers virtual homeschool meetups, book clubs, and other exclusive events so that Black homeschoolers have a safe space to find connection and support regardless of geographical location.

Co:Learn is an ed-tech company supporting home learning. The company offers a platform with planning tools, access to a variety of online curriculum, education coaching, and live clubs and enrichment. The company has also obtained charter authorization in AZ, which allows them to offer a tuition-free, public schooling option to support home-schoolers and learning pods.

Campus Without Walls (CWW) is an educational initiative supported by the Rennie Center in MA that is a statewide, cross-sector collaboration of schools, universities, employers, nonprofits and out-of-school-time providers. It recruits teachers who excel in their field, are committed to rigor and culturally responsive instruction and supports them teachers in adapting or creating exciting, credit-bearing units within their curricula that can be shared virtually. Teachers are matched to partnering classes in different schools, enabling two teachers to work together to facilitate a new learning experience for students.

Stepmojo curates high-quality, online synchronous courses and offers schools and districts a turnkey platform for helping students access them. By bringing together a variety of providers, the tool helps students access peers and instructors outside of their local learning institutions.

At KaiPod Learning Centers, 8-10 online learners or homeschoolers come together in-person to work on their self-selected coursework and collaborate with their peers — supported by a coach. Parents opt into different packages based on the number of days of support they want.

100 Roads is a "colearning movement" that's seeking to reinvent learning structures the way as coworking spaces have done for entrepreneurs and professionals to unleash new possibilities for families to learn, live, and work.