8: How does public education leverage this disruptive moment to get to the 3rd horizon?

This is a cross-cutting question. One potential lens for analysis is to explore how different organizations are working specifically to tell stories and create pathways and networks to change. The entities below are examples of those working to paint new pictures, shift narratives, and build understanding of new approaches at this moment at many different levels of the sector.

(Note: these examples are illustrative and intended to reflect a diverse array of theories, approaches, and stakeholders, including less well-known or emerging initiatives. We also attempted to avoid duplication across categories.)

Roads to Reinvention

Transcend Education's Roads to Reinvention provokes communities to explore roads to reinvention, rather than just recovery. The initiative profiles stories of reinvention and offers tools for centering youth voices.

Microschooling Nevada

MicroschoolingNV is a resource site of Nevada for Action for School Options, which aims to educate stakeholders on different micro school options.

Oakland REACH

Oakland REACH is a parent-run, parent-led powerful force for radical change. Through a Family Advocacy Fellowship, an Outreach Team, School Enrollment Support team, and Virtual Family Hub, Oakland Reach is educating and empowering parents to demand high-quality schools for their children.

CompetencyWorks

CompetencyWorks is an initiative of the Aurora Institute providing information (stories, reports, guidance) to build understanding of competency-based ed as States move forward through recovery from COVID 19.

What Made The So Prepared

NGLC, in partnership with several other education organizations, launched a national initiative to explore the following question: What can we learn from public schools and districts whose learning models and cultures made them genuinely prepared for the challenges of COVID? The initiative captures stories from schools and offers tools for other communities.

Future of School

FoS is an intermediary organization that makes grants to students and teachers and documents and shares stories about emerging online, blended, and hybrid learning models.

Strategy Lab

TLA's Strategy Lab initiative builds upon the organization's Hop, Skip, Leapfrog project that captured school transformation opportunities as systems emerge from COVID 19. Working in cohorts oriented around specific challenges of equity, systems explore how to adopt innovations that foster equity and opportunity for students.

Powderhouse

Powderhouse is partnering with youth to create publications that offer new ideas for "School-as-it-could-be."

Learner-Centered Collaborative

The Learner-Centered Collaborative is a system redesign entity working to support states, districts, and schools using it's learner-centered framework to redesign around whole learner outcomes.

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