9: How do all community stakeholders- with complex assets, needs, histories, and ideologies- come together to rearchitect the 3rd horizon?

"We support educational innovation for equity. Many though not all of the entrepreneurs we support are developing personalized and whole-child approaches to reach the most marginalized learners." - Survey respondent

This is a cross-cutting question. Re-architecting together will require engaging those entities trusted by and closest to stakeholders. We'd note that how entities communicated goals and their priorities for change vary considerably.

How might we understand and honor different priorities and operating definitions?
How might we support communities in leveraging shared resources and knowledge while also being able to ground efforts in proximity to their communities and goals?

The entities below are some examples of organizations taking community-oriented approaches to innovation and change.

(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.)

Beloved Community

Beloved Community is an organization that helps regions build sustainable change through a collaborative journey for racial and economic equity that centers marginalized populations. Using a combination of consultancy, trainings, and tools, such as Beloved's Awa Equity Audit, the team helps organizations have tough conversations to evolve approaches.

LeanLab

LeanLab Education was founded to "usher in a new generation of transformational learning tools that are developed and evaluated by, for, and with the diverse set of educators and learners they seek to serve." The team works with schools, educators, and ed-tech developers to co-design, study, and scale new ed-tech tools and products.

EdRedesign Lab

TheEdRedesign Lab is an initiative out of Harvard that is exploring how a "Children’s Cabinet" (CC) model, which brings together key leaders and sectors that serve children and youth within a city can help bridging silos and driving collaborative action to prepares all children and young people to grow and thrive from birth to adulthood. The CC network is working with 35+ communities using this model for change.

NISN

The NACA Inspired Schools Network supports leaders in Indigenous communities to develop a network of schools providing rigorous academic curriculum aimed at college preparation while also promoting Indigenous culture, identity, and community investment. Working with Fellows, NISN helps Fellows plan and open these new learning communities.

RISE Colorado

The RISE Colorado team works to "educate, engage, and empower" low-income families of color to work as local change agents and reimagine their education system with community students and families as decision-makers in transformative and innovative ways.

Conversations With Kids

Transcend Education launched an initiative to help learning communities plan for reinvention in the wake of COVID19 by engaging and listening to learners.

Innovate Public Schools

Innovate Public Schools builds the capacity of parents and educators to innovate and act together to create world-class public schools through school creation and turnaround, training parents as organizers, and publishing research and quality data to help highlight problems and solutions.

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