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Reimagining America’s Schools for a Better Future

Building a Complete American Neighborhood

On February 17, 2022, RAS convened a digital forum focused how technology is connecting communities and schools in San Jose and Silicon Valley.

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What could schools look like if we designed them with 21st-century learning in mind?

Reimagine America’s Schools asks some of the nation’s top thinkers to collaborate on the answer.

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National Summit on School Design

With a goal in creating a forward-looking vision to build learning communities, the summit focused on designing schools for equity and inclusion, learning at the intersection of technology and design, and active learning as strategies for greater student achievement. The event lays out the transformative idea on the next generation of community schools – Community Schools 3.0.

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A Strategy to Integrate Four Drivers of Change

Over the past year, Reimagine America’s Schools has convened dozens of leaders in education, technology, design, and politics, as well as students, parents, social welfare professionals, architects, and non-profit and for-profit leaders, to help us imagine how the pandemic might or should change education. In this report, we present Community Schools 3.0, a strategy that integrates the four drivers of change into a comprehensive approach.

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Insights From Visionaries in Design , Technology & Education

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Gregg Behr is Reimagining America’s Schools and Remaking Learning

Gregg Behr, now in his 14th year as Executive Director of The Grable Foundation and recognized by President Obama as a Champion of Change in 2016.

It’s Time for True Equality in All Americas Schools

Community, connectivity and belonging: How Tony Smith perceives schools of the future.

America’s Need to Innovate and Champion Equality

Interview with former Clinton Secretary of Education Richard Riley.

Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Our Schools

From walls that can feel to floors that can hear, Ashley Arhart believes we’re closer to AI school design than we think.

A Conversation With Ashley Flores

Ashley Flores discusses schools as public institutions, and the opportunity to determine when, where and how learning takes place.

Strategies and Stories about Changing the Rules

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A State of Change: Massachusetts School Building Authority

Here we look at a case study of how the failure of the Massachusetts state school facility funding system in 2004 led to the creation of the unique, transformative, and highly successful Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA).

Oklahoma City: MAPS for KIDS

Here we look at a case study in transformation, an example of reform from outside the traditional strategies of school improvement. The building of a movement to change both the core pedagogy and institutional funding patterns to build new facilities on Oklahoma City.

Creating Space for Innovation

A conversation with Joel about his strategies for introducing non-traditional strategies in public schools and the challenges and opportunities connected with being an agent of change in American education.

Using his Bully Pulpit to Transform a City and its Schools

“Politics today and campaigns today have lost that sense of community and the streets. But when you're out talking to people you learn. And one of the things that I learned is that parents were very concerned about education.”

Summary Reports + Videos of our Forums

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Designing for Equity and Inclusion

Reimagine America’s Schools in association with the Siegel Family Endowment brought together a panel of designers, educators, and technologists on December 1 to explore the practical and tangible ways that the learning environment can be designed to create a more equitable and inclusive space for students, their families and their teachers.

Creating Places for Active Learning on a Budget

Reimagine America’s Schools partnered with Remake Learning and 16 organizations and agencies in western Pennsylvania in the design of a variety of learning environments that support 21st century learning strategies, including STEM, STEAM, Maker, and other active learning initiatives.