Reimagine America’s Schools
Reimagine America’s Schools is a project of the National Design Alliance with funding from Siegel Family Endowment and catalyst funding from SCHMIDT FUTURES.
Over the next decade America may invest as much as $500 billion in building the nation’s public schools. It’s a historic investment that will impact our children for generations to come.
We simply have to get it right.
We can’t go back to the old ways of doing things. In fact, the Covid-19 pandemic challenges almost every aspect of how we think about education. We need to learn from this crisis and dramatically reimagine how we design our schools for the future.
That’s why we received catalyst funding from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Foundation — we are undertaking an urgent mission to reimagine what our schools can and should be. We will do this by gathering civic, technology, education, philanthropic and design leaders from across the nation to reimagine the institution we call school.
Our mission is to design schools for the 21st Century, so millions of children — and our communities — can reach their full potential.
This is a vital American endeavor. We invite you to take part.
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.
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.
Insights From Visionaries in Design, Technology & Education
Summary Reports + Videos of our Forums
Get Involved
Reimagine America’s Schools is creating a full-scale national movement of educators, parents, and students collaborating for change. With the help of experts from curriculum, design, and technology, together, we can create a dynamic and powerful force to advance new ways of thinking about where and how we learn. Won’t you join us?
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“Our work with Ron’s team dramatically furthered our spatial vision for the project. Not only will the instructional delivery change as a result of the School of One, but the concept of classroom and school will transform through design.”
Joel Rose, former Chief Executive for Human Capital, NYC Department of Education