Get reminded (and inspired!) by the big ideas that were developed at the summit by reading Futures to Forge, our report sharing preliminary findings from our working session on day 2.

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Summit Schedule

Students at California Area School District check on the bees they care for as part of their personalized learning curriculum
Students at California Area School District participate in personalized learning curriculum | Photo by Ben Filio

Spotlight on Participating Organizations

Leadership from the following organizations have registered:

AASA
Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA)
Afterschool Alliance
Agile Evolutionary Group
Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Aliança Educació 360
All4Ed: Future Ready Schools
Allegheny Valley School District (PA)
Allentown School District (PA)
ASU / Center for Whole-Child Education
ASU / Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Association of Science and Technology Centers
Aurora Institute
Avonworth School District (PA)
Baldwin-Whitehall School District (PA)
Battelle for Kids
Beaver Area School District (PA)
Benedum Foundation
Beyond100K
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
BloomBoard, Inc.
Brownsville Area School District (PA)
Butler Area School District (PA)
Cabarrus County Schools (NC)
Cajon Valley Union School District (CA)
California Area School District (PA)
Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
Carlynton School District (PA)
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie Mellon University
CASEL
Center for Innovation in Education
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
City of Doncaster Council
Clairton City School District (PA)
Clinton Foundation
College Community School District (IA)
Collegiate Edu-Nation
Community College of Beaver County
CommunityShare
Cook Center for Human Connection
Cornell School District (PA)
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Crawford Central School District (PA)
CSforALL
Deer Lakes School District (PA)
Deer Park Community City School District (OH)
Digital Promise
Duolingo
Duquesne City School District (PA)
Eastern York School DIstrict (PA)
Education for Sharing
Education Reimagined
Elizabeth Forward School District (PA)
Enseña Perú
Ephrata Area School District (PA)
Families and Work Institute
Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District (NY)
Federation of American Scientists
Five Town Community School District (ME)
Foundations for a Better Oregon
Fox Chapel Area School District (PA)
Franklin Regional School District (PA)
Fred Rogers Productions
Global Education Leaders Partnership (GELP)
Google
Grable Foundation
Grantmakers for Education
Great Schools Partnership
Greater Latrobe School District (PA)
Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA)
Hampton Township School District (PA)
Hanover Research
Hermiston School District (OR)
High Aims
Highlands School District (PA)
Highmark Health
Hillman Family Foundations
Holleran Impact Advisors
Hollidaysburg Area School District (PA)
Indian Hill Exempted Village School District (OH)
InnovateEDU
Inovation Unit
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
International Society for Technology in Education
Intermediate Unit 1
JASON Learning
Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Keystone Oaks School District (PA)
Knowledge to Power Catalysts
KnowledgeWorks
Lake Forest School Districts 67 & 115 (IL)
Learner-Centered Collaborative
LearnerStudio
Learning Creates Australia
Learning Forward
Learning Heroes
Lindsay Unified School District (CA)
Loudoun County Public Schools (VA)
Lytle Independent School District (TX)
Manchester Bidwell Corporation
Mansfield Independent School District (TX)
Mastery Transcript Consortium
McGraw Hill
MDRC
MENTOR
Mineola Union Free School District (NY)
Modern Teacher
Naperville Community Unit School District 203 (IL)
National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE)
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)
National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA)
National Summer Learning Association (NSLA)
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education (NOIIE)
New America
New Brighton Area School District (PA)
New Castle Area School District (PA)
Next Education Workforce
Next Generation Learning Challenges
Northgate School District (PA)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Oneida City School District (NY)
Partnership for the Future of Learning
PBS
PDK International and Educators Rising
Penn State University
PennGSE
Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators 
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Pittsburgh Public Schools (PA)
Purchase Line School District (PA)
Quakertown Community School District (PA)
Questar III BOCES (NY)
RAND Corporation
Reading Community City School District (OH)
Remake Learning
RESCHOOL
Richard King Mellon Foundation
Ridley School District (PA)
River Valley School District (PA)
Riverfront Associates, LLC
San Ramon Valley Unified School District (CA)
Scaling Student Success – CA
Schell Games
Science Leadership Academy
Scott Family Amazeum
Seneca Valley School District (PA)
Shaler Area School District (PA)
Siegel Family Endowment
Smithsonian
Socol Moran Partners
South Allegheny School District (PA)
South Fayette Township School District (PA)
Southern Regional Education Board
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Stanford d.school
Stuart Foundation
Success For Students, Inc.
Successful Practices Network
TAAP Foundation
Teach Plus
Temple University
The Buhl Foundation
The Forum for Western Pennsylvania School Superintendents
The Goldie Hawn Foundation | MindUP
The History Co:Lab
The Learner First
The Mentoring Partnership
The Patterson Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
TIES
Trying Together
University of Pennsylvania/ Catalyst @ Penn GSE
University of Pittsburgh
US Department of Education
Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
Washtenaw Intermediate School District (MI)
Waterford.org
West Allegheny School District (PA)
West Clermont School District (OH)
Western PA School for Blind Children
What School Could Be
Wonder Media
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
World Savvy
WPS Institute
WV Public Education Collaborative
YMCA of the USA

A group of teenagers laugh together as they sit on the floor surrounding a large sheet of paper they are writing on.
Teenagers participate in the World Affairs Council Youth Fellowship program | Photo by Ben Filio

Get Inspired

Programming for Forge Futures was heavily inspired by the following publications. Consider exploring for inspiration leading up to May’s Summit.

From AASA

From Remake Learning

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Pittsburgh-area students work with teaching artists at Assemble to explore topics they care about | Photo by Ben Filio

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