reD co.Lab

We asked young people aged 15-22 about the learning that matters most to them. Over 1,300 responses poured in through IG. We think you’ll want to hear their voices.

reDesign’s co.Lab is a collaborative lab space for creating and testing future-of-learning designs and practices that expand access to deep and meaningful learning, and ensure all learners are future ready. In the co.Lab, we learn together and explore possibilities that lie at the intersection of youth voices, learning science research, and participatory action research.

co.Lab is a space where all of us can:

collaborate: Weaving together a vibrant, intergenerational community ready for bold change in education

co-create: Partnering with young people, communities, and institutions to create relevant and authentic learning experiences and opportunities

contribute: Sharing our expertise, stories, resources, and networks to help inspire transformation in the K-12 education system

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co.Lab Solidarity Partners

reDesign’s Solidarity Partners are organizational partners committed to K-12 transformation. They are working to ensure more equitable, meaningful learning experiences and environments for all young people.

This collective was first established in the summer of 2021, when they signed on to support the Reimagine the K-12 Content Map initiative, an ongoing effort to rethink academic standards and recast K-12 learning outcomes with a multicultural, antiracist perspective that is grounded in the learning sciences. We are grateful for their efforts, their commitment, and their voices at the roundtable. Meet the Collective.

The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) was formed by Native educators in 1969 to encourage a national discourse on Native education. Their guiding principles demonstrate a commitment to: centering young Native learners; sustaining and deepening their rich heritage; and provoking positive change for their young people.

The Liber Institute’s mission is to embolden and equip indigenous leaders and learners to transform schools and the communities they serve. Their work recognizes the strength of a community’s values, knowledge, and culture, and positions local educators, students, and families as the architects of transformation.

Grow Your World (GYW) is a youth-led community engagement and development program for elementary and middle schoolers. GYW believes that equity and access to resources create dynamics of mutual benefit for people, their communities, and the planet.

Building 21 is reimagining secondary schooling to meet the needs of all learners. Their work empowers networks of learners to connect with their passions and build agency to impact their world. 

Black Girls Brilliance (BGB) is a global middle school Black girls’ program currently operating in the United States and South Africa.  Through programs and partnerships BGB is activating a world where Black girls are provided the adequate support needed to flourish within their schools and communities, free from over-policing, sexual-violence and harassment, and systemic oppression.

Angels for Angels envisions a world where everyone is living a life they love, passionately in line with their life’s purpose, and is supported to make the difference they are out to make in the world. They support social entrepreneurs through fiscal sponsorship to change the world.

The History Co:Lab is a co:creation lab innovating how students learn history so that they can grow up empowered to take on the challenges of today and realize the opportunities of tomorrow.

iThrive Games Foundation uses games and game design to equip teens with the social and emotional skills they need to be healthy and resilient, the tools that support and protect their mental health and well-being, and the systems thinking they need in order to imagine and design a better world.

Initial co.Lab Offerings

The Learning Cycle Workshop

Learn how to plan units of study and design learning experiences that foster inquiry, nurture agency, and build competency.

Effective Mini-Lessons for Remote Learning

Learn how to plan and facilitate engaging and effective min-lessons that support skill and strategy development, collaboration, and high-order thinking.

Scaffolding Performance Tasks for Flex-paced Online Learning

Learn how to select and design quality performance tasks that are well-scaffolded and flexibly paced for remote learning.

SEL Connected

Explore strategies for using CASEL’s SEL Framework to help center social and emotional learning to make our classrooms more equitable within the content we teach. 

The 60/40 Rule

An accelerated deep dive into competency-based curriculum design. Build a competency-based project or unit through the course.

Competency Design 2.0

Competencies, skills, and continua for transparent, rigorous, equitable learning. Learn and apply reDesign’s methodology for second generation competency design.

Leaning into Love for Learner-Centered Communities

Practice leaning into love as a key component to designing and facilitating learner centered communities, tapping into the measuring love framework and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

Disrupt the Rubric

How well do our rubrics serve the purpose of equitable learning experiences for all? Let’s clarify the purpose of our rubrics and assessment tools, examine opportunities to shift power and practice a learner-centered, competency-based design approach to redesigning rubrics.

Ideas on what you’d like to see offered in the co.Lab? We’d love to hear from you.

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