Interest Area
Learning
Our Thinking
We believe that multidimensional learning ecosystems that consider the whole learner, whole school, and whole community are a crucial path towards more equitable outcomes. Every factor in a learner’s education— from broadband access to safe and affordable housing to the development of social-emotional skills— can widen inequality and impact success. How might we shift systems in ways that drive equitable outcomes and create opportunities for learners and their communities?
Our Inquiry Areas
Our work supports and shapes programs and solutions that build lifelong learning opportunities and envision an education system that works for everyone, by addressing long standing social and economic inequities. We prioritize initiatives that pilot inventions and scale transformative interventions that incorporate flexibility and rigor, and enable all learners to thrive in a rapidly evolving society. This includes research, platforms, and programs that offer everyone the skills, tools, and opportunities they need to continue learning and adapting, and that are open, accessible, and innovative.
Inquiry Area
Learner-Centered Ecosystems
We champion learner-centered ecosystems that transcend traditional education models by creating holistic, future-ready learning environments that support students, educators, and communities through competency-based education, community-integrated learning, and technology-enhanced personalization. We focus on scaling transformative programs that build multidimensional infrastructure to drive equitable outcomes, enhance learner agency, and improve educator satisfaction while addressing systemic barriers that have historically constrained educational innovation.
Inquiry Area
Responsible EdTech
We support the development and deployment of responsible educational technology and AI tools that enhance instruction, student experience, and educator well-being through meaningful collaboration with educators, students, and communities. Through strategic investments in whole-system improvements and research-driven AI initiatives, we aim to create an EdTech ecosystem that prioritizes equity, ethical implementation, and evidence-based decision-making while mitigating the risks of hasty or unregulated adoption.
Inquiry Area
Advancing the Computer and Data Science Movements
We invest in expanding equitable access to high-quality computer science, data science, and computational thinking education through both integrated and standalone approaches, ensuring that all students are equipped to lead and shape a technology-driven future We support collaborative initiatives that bring together key stakeholders to create a cohesive vision for these essential skills while fostering innovative models that make computer and data science education a fundamental part of K-12 learning experiences.
Highlighted Grantees
Modern Classrooms Project
A Modern Classroom is one that is responsive to the needs and experiences of all students. This is not just a dream for educators – it’s a possibility with the Modern Classrooms Project. In a Modern Classroom, educators forego the traditional front-of-class lecture to provide shorter forms of direct instruction that students can access whenever and wherever they might be. In this way, educators duplicate themselves digitally, allowing them to more freely respond to the various needs in their classrooms.
Common Sense Media
Most technology wasn’t built with kids in mind. Common Sense is on a mission to change that. They believe in media that inspires and entertains families of all kinds, in technology that protects privacy and supports communities and in learning tools that prepare students and teachers for success in a connected world.
Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College works with K-12 educational systems to provide all students with deeper and personalized learning. They do so by: (1) building teams of educators with distributed expertise, (2) supporting systems in aligning educator knowledge and skills with school systems and structures to support the holistic development of all students in-line with insights from the science of learning and development and (3) empowering a diverse array of educators by developing better ways to enter the profession, specialize and advance.
Learning Insights
Q&A
A Surprising Obstacle to the Adoption of Innovative School Models
We sat down with Brent Maddin of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at ASU, and George Vinton and Kelly Anguiano…
Reflections
2025 Q1 Events Recap
We may be a small team, but our reach is mighty. Over the past quarter, we’ve traveled across the country…
News
Siegel Family Endowment Awards Over $16.3 Million to Strengthen Workforce Innovation, Infrastructure, and Philanthropy
Our latest grants reaffirm our commitment to building a more inclusive technological future by supporting comprehensive research, shaping human-centered policies,…