Imagine a world where every child has access to high-quality, affordable education.
That's the vision of a group called Remake Learning, which this month hosted the firstForge Futures summit in Pittsburgh, where educators and innovators from around the world came together to plan for the future of education, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
"Given the powerful capacity of learning ecosystems to tackle so many of the challenges communities face today, we felt this was an important moment to gather a group of visionary thinkers and educators here in Pittsburgh," says Tyler Samstag, executive director of Remake Learning.
The summit's theme: "What can the world's most developed learning ecosystems share with those that are newer to this work?" Participants came from as far away as Catalonia, England, Peru, Colombia, and all across the US.
They spent a day touring public school classrooms, after-school learning hubs, a church filled with cultural treasures, cutting-edge research labs, and a broad range of other learning sites across the Pittsburgh region.
"We had regional tables," Samstag says, "intentionally diverse tables."
One group was exploring the inner workings ofMCG Youth, a community-based arts education and apprenticeship program active for more than half a century
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