After raising a $6.6M Series A, Wayfinder calls on education leaders to look beyond the crisis of the moment and not miss this opportunity for innovation at scale. As a first step, Wayfinder is establishing a new Senior Fellowship on COVID-19 and the Future of Education to support its growing…

By Matthew Winn For anyone who has ever worked in education, it is no secret that the days are often too short and the resources are often too limited to cover everything you want to cover. …

By Nausheen Tirmizi Have you ever felt completely left out? Fundamentally different from those around you? For my son with Autism, this was his reality for years. As he grew, I watched him contend with a desperate need for belonging. I asked myself how far we as a family would…

By Patrick Cook-Deegan This past November, the CDC published a study on youth visits to the emergency room during COVID-19. The findings weren’t good. Compared to 2019, the number of mental health–related visits for children aged 12–17 years in the US increased approximately 31%. While the full impact of COVID-19…

By: Patrick Cook-Deegan, CEO/Founder — Five years ago this week, Project Wayfinder launched its first prototype of our signature Purpose curriculum. Since our initial experimental lessons, we’ve come far. Our curricula have reached nearly 50,000 students in 35 countries and 30 states. In honor of our fifth anniversary, I’m excited to share our highlights, lowlights…

By Claudia Biçen, Wayfinder Head of Design — Many cognitive scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists argue that metaphor, the process of understanding one thing in terms of another, is central to human thought and communication. In fact, it is argued, metaphor is so deeply embedded in our language that most of the time we are not aware of it…

AUG 2020 | By Dr. Michael Gayles, Principal of IGNITE Middle School COVID has rocked our world. And despite the enormous challenge, my team at IGNITE Middle School (Dallas ISD) stepped up like rock stars to provide distance learning to finish out the 2019–2020 academic year last spring. Our students…

FALL 2019 |By Tom McManus, Head of Mission, Revolution School This article was first published in The Heads Letter by Independent Thinking. “If we know what the right thing to do is, why aren’t we doing it?” Three years ago, the Revolution School design team dug into imagining a new…

SEPT 2018 | By Hye Jung Kim, COO Education Incubator, HI This article originally appeared on The Natural Navigator “Time for our watch!” my watch captain shouts down the hatch to wake me up. It’s a little bit before 2am. Our 10pm-2am watch is up on deck, the rest of…