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We're hiring! This independent contractor position plays an essential role in keeping our signature festival, Remake Learning Days, flowing and glowing across the state of Pennsylvania. Please share with your networks, we'd love to find someone great to join the team. ??

In his guest appearance on the Remaking Tomorrow podcast from Remake Learning, Carnegie's Diego Arambula (VP, Educational Transformation) offers a thoughtful reflection on the origins of the Carnegie Foundation and the evolving landscape of education. He dives deep into the challenges presented by the Carnegie Unit and the potential of creating more adaptive, student-centered learning environments. Tune in to find out how we're helping to #RemakeLearning. https://hubs.li/Q02Z3T740

Meet our local 2024 Moonshot Grantees! This is our largest Moonshot Grant cohort ever, with 17 impressive projects building a bold future for learning, right here in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. Read more ?? https://lnkd.in/enm8Tdjr Congratulations to all the grantees: ?? Attack Theatre, Inc. ?? DePaul School for Hearing and Speech ?? Carlow University ?? Dragon's Den ?? Brentwood Borough School District ?? Seneca Valley School District ?? Fox Chapel Area School District ?? Butler Area School District ?? Grounded Strategies ?? Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy ?? Northgate School District ?? SLB Radio ?? Forum for Western Pennsylvania Superintendents ?? Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education ?? World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh ?? Homewood Children's Village

More playtesting photos for you! Two more inspiring projects supported by our Let's Play, PGH! program. Educators at MCG Youth are developing Clayground, a mobile clay studio, complete with pedal-powered clay wheel, that brings ceramics tools, materials, and techniques out into the community so anyone can try their hand at working with clay. And Northgate School District is partnering with Allegheny Health Network to develop a playful wayfinding system for visitors to AHN Suburban, a hospital-turned-community-hub. Visitors can now find their way around the facility by following color-coded iconography representing the building's tenants and collect 3D-printed charms for each icon along the way.

Student agency + teacher agency = a potent combination. Ann Chavez from Modern Teacher and LEAP Innovations joins us on this week's episode of the Remaking Tomorrow podcast, which just dropped. Listen wherever you pod, or here: https://bit.ly/4ehBVh6

The best part of having a play-related grant program is definitely the PLAYTESTING. These are some recent snaps of the playtesting process at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh for some brand new ideas for play from our incredible grantees the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University, Hatch Partners in Play, and Penn State New Kensington (The Pennsylvania State University). Hatch Partners in Play and The Center for Transformational Play developed an embodied claw machine experience to dispense play kits full of materials for unstructured play. The Center for Transformational Play is also partnering with Penn State New Kensington to reimagine a pinball machine as a physical and digital experience. It's ultimate destination is a vacant storefront in New Kensington, PA!

?? Since 2021, Remake Learning has awarded over $3.5 million to more than 50 projects through its Moonshot Grant program, and we’re not stopping there. Today we announced the recipients of our 2024/2025 National Moonshot Grants! These grantees first inspired us with their ideas at this year’s Forge Future Summit—our gathering of 200 of the world’s public school leaders, learning scientists, tech developers, community organizers, and policymakers—and are innovating ways to improve education systems and access to learning across the United States and internationally. “We couldn’t be more excited to announce our first ever national Moonshot Grants,” says Remake Learning Executive Director Tyler Samstag. “Each of these grants represents a bold idea whose time has come. Remake Learning is honored to catalyze the next evolution of learning in communities across the US– and across the pond!” Please join us in congratulating the new cohort of Moonshot grantees: ?? Afterschool Alliance ?? ASU Foundation for a New American University ??Doncaster Council ?? Education Reimagined ?? Ephrata Area School District ?? Mineola Unified School District ?? National Equity Project ?? National Summer Learning Association ?? Next Generation Learning Challenges ?? Scott Family Amazeum Be sure to follow all of the new grantees on their journeys to help students across the globe. Learn more about all 10 of these ambitious efforts to remake learning: https://lnkd.in/g8t2EKi9

Worth a watch! In May, we brought together more than 200 influential thinkers, school leaders, and education policymakers from around the globe. During the summit, we interviewed 15 participants to capture their perspectives about learning ecosystems, the future of education, the Pittsburgh region, and more. Check it out ??

"We wouldn’t wait until middle school to help a child learn to read or do simple addition and we cannot wait until there is an issue with bullying, intolerance, or insensitivity to help our children become kind, socially aware, and responsible citizens." A great read from Angela M. Evans, a K-3 music teacher at Shaler Area school district. This is how we #RemakeLearning!

From now through September, KP Catalysts - Knowledge to Power Catalysts will be hosting a webinar series focused on centering youth thriving. The series will highlight specific topics and themes central to ensuring thriving learning ecosystems, through the lens of connecting out-of-school and other learning opportunities. By networking the resources available to young people, we can take a collective step forward toward our vision of a transformed public education system. In the first webinar, “Learning Ecosystems: An Introduction with Examples,” Knowledge to Power Catalysts will be joined by Dr. Tom Akiva from the University of Pittsburgh and Tyler Samstag from Remake Learning as they explore core principles of learning ecosystems and what it takes to support them. Register here for the webinar on July 2 at 12pm ET. https://bit.ly/4cqMT3z