There is a growing consensus around the need to redesign schools from the standardized factory model we have inherited to one that can enable powerful learning and thriving for each and every student. Redesigning schools for deeper and more equitable learning requires systemic approaches that cultivate strong, supportive relationships and positive climate; enable rich, engaging, student-centered learning; implement meaningful family and community engagement; and maintain integrated student supports that enable health and well-being for the growing number of children who experience the effects of trauma, poverty, discrimination, and other adverse conditions. Such schools exist, but they are exceptions rather than the norm, and they contend with a policy environment that is not set up to enable or scale their work.

LPI’s Center for School and System Redesign supports research, practice initiatives, and policy strategies that can transform educational systems to respond to the needs of young people for an equitable and empowering education in our rapidly changing world. This work aims to enable practitioners, policymakers, families, and community organizations to understand and use the science on how young people grow and learn to develop schools and systems that facilitate meaningful learning in a caring community.