Today, Siegel Family Endowment and the Walton Family Foundation launched the Learning Landscapes Challenge — a $2.2 million competition to design and build future-ready K-12 education environments. Phase 1 invites changemakers to propose infrastructure solutions that deliver and connect digital, in-school, and community-based learning experiences. Join us on this journey to advance equitable outcomes for K-12 students.
Build future-ready education environments
From teachers and community organizations to students and families, forward-thinking educational changemakers across the United States are experimenting with highly effective models of personalized and experiential learning. With the right structures and tools to expand their reach, these learning experiences can reduce achievement gaps and drive long-term success for even more students.
Increased federal investment in infrastructure has created a unique window of opportunity. But without cross-cutting approaches, community and educational infrastructure investments could miss the chance to address the root problems that affect learning access and quality. The Learning Landscapes Challenge is connecting these dots, incentivizing partnerships to integrate the physical, digital, and social infrastructure required to meet K-12 students’ learning needs now and in the future.
Access resources to develop and scale
The challenge will unfold across three phases designed to identify and support infrastructural concepts and entrants with the potential to achieve tangible, transformative impact — while laying the foundation to scale innovative learning beyond a single community. The challenge will incentivize partnerships to integrate the physical, digital, and social infrastructure required to meet K-12 students’ learning needs now and in the future. It will provide funding, cross-sector partnership opportunities, and tailored technical support to help changemakers develop and scale new infrastructure solutions.
Submit your concept by May 14
Do you have an idea that could transform K-12 learning? Come build with us. Register for the March 13 virtual information session and learn how you can enter the challenge.
In the meantime, entrants are encouraged to read more about the challenge and explore the curated resources. They can also review the evaluation criteria and view the submission form. Submissions are due by 7:59 p.m. ET on May 14.
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