Crossing The Canyon
Imagine the Transition From Youth to Adulthood as a canyon, with high school graduation on one side and life as a successful adult on the other. How do young people get across that canyon? This ethnographic report comes from voices from youth ages 15-24 and their adult supporters on the challenges beyond K-12. What do trends in Power Flows, Markets and Jobs, Digital Decentralization, and Layers of Safety have to do with the future of learning? TFA's CCV region utilized Reinvention Lab Design Coaching services to document their pilot project: The Reimagination Lab. Learn more about the participatory decision-making process Enduring Ideas. Our Reinvention Lab Team intentionally shut down for a two-week period of collective rest in September. The experience taught us about identity, place, and wholeness. We have pulled some of those learnings together into Rest as a Liberatory Practice. When learning is reinvented, WHAT young people learn and HOW they learn it radically changes. Check out
Crossing the Canyon Crossing The Canyon Ethnographic Findings About Life After High School This report has become a seminal guide at The Reinvention Lab, and to many in the wider education sector, continuing to shape how we think about the transition from high school to adulthood and what it would take to make that transition safer for more young people. In 2023, we started with over 50 conversations with young people and the adults who support them, and with increasing relevance, it offers a practical framework for thinking about what a more coordinated, more thoughtful transition from youth
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