Reinventor
Collective

The Reinventor Collective is a group of young people transforming education.

WHY Reinventors

We, young people, have perspective and vision into education and the world as a whole that adults just cannot see. Period.






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WHAT IT IS:

Reinventor Collective is a community of youth who strive to amplify youth voice in education through Teach For America!

WHO IT'S FOR:

Youth. Learners. We are and work with, for, and because of young people.
We are not consultants.

WHAT WE DO:

We work alongside adults across Teach For America.
Not for, but with

Build Community 🤝

Amplify Youth Voices 📣

Lab
Projects ✅

We create space for all teammates to show up authentically.

We prioritize youth voice and decision making in educational spaces. Advocating and enacting change by, with, and for youth.

We work on projects in the Reinvention Lab and across Teach For America.

OUR JOURNEY:

Even in innovative learning spaces true co-creation is hard to achieve. It started with a group of young people in Denver, CO, called Future 10X. With the drastic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, young people advocated and the movement evolved into the Enduring Ideas Fellowship with the Reinvention Lab. Since then we have worked to establish the Reinventors.

Summer 2021

Oct 21 - Aug 22

Sept 2022 - Future

Enduring Ideas Cohort 3 with  12 young people and 5 adults participating in several projects nationally. all cohorts; future 10x

Reinventors began to meet and design the next best experience for young people in the TFA workplace.

We welcome new Reinventors! And lots of opportunities to come! 

Our Goal:

to create a space where youth feel seen, heard, and supported as they co-create with adults. Our youth perspective helps make decisions that better respond to the needs of young people in schools.

Questions? 

Contact us, the Reinventors! 

Reach Out

Co-Creation Resources

Learn more about co-creation through exploring these resources.

From Chronic Absenteeism to The New Absenteeism

Across the country, schools are struggling with rising chronic absenteeism. But what if the term itself obscures the experiences of today’s young people? Our latest findings introduce The New Absenteeism, a more nuanced way to understand and address youth engagement.

The Teacher's Guide to AI for Game-Based Learning

Use this guide to bring best practices from game-based learning and generative AI together in your classroom.

re: the zine Issue #1 "Research Is Hot"

re: the zine is a digital zine created by young people for young people.

See FutureShock in Action

In this 3 minute video, see what our 10-day interest-driven summer learning experience FutureShock is all about!

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.

Dreaming Into Learning Futures

What do trends in Power Flows, Markets and Jobs, Digital Decentralization, and Layers of Safety have to do with the future of learning?

Shifting Philanthropic Power: Enduring Ideas featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review

Learn more about the participatory decision-making process Enduring Ideas.

Rest as a Liberatory Practice

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.

Caitlin and Re/Scripted: Idea Hub Talk

When learning is reinvented, WHAT young people learn and HOW they learn it radically changes. Check out Caitlin's vision for the future of learning, and how's she executing it, in this series that features future-of-learning founders that were part of the inaugural GRAVITY accelerator cohort.

Austin and Rhymes with Reason: Idea Hub Talk

When learning is reinvented, WHAT young people learn and HOW they learn it radically changes. Check out Austin's vision for the future of learning, and how's he is executing it, in this series that features future-of-learning founders that were part of the inaugural GRAVITY accelerator cohort.

Julius and St. Louis Black Authors of Children's Literature: Idea Hub Talk

When learning is reinvented, WHAT is being learned and HOW it's learned radically changes. Check out Julius's vision for the future of learning, and how's he is executing it, in this series that features future-of-learning founders that were part of the inaugural GRAVITY accelerator cohort.

Tania and Convivir Colorado: Idea Hub Talk

When learning is reinvented, WHO is centered in learning design radically changes. Check out Tania's vision for the future of learning, and how's she executing it, in this series that features future-of-learning founders that were part of the inaugural GRAVITY accelerator cohort.

Co-Creation Framework

Youth-Adult Co-Creation is necessary for the future of education. This framework includes commitments and specific examples to help you co-create with intention.

Transcend’s Leaps for Equitable, 21st Century Learning:

A tool explaining key ways the student experience must change so that schools can prepare all young people to thrive in and transform the world.

Introducing the Final Four!

Reinvention Lab at Teach For America and Ninety Nine Product challenged educators to storytell through sneakers - and here are the mind blowing results!

Camelback Ventures News

Stay up to date on the news and resources available to underrepresented founders with our partners at Camelback Ventures.