Project preferences for the next conversation
A summary of the project preference rankings submitted by both ChangeEd groups, highlighting the ideas that surfaced most strongly and inviting participants into the next stage of open collaborative discussion.
Overall reading of the results
The two groups point toward complementary priorities: future-ready human learning, educator agency, authentic AI pathways, student power, courageous leadership, and more meaningful assessment.
Group 1 favored future-readiness
The strongest signal was around rethinking curriculum, educator roles, and real-world AI pathways.
Group 2 favored agency and leadership
The strongest discussion signals focused on student power, courageous leadership, and escaping narrow assessment models.
A shared human-centered thread
Across both groups, the strongest ideas ask how education can become more humane, participatory, and transformative.
Top project directions
Based on 5 participant responses. One duplicate entry was handled by counting only the first occurrence and ignoring the repeated lower-ranked choice.
The Future Human Curriculum
A curriculum redesign project centered on the human capacities that become more essential in an AI-saturated world: judgment, creativity, ethical reasoning, emotional intelligence, collaboration, care, and meaning-making.
- Could produce a practical framework for schools.
- Strongest shared signal in Group 1.
- Placed in the top three by every respondent.
Educators as Evolutionary Agents
A professional learning and leadership project that positions educators not only as implementers of change, but as active agents in the evolution of learning, culture, and institutional purpose.
- Connects teacher identity with transformation.
- Could become a facilitation toolkit or cohort model.
- Complements the curriculum redesign theme.
Real-World AI Pathways
A project that connects students and schools with authentic AI use cases, emerging careers, community challenges, and project-based learning pathways grounded in real social and technological change.
- Strong first-choice support despite one omitted ranking.
- Practical bridge between school and the world beyond school.
- Included among the three discussion priorities because of its first-choice support.
| Rank | Project | Score | 1st-place votes | Top-3 votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Future Human Curriculum | 34 |
2 | 5 |
| 2 | Educators as Evolutionary Agents | 26 |
1 | 3 |
| 3 | Real-World AI Pathways | 25 |
2 | 2 |
| 4 | AI Without Cognitive Offloading | 25 |
0 | 2 |
| 5 | Education Without Borders | 19 |
0 | 1 |
| 6 | The 1% Better School | 18 |
0 | 2 |
| 7 | Student as Curriculum | 16 |
0 | 0 |
| 8 | Productive Screen Time & Human Wellbeing | 14 |
0 | 0 |
Top project directions
Based on 4 participant responses. All submitted rankings were complete and clean, with no duplicate project selections.
From Student Voice to Student Power
A project that moves beyond listening to students and toward shared agency, co-design, and meaningful student participation in learning, school culture, improvement processes, and decision-making.
- Strongest initial signal in Group 2.
- Strong potential for student-led prototypes.
- Connects voice, agency, governance, and belonging.
Courageous Leadership for Educational Transformation
A leadership project focused on the mindsets, practices, conversations, and decisions required to transform schools with courage, clarity, humility, and community trust.
- Received nearly the same level of support as the first-ranked idea.
- Broad top-three support across the group.
- Could become a leadership framework or workshop series.
The Assessment Trap
A project that challenges narrow assessment habits and explores more authentic ways to document learning, growth, competencies, contribution, creativity, and student development.
- Strong fit with transformation and student agency.
- Could generate tools, rubrics, and school case studies.
- Names a common obstacle to deeper learning reform.
| Rank | Project | Score | 1st-place votes | Top-3 votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Student Voice to Student Power | 26 |
2 | 3 |
| 2 | Courageous Leadership for Educational Transformation | 25 |
0 | 3 |
| 3 | The Assessment Trap | 23 |
0 | 2 |
| 4 | The Adolescent Engagement Lab | 18 |
1 | 1 |
| 5 | Learning Beyond the Classroom | 14 |
0 | 1 |
| 5 | The AI Mosaic | 14 |
0 | 1 |
| 7 | Collective Illusions in Education | 13 |
1 | 1 |
| 8 | Global Map of Living Alternatives | 11 |
0 | 0 |
Next Steps
The rankings are not final decisions. They are starting points for the next conversation. Groups will now meet to freely discuss ideas around its three highlighted projects, exploring what feels most meaningful, what might be combined, and what new possibilities emerge from the conversation. Together, these six project directions open a rich ChangeEd conversation around human-centered educational transformation.