Blueprint

Designing Systems that Work

The NCEE Blueprint distills nearly four decades of research on the world’s top education systems. It provides insights into the key elements of successful systems, encouraging education leaders, policymakers, and communities to design future-ready education systems tailored to their unique needs.

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Blueprint

Designing Systems that Work

The NCEE Blueprint distills nearly four decades of research on the world’s top education systems. It provides insights into the key elements of successful systems, encouraging education leaders, policymakers, and communities to design future-ready education systems tailored to their unique needs.

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Consider the Blueprint a driver of dialogue and springboard to possibility as you think about the future of education in your community.

1. Prepare Young People for Long Life Learning

Prepare Young People for Long Life Learning

Emphasizes fostering excellence from early childhood to graduation, creating meaningful, accessible pathways to life after school aligned to the demands of an evolving economy, and ensuring opportunities for learning and reskilling across extended lifetimes.

2. Cultivating High-Capacity, Forward-Thinking Educators

Cultivating High-Capacity, Forward-Thinking Educators

Focuses on treating educators – teachers and leaders – as key knowledge professionals, with strong investment in their development including transforming educator competencies given emerging technologies, expanded student outcomes, and the need to rethink time, space and staffing.

3. Joining Forces to Ensure Learners Thrive

Joining Forces to Ensure Learners Thrive

Highlights bringing people and institutions together to support young people, blurring the lines between formal and informal schooling, and providing intentional support for developing fundamental skills and accelerated opportunities.

4. Thinking Differently About System Leadership

Thinking Differently About System Leadership

Points to the traditional fundamentals of leadership as the floor, no longer the ceiling, and highlights what is required of leaders given the pace of change in education and the economy.