Leading the conversation
Designing education for the future of learning
Featuring Carole Basile,
Dean of Mary Lou Fulton College
The future of education is changing faster than the systems designed to support it. We are standing at the precipice of profound transformations in the very grammar of schooling. Artificial intelligence is offering possibilities that were unimaginable even a decade ago, making thinking visible by revealing the micro‑patterns of reasoning, misconception, and engagement that shape learning moment by moment.
The science of learning and development continues to deepen our understanding of how identity, context, and relationships shape learning. Yet educator preparation remains anchored in legacy structures—credit hours, seat time, individual coursework, and episodic field experiences— leaving a widening gap between what learners need and how we prepare the professionals who serve them.
In this series of essays, we argue that educator preparation must be fundamentally redesigned for the futures ahead, not preserved to sustain inherited legacies. It must shift from schooling‑centered to learning‑centered, from individual to team‑based, from content delivery to design, from time to capability, and from equity as an aspirational value to equity as structural design. It must prepare educators not for the schools of the past, but for the learning ecosystems emerging around us.
We invite you to join us in this endeavor:
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