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I'm your host, Elise Hugh.

It's probably safe to say most of us want our children to get a good education.

But what does a good education actually look like in a

rapidly changing world? Is the schooling my daughters get preparing them in the ways they need?

In today's talk, education innovator Alon Samoa takes us on a journey from Brooklyn to Washington,

D.C. to rural North Dakota, giving us a glimpse of a movement that's

rethinking every aspect of learning through community-based design, transforming classrooms into

places where all young people feel seen, engaged, and ready to build the world ahead.

You've never seen a school like this.

In the middle of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, surrounded by cranes, startups, design studios. Young people aren't just sitting in classrooms.

They're creating digital marketing campaigns for small businesses,

wiring real houses.

Down the hall, a student named Natalia is hacking websites,

safely, with the guidance of cybersecurity pros.

These students are part of the Brooklyn Steam Center, a public high school that looks and feels

more like an engineering studio than a traditional classroom.

They're earning college-ready diplomas and industry credentials.

They're building professional networks while discovering what they're good at in the real world.

And none of it happened by accident.

I lead a school design organization called Transcend.

And when we began working with the Brooklyn community, our first step wasn't to bring in a program.

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