About

The School Design Toolkit represents the journey and methods that Transcend facilitates with partners who are in the earliest stages of reimagining school.

Transcend is a national nonprofit dedicated to accelerating innovation in the core design of “school.”

We do that in three ways:

  1. We build and spread innovative models in partnership with visionary school communities (like yours!).

  1. We build and deploy a diverse force of R&D talent, called the Yellow Hats League, to develop, codify and spread these new learning models.

  2. We build and share actionable knowledge to inform the innovation process with evidence-based insights.

The Collaborative (2016-2018)

The National Collaborative was Transcend and NewSchools’ joint effort that launched this toolkit. It was a year-long cohort experience that supported school organizations from across the country in their journey to rethink their school models. Below you can find a set of artifacts from that original experience. Today, the Collaborative lives on in regional cohorts.