Seeking Your Input on these 16 Points to Further Develop the Next Draft of Roadmap 2030 - share your thinking on any and all of them:

What is worth keeping and measuring from past practice?

How will adults will that students aren’t put in performative or unsafe positions. Some mentions of structures to make participation safe, authentic, and sustainable would strengthen this vision. 

Explain how feedback loops use metrics to cycle back into teaching practices. The roadmap outlines what good instruction is, but it stops short of addressing how teachers will know that learning is translating into student growth, equity, and belongingness. Teachers thrive on knowing their efforts matter. What does that feedback loop look like? 

More clearly connect each metric to its larger purpose, whether it’s about learning, belonging, or future readiness. That way, everyone sees the “Why”.

Share how educators track their own growth journeys with examples of portfolios, peer coaching cycles and rubrics that help teachers envision how to make their progress visible. 

Develop a more distributed leadership model that uses mentorships and PLCs to co-design curricula and guide policy conversations with formal leaders. See the Teacher powered school movement - https://www.teacherpowered.org/

Community engagement is described well for schools, but less as part of teacher professional learning. Embed learning opportunities with families, elders, and local organizations will strengthen cultural responsiveness. 

While equity is named, the practices lean more toward inclusion in spirit than in guardrails. Marginalized families, multilingual communities, and students without economic or digital access could still be sidelined. Share explicit strategies for representation, access supports, and anti-tokenism. 

Qualitative and street data are rightly elevated, but the framework stops short of addressing how these become measures of progress. Add how indicators and review cycles demonstrate real change beyond symbolism. 

Discuss strategies for navigating controversy, mediating conflict, and creating psychological safety when challenges arise. 

The focus on the local is an incredible strength. The roadmap slightly underplays how district, state, and federal policy constraints can shape and limit what communities can decide. Add how grassroots energy to systems-level levers translates to more durable change. 

Focus on systems transformation, both the scalability of innovation and the ecosystem of partnerships necessary to fully integrate and embody this kind of learning. Universities, employers, nonprofits, and governments from the local to the global can and must work together to seat the learner at center.  

This is a wonderful document. I would like to see it address scalability in relation to the following: 

• Funding models that support flexibility and innovation.
  Policy reforms for assessments, accreditation, and teacher licensure.

• Competency, micro-credentials, and AQ indexes (how do these interface with higher education admissions, workforce pipelines, and global comparability?)

• What structures ensure validity, reliability, and portability of new forms of credentials?

• How to prevent inequities in recognition (e.g., “badges” from elite schools valued more than others)?

Address the realities of teacher workloads. Teachers are described as “learning architects” and “mavericks,” but the roadmap underplays some considerations that could really bolster it if it were to meet them head-on:

• Practical workload: Managing AI tools, portfolios, co-created rubrics, and continuous pivots requires significant time.

• Wellbeing supports: Mental health, community care, and protections against burnout for educators themselves.

• Career pathways: How teachers’ evolving roles are recognized and rewarded over time.

Develop the path forward for teacher and leader capacity, specifically: 

• professional learning (how adults should be trained and supported to use new tools and pedagogy) and 

• leadership models (how principals, district A-teams, and policymakers can shift to empower, rather than block innovation efforts. 

What are the next steps for putting the roadmap into action.