How exactly do we make the high schools of the future “agile, creative, and endlessly relevant?”
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Called XQ: the Super School Project and augmented by a team of high-profile educators, the campaign aims to reimagine high schools, soliciting new approaches to schedules, curricula, technology, and other factors affecting student outcomes.
“Steve Jobs” innovative spirit lives on through his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.
Winning teams will receive monetary support and work with expert mentors to turn their ideas into actual “Super Schools”.
Laurene Powell Jobs has pledged $50 million to help rethink America’s schools.
According to XQ, schools in the USA have largely remained unchanged over the past 100 years.
Ideas for XQ: The Super School Project will be accepted until November. 15.
“In the last hundred years, America has gone from a Model T to a Tesla and from a switchboard to a smartphone, but our public high schools have stayed frozen in time”, XQ said in a message on its homepage.
The XQ venture comes underneath the umbrella of the Emerson Collective, the group created by Powell-Jobs to manage her philanthropic efforts, of which that is by far probably the most formidable. This is a challenge, open to all, to build the Super Schools that will lead the way’.
Powell Jobs has funded education initiatives in the past, including College Track, a program to support low-income high school students applying to and entering college.
The philanthropist was widowed after former Apple CEO Jobs died aged 56 from pancreatic cancer in October 2011.
The ultimate goal, Powell Jobs of Palo Alto said in a statement, is to “foster students who are curious, engaged and creative – armed with the new literacies, knowledge and skills needed to thrive”.
Their son Reed was born six months later and in the years following, the couple also had two daughters – Erin and Eve.
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Whereas Powell Jobs will serve on the board of the XQ undertaking, operating the trouble day-to-day can be Russlynn Ali who comes from the U.S. Division of Schooling the place she labored as an assistant secretary of civil rights.
