The conversation around educational reform is not new, but why does progress to the system seem so fleeting? How do we begin to bring concrete and lasting change?

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Jessica Spencer-Keyse, Valentina Raman, and Zineb Mouhyi the co-founders of YouthxYouth. These three inspiring young women are leading a movement to radically reimagine the future of education to ignite a passion in young people to transform their education and revolutionize the status quo.

It’s time to revolutionize education and imagine a new student-driven future. These three are leading the charge! 

Listen in!

About YouthxYouth:  Jessica Spencer-Keyse, Valentina Raman, and Zineb Mouhyi are the co-founders of "Youth by Youth.” YxY is a movement to radically reimagine the future of education to ignite a passion in young people to transform their education and revolutionize the status quo. They are also collaborators at the Weaving Lab, a global organization with the mission of advancing the field of weaving—the practice of interconnecting ideas, people, projects, organizations, places, and ecologies to enhance system change.

To learn more about the YouthxYouth movement, follow them on Instagram or visit their website. 

Jump in the Conversation:

• [2:00] Jessica’s “why” of discerning what’s important in education
• [5:47] Valentina’s unique “bridge-building” upbringing
• [11:40] Zineb shaped by her Moroccan experience of colonized education
• [15:20] The magic of their meeting and power of “weaving”
• [26:20] The educational system--exploitive and reductive
• [32:32] The Imagination Age is here
• [35:20] Valentina’s Magic Wand: Thriving seen as every school's most essential mission
• [36:14] Zineb’s Magic Wand: Changing the goal of education to reaching our human potential with joy, discovery, and lifelong intergenerational co-learning
• [37:40] Jessica’s Magic Wand: Making learning a practice of liberation connecting back to selves, community, and nature
• [39:08] Maureen’s Take-Aways

Links and Resources:

 

• YouthxYouth Summit
• Jessica’s research report in Forbes: Every Child to Flourish
• Ashoka Changemakers
• Brookings global innovations spotters
• The Weaving Lab
• EdActive Summit
• Email Maureen
• Facebook: Follow Education Evolution
• Twitter: Follow Education Evolution
• LinkedIn: Follow Education Evolution
• Maureen’s book: Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids
• Micro-school feature on Good Morning America
• The Micro-School Coalition
• Facebook: The Micro-School Coalition
• LEADPrep