We are living through one of the largest disruptions to our American education system in its modern history. For young learners, so many of the rituals of school have been upended. And yet, so much is the same. 
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‍What if we imagined a new school system? And what if we put that new vision for learning on a shoe? What if a sneaker could be a storytelling canvas to radically transform the future of learning? 
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‍The education system we have now, by and large, is an industrial education model, made for the 19th century, superimposed on the 21st. It needs a makeover. In partnership with Ninety Nine Products, an innovative sneaker design company focused on “doing good things for good people,” the Reinvention Lab created the Future of Learning Challenge to amplify the voices of people across the country who are acting their way into a radically different education system from the one we currently have. The winning design from the Future of Learning Challenge will mark a concentrated push to spread awareness of the possibilities when we reinvent ourselves to reinvent learning within a community.

‍Reinventing a sneaker to reinvent learning is one of many catalysts to conversations that can radically transform the future of learning.