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Apr 6, 2017

The Summer of Futures

To help teenagers think more effectively about the future when making decisions, Teach The Future has launched the Summer of Futures for...

Dec 8, 2016

Teaching the Future: Travis High School

What do you get when you combined the fashion industry, soldiers, and an aging population? A compelling future scenario, believe it or...

Oct 5, 2016

See Teach the Future in Action in New KnowledgeWorks Video

In May, I collaborated with KnowledgeWorks and Youth Leading Change to create a foresight workshop for high school students in Pittsburgh...

Aug 8, 2016

Teaching the Future: Emeryville

What is the future of digital privacy? What are the implications of space resource extraction? How might we deal with food waste...

Aug 8, 2016

Teaching the Future: Pittsburgh

JFK was assassinated. Beyonce is coming to Pittsburgh. Harriet Tubman will be on a 20 dollar bill. Past, present, future. These were just...

Jun 8, 2015

Falling Backwards: Reflections on a Fundraising Campaign

Teach the Future completed its first fundraising campaign in May. We raised about $15,000. But I was surprised to experience the oddest...

Jan 15, 2015

History teachers Teaching the Future. Of course!

David Staley, Teach the Future Board member from Ohio State, organized a session about teaching the future at the annual meeting of the...

Feb 19, 2014

And so it begins...

Until recently, I was director of the graduate program in Foresight at the University of Houston, a program I had been a part of for more...