Dear Friends,
When Chalon and I launched The Flight School last year, we had a hunch that the rising generation was hungry for a new template for learning and leading.
Now, one year later, the magic is undeniable. ✨
Today, 100% of our founding Fellows report this experience has been transformative. (Shockingly, according to gallup, just 3% of college grads say the same.)
I often struggle to articulate the impact – it feels beyond words – but I'm guessing you'll know it when you see it.
Check out our video yearbook to hear directly from our Fellows.
In recent months, I've been heartened by how many of us are (gradually, gradually, suddenly!) having real conversations about the future of education. But I'm afraid we could hit the next 'target'— AI literacy, personalized learning, tech integration—while missing the actual point.
This moment isn't asking us to debate how we'll retrofit school around AI. It's offering us an opportunity to step back and ask: What makes us human?
The real challenge isn't learning to use the new tools—it's cultivating intuition in an age of deep fakes, compassion in an era of polarization, and courage to navigate a world that’s never changed this fast, but will never change this slowly again.
These aren't "soft” skills—they're regenerative skills. And they’re the qualities that make us gloriously, irreplaceably human.
This week, The New York Times published my letter asking the question we can no longer avoid: Will we train better robots or better humans?
The old era of education reform — incremental fixes and tinkering toward better test scores — is over.
The future of school will look nothing like school.
New models are proving what's possible—but we'll need an ecosystem of thousands more.
Scaling what works to the size of what's needed won't come from one approach or organization.
The future is birthed from our collective imagination.
What comes next is up to us.
Are you in?
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