Future of work and education

You can’t prepare for a job if you don’t know that job exists or you don’t have the requisite skills. We have spent the last seven years helping federal and nonprofit clients develop innovative approaches — including strategic design, pilots, technology prototyping, accelerators, incubators, and prize competitions — to expand access to education.

Our Work

Bridging gaps to ensure every student thrives

Announcing the Phase 2 winners of the Learning Landscapes Challenge.

Transforming education to drive climate solutions

An interview with Laura Schifter, Senior Fellow at This is Planet Ed.

Report from the field: EdTech Week 2024

Education leaders are exploring new tools and enduring questions.

Developing local education ecosystems to support national workforce priorities

How the Middle Grades CTE Accelerator empowered communities to deliver high-impact teacher professional development programs.

Announcing the Power Your Future Challenge

Empowering America’s future energy workforce.

Bringing new edtech solutions to adult learners

How the Future Finder Challenge reimagined career navigation and helped close a critical workforce-readiness gap.

40 proposals for the future of learning

Learning Landscapes Challenge announces Phase 1 winners.

Top takeaways from one of education’s biggest annual events

The Luminary Labs team’s insights from SXSW EDU 2024.

8 high schools that will change the way you think about space innovation

Your Place in Space Challenge announces winners.

Designing and building future-ready K-12 education environments

$2.2 million Learning Landscapes Challenge is accelerating infrastructure solutions to deliver and connect learning experiences across contexts.

High-impact solutions to an urgent adult education problem

U.S. Department of Education announces winners of the Future Finder Challenge.

Developing the space workforce

CTE Momentum and the Middle Grades CTE Accelerator help connect students with space careers.

Developing education ecosystems to help secure cyberspace

CTE CyberNet and the Middle Grades CTE Accelerator are part of America’s larger efforts to strengthen our cyber workforce.

Connecting high school students with space careers

U.S. Department of Education launches the Your Place in Space Challenge.

New edtech prototypes support career navigation for adult learners

U.S. Department of Education announces five finalists in the Future Finder Challenge.

Increasing access to CTE with a new annual challenge series

U.S. Department of Education launches CTE Momentum.

IES announces finalists in Learning Acceleration Challenges

Advancing interventions to improve math achievement.

Luminary Labs to design and produce Middle Grades CTE Accelerator

New program will build teacher capacity and expand effective education models.

People, places, and possibilities

Download our latest report on new value propositions for the future of work.

Luminary Labs awarded ED ARPA contract

Advancing innovation through the U.S. Department of Education’s new Experimental Design and Advanced Research Projects Accelerator.

Designing technical assistance that supports innovation and innovators

How the Rural Tech Project has created time and space for convening, collaboration, and connection.

Driving development of upskilling and reskilling initiatives

How the Rethink Adult Ed Challenge spurred new high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs — at scale.

Incubating a national cybersecurity teacher professional development initiative

How CTE CyberNet strengthened cybersecurity education in high schools.

Designing a national challenge to inspire transformational STEM learning experiences

How CTE Mission: CubeSat brought space missions to high schools.

Piloting novel approaches to skills-based distance learning

Rural Tech Project finalist teams are implementing and iterating new STEM education programs.

Transforming workforce training opportunities with pre-apprenticeships

The Rethink Adult Ed Challenge announced the grand-prize winner and four runners-up.

Students bring space missions to life with CTE Mission: CubeSat

Open innovation challenge puts career and technical education at the center of transformational learning experiences.

To build a strong cybersecurity workforce, start with educators

CTE CyberNet explored new ways to help teachers develop technical skills.

Building and scaling engagement with edtech for upskilling

Empowering educators to pilot and create open educational resources.

Incentivizing the game industry to solve for education

Balancing requirements and incentives to attract innovators.

Designing and launching the Illinois Digital Learning Lab

An educator-led piloting program.

3 organizations, 3 approaches to upskilling

A look back at three years of Power in Numbers research on adult education, edtech, upskilling, and the importance of math.

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