FUTURE FOCUSED

From the beginning, Future Focused has been founded on local wisdom, voices, and experience to support schools in being more responsive to their local communities. We collaborate with New Mexico employers, nonprofit organizations, and community leaders to create a network of support, connections, and experiences that propel students to success while returning benefits to their local communities... We believe that seat time, reductive competencies, and test scores are inadequate, inequitable measures systems for the bigger change that is needed. That's why our work focuses on better connecting underserved and nontraditional students to college and careers. Our communities cannot withstand the squandering of our most precious assets signified by the growing number of disengaged young people with nothing to do and nowhere to go... Real and enduring equity will not happen until young people and the communities where they live are valued. We must change the notion that underserved..

Also known as: Future Focused Education