Beginning in the spring of 2016, the Carnegie Corporation of New York invited 2Revolutions, a national education design lab, and seven other organizations from around the country to find ways to make systems change within the education sector less piecemeal and fragmented. The group was called the Integration Design Consortium (IDC), and it challenged participants on whether real, sustainable, impactful change can happen if we only tackle parts of the system. Is there a way to innovate in a more integrative way?

Five of the eight organizations were ultimately funded by Carnegie to implement their ideas in partnership with one or more communities nationally. After a national application process and many visits and conversations with cities around the country, 2Revolutions chose Virginia Beach City Public Schools as the best community and partner for this work.

This website shares the story of their work together: beginning with why and how Virginia Beach was chosen, to the journey that began from there, and culminating with the bold, important solutions the community designed. Scroll down to learn more and use the navigation bar above to explore each part of the story.

How might we more effectively innovate a fragmented education system to better serve students and communities? This work, as part of the IDC, sought to solve that question.