Quest Labs · Educators Cohort · Fall 2026

Flip the
Script

A community of praxis for educators trying to fit hope and future transformation into systems built for the past.

20 Educators max
12 Weeks of practice
7 Futures literacies
Possible futures
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Fall 2026 Cohort
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The script we're all
still reading from

The world we're being asked to prepare students for keeps morphing faster than our nervous systems, and the systems built to support us, were ever designed to handle.

There IS something different. This is what we reach for.

The water we're swimming in

  • Volun-told to attend another training
  • Check the box, move on
  • One and done, see you next year
  • It's always been done like this
  • More to carry, less time to breathe

What we're reaching toward

  • You chose to be here
  • Praxis as the primary mode
  • A practice that deepens over time
  • Futures as something you build a relationship with
  • More capacity, more community, more possible

The story stays. The learning leaves.

"You are not broken. Neither is the system. It is working exactly as it was designed. You, however, are paying attention. That's why you're here."

Built from 545 contributions by 170 educators across two healing-centered gatherings. Debuted at the 2025 International Healing-Centered Education Conference.

The whole adult
ecosystem

Classroom teachers. Instructional coaches. Curriculum designers. Principals. Assistant principals. Department heads. District leads. Learning experience designers. If you touch the conditions in which young people learn, this room is for you.

Each cohort is capped at 20 to keep it real. Intimate. Honest. Diverse.

The Winded Visionary
You believe in futures thinking. You believe in your students. You're running on fumes from trying to do transformative work inside a system that wasn't built for it. This is a place to put down the performance and pick up a practice.
The Curious Skeptic
You've seen "transformative PD" before. Your caution is earned. Come see what happens when the room is actually built differently. If it doesn't land for you, your feedback is the gift.
The Already-Doing-It
You're already running futures-oriented practice in your classroom or school. You need community, language, and a place to go deeper. There are more of us than you think.
The Systems Thinker
Curriculum director. Instructional coach. School leader navigating more than anyone should have to right now. You sit at the intersection of what is and what could be. This practice is built for people who think in ecosystems.

What actually
happens

Flip the Script runs on a 12-week arc, adapted specifically for educators and educational leaders. Each session is a living laboratory. A place where the moment you are trying to meet becomes the curriculum. Capped at 20 people so the room stays real.

Go fast, go alone. Go further, go together. We're all in this together.

Five archetypes from the Black Menagerie serve as your navigational lens throughout. You'll meet them in the room. Meet the Black Menagerie →

Built on the ABCs for Futures Literacies framework that emerged from 545 contributions by 170 educators. Not a curriculum. A living methodology. Explore the foundations ↗

The norms that make the room possible

The story stays. The learning leaves.

What gets shared in the room is held in the room. What shifts in you travels with you everywhere.

Me-Search → We-Search → Re-Search

You are the first site of inquiry. Solo reflection before dyad exchange before collective sense-making. Every session, every time.

Play is rigorous

This is not a break from serious work. This is serious work in a different register. The experience is the gift. The play is the point.

We don't perpetuate legacies of labor here

You are not here to produce. You are not here to perform. You are here to practice. The pace is the practice.

Ready? Here are your
three doors.

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Dip a toe

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