Shared Foundation V: EXPLORE

Discover and innovate in a growth mindset developed through experience and reflection.

Illustration of a dark blue and yellow toy building block with four circular studs, symbolizing exploration and creativity.
Shared Foundation I: INQUIRE

Shared Foundations Infographics: Explore

Discover Explore, a Shared Foundation focused on innovation, discovery, and growth through learning. This infographic highlights learner competencies and provides ideas for encouraging curiosity, creativity, and intellectual risk-taking.

Student Voices on the Shared Foundations

In this video, learners reflect on what it means to explore in the school library, and what they do when their first try solving a problem doesn’t work.

Developing Future Explorers Activity Guide

Builds curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving through reflective activities, scenarios, and practical learning resources.

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Explore by Sarah Culp Searles

Encourages innovation, creativity, and intellectual risk-taking through authentic learning experiences and discovery.

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Cover art for "Guiding Youth From Eco-Anxiety to Empowerment" showing graphics of environmental elements, including the sun, clouds, ocean, trees, land and mountains.

Help young people turn questions into possibilities.

Discover practical ways to create space for young people to explore their concerns about the environment, build understanding, find hope, and imagine ways to make a difference.