Future Focused Education

Future Focused Education continues to build on the infrastructure created in the prior year. The organization increased the scale of the paid internship program, providing in-person and virtual internships for young people living in communities across the state, with distinct hubs in albuquerque and santa fe (as a hub for northern new mexico). This is facilitated via partnerships with districts, schools, employers, and community-based organizations. The organization increased the scale of the annual statewide conference called eduprising and continues to partner with nm ped on an ongoing, assessment-focused professional development community of practice for educators across the state. Future Focused Education (ffe) has been an active collaborator with legislative, ped, and executive staff over the past four years and helped inform the innovation zone and graduation requirements legislation. Ffe is seen as knowledgeable and effective experts in both areas. The organization has a wide reach of influence through our "public will building" activities that include high functioning communications planning and implementation as well as a robust set of partners that meet monthly to help develop the policy making strategy of the organization. Future Focused Education has also provided contracted services that support schools in carrying out our mission of providing the best Education to students who need it the most.