Learning designed for growth and flourishing.
New Learning Ventures is reimagining learning experiences so that every learner in Arizona can flourish. We believe this is possible when our children are properly equipped and afforded the freedom to engage in meaningful learning opportunities and real world experiences.
In our first few years, we’ve launched three ventures: Acton Academy Phoenix, Phoenix Modern Charter School, and the Arizona Children’s Business Fair.
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
Phoenix Modern is free, public school where children explore, create, and prepare for a world of possibility. It is a community of learners driven by an innate sense of wonder, where children experience joy and loving relationships, and the learning approach is designed to support a lifetime of growth.
Acton Academy Phoenix is a modern, learner-driven community where each young person begins a hero’s journey to find a calling that will change the world.
The Arizona Children’s Business Fair inspires children to discover their inner entrepreneur. The largest entrepreneurship event for kids in North America, this one-day market gives children the opportunity to showcase their very own businesses.
Listen to stories from our courageous learners.
What guides our work.
Reimagine Education
We must continue to challenge current models of education in an attempt to create the best learning approaches for a diverse population of children by incorporating the latest research and understanding for how children learn best and not settle on tradition alone.
Skill + Character
Children must be equipped with a broad range of skills and character needed to excel in a creative and constantly changing world. Our work focuses on developing a love of learning and growth of the whole person – mind, heart, body and soul – because anything less is a failure to our children.
Meaningful Journey
We believe education is best when it is personally meaningful with a focus on meeting individual needs and interests, while also emphasizing one’s purpose beyond self as part of a community.
Collaborative
A successful ecosystem of learning experiences is made up of collaborative ideas and strategies from both the private and public sectors, including parents, schools, businesses, and young learners themselves who each provide a valuable voice and role in supporting Arizona's future.
Our Focus
SCHOOLS
Promising school models and learning innovations that are more effectively educating both the skill and the character of the child.
PEOPLE
Developing and incentivizing talented, education leaders to further shape the learning of the next generation.
PARTNERSHIPS
Initiatives that support innovation within schools and beyond, helping to establish a broad ecosystem of learning opportunities.
“If we want to develop innovative thinkers, we must first let our educators innovate.”