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The Open Future Institute Staff, pictured here before our QUESTion Project class at Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics in the Bronx, NY! Director, Program Growth and Development: Isobel King Student Coordinator: Josh Mesnik

Announcement: QUESTion Project Receives $1 Million from Fetzer Institute to Advance SEL Curriculum

The Open Future Institute (OFI) announces it has received $1 million from the Fetzer Institute to build out its QUESTion Project, an evidence-based social-emotional curriculum that empowers students to develop their own identity, strengthen their sense of agency, and build […]

By |2022-01-15T11:21:46-05:00May 10th, 2021|News|0 Comments

Why are we here? Getting to grips with the QUESTion Project

3rd Space, a media platform in Europe, interviews the co-founders of the QUESTion Project. 3rd Space was created in response to the many crises we face, to explore alternative perspectives from writers and visionaries of both western and non-western cultures, […]

By |2022-01-15T11:22:16-05:00January 22nd, 2021|News|0 Comments

Stanford University Researchers Begin QUESTion Class Impact Study

Open Future Institute is honored to announce that Dr. William Damon, Director of Stanford University Center on Adolescence, and Dr. Heather Malin, Director of Research, have begun to conduct a 16-month impact study of the QUESTion Class. The impact study […]

By |2022-01-15T11:23:22-05:00February 13th, 2020|News|0 Comments

Councilmember Vanessa L. Gibson visits The QUESTion Class at BCSM!

On Wednesday, April 16, 2019, The QUESTion Project at Bronx Center for Science and Math (BCSM) had the extreme honor of hosting Councilmember Vanessa Gibson of District 13th. The visit was marked by Councilmember Gibson’s interest in The QUESTion Project […]

By |2019-04-22T15:13:15-04:00April 22nd, 2019|News, QUESTion|0 Comments

Creating Outlets for Humanity: A Vision for Education – Part 2 .

Founder Gerard Senehi (center) with wife and co-founder, Francesca Rusciani (left) and intern and alumnus of the QUESTion Class Natalia Inoa (right) at a performance in New York City.

(To read part 1, click here) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/creating-outlets-for-huma_b_9228134.html

 

“I had a total breakthrough! […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:27-04:00September 14th, 2018|Blog|0 Comments

The QUESTion Project Welcomes Students – and Teachers – to their First Day of School

Open Future Institute wants to share how excited we are to get this new year underway. In fact, it may have seemed that QUESTion Class teachers and Open Future Institute co-facilitators were more eager than students to get up to […]

By |2019-02-28T11:20:12-05:00September 5th, 2018|News|0 Comments

QUESTion Project Expands to New School in Los Angeles.

The Question Project is back and making an even bigger presence in the Los Angeles area, expanding into the Alliance Bloomfield High School and training the new teachers coming into the Alliance Marine High School. And two more schools intend […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:27-04:00August 2nd, 2018|News|0 Comments

QUESTion Class Connects Students from Both Sides of the Country.

Two classrooms on two different oceans, sharing one computer screen. This semester, high school students taking the QUESTion Project in LA and NYC traded stories, asked big questions, and exchanged popular lingo from their cities in a real-time video gathering.

 
Students at […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:27-04:00July 19th, 2018|News|0 Comments