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 […]
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 […]
The QUESTion Class’ Lasting Impact
Recently, alumni students of The Open Future Institute’s QUESTion Class and Mitchell Rabin, the founder, President, and CEO of A Better World Promotions and Media held an open roundtable discussion to discuss their experience in […]
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 […]
An Exciting Year Of Shared Learning
The 2019-2020 school year is upon us and with the new school year the Open Future Institute is welcoming new and exciting partnerships and opportunities! We are honored to now host the QUESTion Class in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
When Holland Travels to the Bronx to QUESTion Together.
On one of the last, chilly spring mornings in New York City, excited Dutch students waited, up and ready, to finally meet face-to-face with the Bronx native pen-pals they had been writing to. Every year, […]
An Exciting Civic Engagement Partnership.
A group of our QUESTion Ambassadors from 3 our of schools in the Bronx, have started a joint campaign with the District Office, as they realize their civic responsibility and agency in their communities. With […]
QUESTion Day Inspires All.
A few weeks ago, during a QUESTion Day assembly at one of our partner schools in the Bronx, a group of students stood on stage and spoke to an audience of 500 peers about their experience in […]
Reimagining Student Leadership in the Classroom
Students are leading the QUESTion Class! Over the course of this semester, more and more students are taking on greater responsibility in the classroom as teaching assistants. This role, however, is not new. During the […]
Open Future Institute Goes West to Partner with Alliance MIT
We have some big news: the Open Future Institute is expanding to California! In July we completed a very moving training with ten teachers from Alliance Marine – Innovation & Technology, a public charter school […]
QUESTion Class Alumni Engage Incoming Freshmen with the Hayden Summer Bridge Program
“Your team did a wonderful job of exposing our incoming freshmen to new ways of thinking about themselves, others and the world around them through the QUESTion workshops. We are excited to see how this […]
Student Ambassadors Bring the QUESTion Project to Amherst College
Passing along an early green of summer trees, we reviewed our presentation one last time. Amherst College had invited us to present the QUESTion Project to a group of alumni interested in the holistic, human […]