Better Future Conversations
Better Future Conversations
In collaboration with education stakeholders around the world, we are working to foster global learning about what it takes to transform classrooms and systems towards a new purpose for education.
Better Future Conversations brings together thought leaders from around the world whose experiences and perspectives can help catalyze and deepen our collective thinking about what it will take to reshape education systems so that all students are prepared to shape a better future for themselves and all of us.
Upcoming Conversations:
What Will It Take to Reshape Education So We Can Reshape the World?
Shaheen Mistri with Wendy Kopp
November 10, 2025 at 1PM UTC / 8AM ET
In this conversation, Shaheen Mistri, CEO and Founder of Teach For India, joins Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, to explore the question: What will it take to reshape education so we can reshape the world? Join us to learn what Shaheen has come to believe – through decades of educational activism, from founding the Akanksha Schools Network and Teach For India to building the Kids’ Education Revolution – about what it will take to transform a nation, and the world, through education.
Past Conversations:
AI and the Future of Education
Sal Khan with Wendy Kopp
September 18, 2025 at 4PM UTC
For the second episode of Better Future Conversations, Wendy Kopp (CEO & Co-founder, Teach For All) discusses with Sal Khan (Founder & CEO, Khan Academy) about the promiss and challenges of AI in education. Some of the key topics discussed include:
- How AI is transforming the role of teachers
- The skills young people will need to thrive in a complex future
- How we can reimagine education to cultivate agency, equity and leadership
- And more…
How to Build Leaders Who Do Hard Things
Fred Swaniker with Wendy Kopp
In this first conversation, Fred Swaniker, founder of African Leadership Academy, African Leadership University, and ALX, joined Wendy Kopp, Co-founder and CEO of Teach For All, to explore what it takes to prepare young people to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Topics they explored include:
- Why students should choose a mission, not a major
- How education systems can build agency and resilience
- Why doing hard things is not optional in a world of privilege and complexity
- What the 70-20-10 rule means for learning in the age of AI