We define deeper learning as the higher-order thinking abilities, learning dispositions, and collaboration skills that students need to succeed in twenty-first century work and civic life.​

Teaching for deeper learning requires educators to build meaningful relationships, connect learning to what matters in the world, and engage young people in critical and challenging opportunities for thinking and doing. Deeper learning competencies promote the ability to transfer and apply learning to new and complex situations in an ever-changing global environment.

Deeper Learning

We define deeper learning as the higher-order thinking abilities, learning dispositions, and collaboration skills that students need to succeed in twenty-first century work and civic life.

Teaching for deeper learning requires educators to build meaningful relationships, connect learning to what matters in the world, and engage young people in critical and challenging opportunities for thinking and doing. Deeper learning competencies promote the ability to transfer and apply learning to new and complex situations in an ever-changing global environment.

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Deeper Learning Offerings

Learn to Teach and Lead for Deeper Learning

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Deeper Learning
Conference

Attend our annual gathering to become a leader of change, a disruptor of inequity, and an innovator of pedagogy.

Deeper Learning
Global

Connect with the global deeper learning community in your region of the world.

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Leading for Deeper
Learning

Learn effective leadership strategies to foster collaborative school culture and drive transformative change in your school or district.

Upcoming events

Mark your calendar for transformative events that elevate your practice.

Apr 2025

Deeper Learning 2025 is the global gathering of educators, leaders, and change-makers, working to create more student-centered schools.

Apr 2025

Deeper Learning 2025 is the global gathering of educators, leaders, and change-makers, working to create more student-centered schools.

Apr 2025

Empowering school leaders to scale deeper learning through systems change and a transformative adult learning culture.

Apr 2025

Empowering school leaders to scale deeper learning through systems change and a transformative adult learning culture.

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Dig into the Program Details

Read more about our application process, enrollment requirements, program costs, and curriculum.

Learn how to partner with the High Tech High GSE to host a regional deeper learning conference. Contact mjones@hthgse.edu for more information.

Tell us how attending a DL event has impacted your practice.

Become a part of the global movement to transform teaching and learning with these sponsorship opportunities.

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Center for Love & Justice

Partner with us to co-design schools that elevate youth voice and deeper learning!

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