ONE STONE VENTURES IS driving learning innovations with educators across the globe.

One Stone’s Research and Design Hub, One Stone Ventures, shares education innovations across the world. Researched, designed, and tested at the One Stone lab school in Boise, Idaho, and with partner schools across the country, One Stone Ventures works with school leaders to customize our competency-based assessment tools and solutions. Empower students with the agency to live, learn, and solve problems with passion, purpose, and confidence. One Stone Ventures also offers professional development for partners and educators, including training, consulting, certifications, and courses.

Education Solutions, Programs, Certifications & Trainings

One Stone’s Growth Framework

Partner with One Stone Ventures to customize and bring our innovative learner profile and competency-based learning model to your school in order to measure powerful durable skills.

Passion and Purpose Program

Partner with us to use One Stone’s Living in Beta wayfinding and mentorship program to help students explore who they are, while pursuing passions and living with intention.

Certifications & Trainings

One Stone Ventures offers a suite of professional development courses, in-person workshops, and customized consulting services to help schools and organizations reimagine learning.

Wayfinding Mentorship Program For Educators

Grow in: student-driven learning; purpose-driven learning

Students are disengaged and not growing the skills they need to thrive in our rapidly changing world. One Stone’s innovative wayfinding program, Living in Beta, empowers students to explore their passions, drive their learning, and develop tools to live with purpose. Inspired by the term “beta testing,” used to describe the process of improving a product through continuous iteration, Living in Beta inspires students to embrace opportunities to test new ideas, learn from experience, and find ownership and meaning in their learning. As a cohort, we will engage in rich reflective discussions, learn by doing, and share stories of transformation as we embark on a journey to become inspirational guides in our students’ learning journey.

• The Level I and Level II Wayfinding Mentorship series prepares you as the educator to facilitate the Living in Beta program with students at your organization. 

• The program utilizes a blended approach, combining asynchronous, on-line learning with virtual meetings.

• Upon successful completion of each program, participants receive a certificate in wayfinding mentorship and a curriculum playbook for implementation of the corresponding Living in Beta student activities.

• The Living in Beta program was piloted with 200+ students across the U.S. in Spring 2021. See the pilot results here, published in Getting Smart.  

Join One Stone Ventures and the Growth Network

Schools and organizations across the globe are craving a better way to teach real-world learning while providing competency-based assessment. One Stone Ventures first developed and implemented the Growth Framework with high school students at One Stone’s lab school in Boise, Idaho. Today, thanks to the National Science Foundation and other partners and investors, One Stone’s growth-based learning tools and training are now accessible to partner schools and school districts across the country to assess and validate a wide-range of hard-to-measure durable skills.