Threshold Series

Mission Zero: Hunger

Imagine a future where everyone has access to plenty of healthy food.
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Why?

Children do not learn how to meet the future by being told about it.
They learn by engaging with it. 

Cards

Mission Zero is a gamified way for students to rehearse possible futures. 

Training

You have access to Mission training videos, slides and a series of "Coaching Clips" -- short videos for quick and easy tips on how-to implement Mission Zero.

Badges

Students can earn futurist badges throughout the Mission. Simply print template from Resources section.

Richard Tavener

How do you expect to prepare students to be ready for a future that is unknown?
Rehearse possible futures.
Mission Zero was created by Futurist Educator Richard Tavener to give students a way to rehearse possible futures. The essence of Mission Zero: Select a real-world challenge, use the Mission Zero methodology to create a possible future scenario; then students imagine, build and solve problems related to that future.

A few years ago, I started asking a simple question.
Not about curriculum.
Not about test scores.
About a moment.
There are moments in history when everything changes.
The printing press.
Industrialization.
The internet.
Now…another moment is here.
Not just a new technology—
but a shift in how humans create, think, and solve problems.
When everything changes, what it means to prepare students changes too.
And the question I’ve been sitting with is this:
What does it mean to guide a child…standing at this kind of moment?

Get Richard's book here. Threshold: For Parents Standing with their Children at the Doorway to the Future.