This paper reflects on the author’s experience of an education foundation’s developing a robust and nationally recognized futures studies practice over a period of 14 years. In so doing, this paper aims to inform other futures studies practitioners about the kinds of considerations that can be encountered, and which must be managed, in starting, developing and maintaining a futures studies practice.,Organized around KnowledgeWorks’ triennial forecasts on the future of learning, the paper takes a narrative approach to describe the organization’s and the author’s future studies journeys, examining ways in which organizational learning and dynamics, as well as audience reception, affected the relative success of the study.,The paper begins by describing KnowledgeWorks’ excitement when publishing its first forecast on the future of education as a client of the institute for the future put KnowledgeWorks on the national map. It goes on to examine the organization’s capacity development in learning how to engage education audiences in exploring the future of learning, situating the study in the field of futures studies and developing internal capacity and thought leadership in the field. The paper concludes by reflecting on key aspects of KnowledgeWorks’ organizational learning; the organization’s leadership, moment and culture; and the author’s professional development journey.,The paper will help other future studies practitioners, along with organizations interested in considering investing in futures studies, anticipate considerations that could help them strengthen their practice or set up their organizational investment for success.

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教育的未来：平衡熟悉与未知

本文反映了作者在14年的时间里，在一个教育基金会发展稳健且获得国家认可的期货研究实践方面的经验。通过这样做，本文旨在向其他期货研究从业者介绍在开始，发展和维护期货研究实践时可能遇到的各种注意事项，并且必须加以管理。围绕KnowledgeWorks对未来的三年期预测进行组织在学习方面，本文采用叙事方法来描述组织和作者的未来研究历程，研究组织学习和动力以及听众的接受程度如何影响研究的相对成功。本文首先描述了KnowledgeWorks在发布其关于教育未来的第一个预测时的兴奋之情，这是该研究所的未来客户，使KnowledgeWorks跻身国家地图。它继续研究组织在学习中的能力发展，即如何使教育受众参与探索学习的未来，将研究置于未来研究领域，并发展该领域的内部能力和思想领导能力。本文最后总结了KnowledgeWorks组织学习的关键方面。组织的领导，时刻和文化；以及作者的职业发展历程。，本文将帮助其他未来研究从业者，以及有意考虑对未来研究进行投资的组织，