Welcome to the Red House
Our work seeks to shape a new learning paradigm that expands high-impact practices at Georgetown University, confronts systemic injustice, improves wellbeing and healing, while controlling the rising costs of a transformative education.
We are
An educational R&D unit:
Engaging in values-driven design and testing of new models.
An academic 'edge' unit:
Managing a portfolio of experimental courses.
A funding unit:
Supporting transformation with campus partners through the Baker Trust for Transformative Learning.
Our Model for Innovation and Change
Over many years we have developed an approach to innovation in a traditional university that takes on three questions at the same time:
How do you make it possible for new ideas to emerge in a traditional university?
How do you develop and scale the best ideas?
How do you ensure that the best new ideas have transformational impact?
The Baker Trust for Transformative Learning
The Baker Trust for Transformative Learning makes strategic investments in innovation that advance the changing paradigm for learning. Investments target research, design, implementation, and scaling of new approaches to developing the skills, mindsets, and values necessary for graduates to take on the world’s greatest problems and shape a more just world.
The Baker Trust invests in a values-driven portfolio of prototypes and pilots, within and across the Schools, intended to catalyze innovation, cross-silo collaboration, and long-term structural change that advances an equitable and financially sustainable transformative education.
The Baker Trust sits under the Office of the Provost and is managed and supported through the Red House and the Designing the Future(s) of the University Initiative, which operate as an educational R&D unit for Georgetown.
Our Commitment to Racial Justice
There is no racial justice without equity in education. Without systemic innovation, it is impossible to transform educational systems to make equity possible. We commit to being more successful at modeling and enacting change – for our own staff, for our Georgetown community, and for our colleagues and collaborators across the educational landscape.
News & Events
CALL to Launch DC Semester Program
CALL to Launch DC Semester Program By Caleigh Keating, Senior Sports Editor Georgetown University’s Capitol Applied Learning Labs (CALL) will launch a new “D.C. Semester” program at the Capitol Campus in partnership with four different programs in the College of
Listening from the Heart
A new educational program promotes empathy through stories of shared humanity The Red House collaborated with The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) to integrate Listening from the Heart into university programs that
Red House Hosts Liberating the Classroom Book Talk
On Friday, January 24th, the Red House hosted Dr. Tessa Hicks Peterson to discuss her new book, Liberating the Classroom: Healing and Justice in Higher Education. Dr. Hicks Peterson was in conversation with Kendall Bryant, Research
