NAF 2025 Conference
Amplify purpose through product and storytelling.
We envision a future where every learner can turn their curiosity and creativity into career confidence—through hands-on experience, industry insight, and meaningful collaboration.
Our Professional Development programs empower educators with curriculums, strategies and best practices for integrating footwear-related content into classroom instruction, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and applied learning opportunities. With immersive programs that blend business, creativity, and technology you can provide a platform for self-expression while bringing your students, school abd communities together through the power of design.
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#20Jobs
Did you know there are #20Jobs within the footwear industry spanning creative, technical, supply chain, commercial retail and more? With shifting economies and technologies, we are exploring how we can shape the evolving world of work.
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Curriculum
We've designed a structured, adaptable curriculum that allows educators to introduce their students to the various career pathways in the footwear industry with in depth explorations of essential skills related to design, production, marketing, branding, and entrepreneurship, preparing students with workforce skills & career options.
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In the Classroom
Completing our PD program not only equips you with new ways to engage and upskill your students but offers you full lesson plans, presentation materials, worksheets and additional exercises for our curriculum to come to life and have lasting impact.
“Education is not memorization. It is the activation of the imagination and a path towards liberation.”
— Dr. Chris Emdin, Author of “STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream: Reimagining the Culture of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”
“The best way to influence a youth's mind is by exposure and representation. Project based learning incorporates both of these into something tangible for students.”
— Vice Principal Vanessa Rucker, New York City Business of Sports School
“One of the questions that has just kind of stood the test of time and education is the question of ‘when will I ever use this?’ ”
— Mike Yates, Senior Designer at The Reinvention Lab
Future of Learning.
Since 2020, we’ve brought over 30 education-focused organizations together for a 4-week design and storytelling incubator. We taught students, educators and faculty from across the country to communicate their grand ideas and visions for the future of learning, all via a sneaker.
Thinking towards the future through innovative product design and branding workshops. Discussing everything from the inception of a concept to community marketing and sell through.
The Business of Sports
In 2025 students and teachers took on the challenge of designing, marketing and selling their projects, giving the entire school insight into the footwear industry in a way that was tangible.
