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Everything in ASCEND grows from one root. Before we explain it — try recognizing it.
The Hand of Learning
Each element of the Hand is something you already carry. Drag each one to where you recognize it.
¡Conoces la Mano!
When things get hard, your family and community need real help — not a program, not a system. A practice that grows with you.
Cuando las cosas se ponen difíciles, tu familia y comunidad necesitan ayuda de verdad — no un programa, no un sistema. Una práctica que crece contigo.
A navigation system for the whole person — built in New Mexico, rooted in community.
ASCEND is an independent nonprofit learning and workforce framework built in Northern New Mexico. It connects family life, career pathways, and K–12 education through one shared practice: Playing the Changes — the art of moving forward wisely through whatever life brings.
Every tool, every pathway, every assessment in ASCEND grows from the same root. The Hand. The Tree. The Four Rs. Community is the learning environment — not a backdrop for it. And at the center of everything is a single act: ReKnowing — the act of Renewing your Knowledge, returns to you what was always yours, at a higher turn of the spiral.
Documented skill evidence your students carry with them — from 6th grade to the workforce and beyond.
NextREADY GPS gives learners a portable, AI-supported record of what they know and can do — built on the same framework used in WIOA workforce programs. A student who completes this program arrives at community college or a workforce navigator already holding evidence. No starting over.
The system is bilingual, intergenerational, and community-witnessed. Elders approve. Grandmothers understand it. Funders can measure it.
Our learning has an expiry date — but it can and must be renewed. ReKnowing — the act of Renewing your Knowledge, returns to you what was always yours, at a higher turn of the spiral.
Playing the Changes →
Career navigation, workforce readiness, and documented evidence of what participants already know — connected to real employer pathways in New Mexico.
Workforce Navigator →
Learning by doing. Storytelling as witnessed assessment. A navigation system that supports learners in deciding how to reach where they're going.
NextREADY GPS →Everything here grows from the same root.
All are welcome · Both languages · Free to begin
Join Free →Where would you like to begin?
Playing the Changes
The full journey — the ii–V–I, the Three Refuges, the Woodshed, the Bandstand, the Blues, the community library, and From Never to Ever. Every concept, every connection.
Pick a 21st Century Learning skill, touch a finger on the Hand, and read your iCAN statement. 48 intersections. Your evidence, your story, your voice.
200 seats across all five NM STEM Hub regions. Fully funded through the McCune Foundation. All three levels. Your account, your library, your trajectory.
Go deeper when you're ready.
Two more short videos — each under 2.5 minutes — covering Durable Life Skills and CTE career pathways.
Part 2 · Durable Life Skills · Graduate Profile
Part 3 · CTE Career Pathways · My Next Move
From Never to Ever
"It is Now that transforms Never to Ever.
Savor and share its blessings."