In this article, Jennifer Jones describes how at Pine Street School in New York City, they have dispensed with the traditional industrial model of schooling and are looking ahead to the future. The entire school was designed with optional learning environments. Jones describes innovative elements from varied seating (floor cushions, modular movable tables, high tables and stools, window nooks) in place of desks to a dynamic teacher-built menu of "interest options" driven by their passions in place of recess. All across the school culture, there is both an overt and a subtle theme of student agency, voice, and choice, which fuels the curriculum and day-to-day interactions among students and between students and teachers. Accompanying this powerful feeling of choice is an expectation for mutually respectful collaboration, encouraging all students from varied international backgrounds to learn to understand and value perspectives that are very different from their own.