K-12 Purpose Summit is scheduled for November 11-14, 2020. Additional information will be added to this website in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Purpose is not optional in today’s fast-changing world for either students or teachers -- it is becoming a critical life skill. Purpose, as defined by researchers at Stanford University, is a stable intention that is both meaningful to self and beneficial to the world. In other words, purpose happens when we make a meaningful connection to someone or something that inspires us to take action. It’s about having dreams and goals and taking action towards achieving those dreams and goals.
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In WLS’ view, purpose is the driving force behind the revolution in learning happening in many K-12 schools today.
During World Leadership School’s second annual K-12 Purpose Summit, educators will explore the question: “How can K-12 schools help students explore, discover, and articulate a sense of purpose at an earlier age?” This intimate gathering will take place at the base of the Flatiron Mountains in Boulder, CO on October 9 - 12th. We will begin by exploring our own sense of purpose as individuals because, in the words of purpose expert Richard Leider, “you can’t give away what you don’t own.” We will experience a process for helping educators clarify purpose, which has been designed and tested in many schools by WLS. |
I feel so inspired to take this work back to my school and actually DO the work and not just think about doing it. I feel that I have personally gained so much insight from this summit and I know it will have an amazing impact on my students and school community.” |
We will dive deeply into the theory and science behind purpose learning and explore curriculum created by WLS and other organizations in the purpose learning space. These resources will provide tools and inspiration for our own implementation design.
Finally, we will work in design teams organized around different entry points of K-12 education. Our goal is that every participant will leave with a curricular unit, class, or program to implement back at their schools. Along the way we will form a community by working and thinking together, sharing our stories, being vulnerable and authentic, dreaming up new ideas, hiking in the Rocky Mountains, and enjoying good meals.
Finally, we will work in design teams organized around different entry points of K-12 education. Our goal is that every participant will leave with a curricular unit, class, or program to implement back at their schools. Along the way we will form a community by working and thinking together, sharing our stories, being vulnerable and authentic, dreaming up new ideas, hiking in the Rocky Mountains, and enjoying good meals.
K-12 Purpose Summit Learning Goals
Activate our individual and collective purpose;
Share WLS’s ongoing research around purpose learning and participants’ work done at leading purpose-driven schools;
Design units, classes, and programs to implement in our schools;
Commit to follow-up action and communication;
Activate our individual and collective purpose;
Share WLS’s ongoing research around purpose learning and participants’ work done at leading purpose-driven schools;
Design units, classes, and programs to implement in our schools;
Commit to follow-up action and communication;
These are thoughts that have been swirling around my head and I wasn't exactly sure how to communicate around these ideas and definitely didn't feel that I had the knowledge base to implement work around these ideas or champion the importance of purpose. The work from this summit will help me in my day to day execution of my job but also in the ways that I think about my career in a broad sense and the entire field of education.
-Attendee, 2018 K-12 Purpose Summit
