"I left inspired, with my two colleagues, to research, design, build, and implement our Purpose Learning Capstone Course."

​- Peggy Proctor, Head of School, Echo Horizon School

In the future, we will remember 2020 as the year when every teacher was thrown off balance and all the cracks in school were blown open. But how will we experience the future of education?

As teachers, we can decide to live with purpose, hope, and a determination to make change. Join our annual K-12 Purpose Summit, a virtual journey  to explore the future of learning with a small group of diverse and committed educators. Throughout the summit, we will create community, explore our purpose, and design big, new ideas.

During the summit, each participant will:

1) Complete a program of living purposefully 
​​2) Implement two inspiring work products in school 
​3) Collaborate with educators from around the world

Our experience includes inspiring large group time, team huddles for reflection, and one-on-one sessions with a WLS coach. After kicking off with two virtual sessions, we will all come together in Boulder, Colorado to collaborate and learn together, in-person. Our experience will continue virtually, as we work asynchronously to dig deep, dream, and support each other between two final virtual sessions. ​Join a community of ​engaged, supportive educators from around the country committed to reimagining their classrooms and schools, renewing their work, and pushing the boundaries of learning.

Why Attend?

Design and implement bold learning ideas

Join a community of purposeful educators

Understand and
articulate your
​ purpose

Work with a ​partner to stay
​ on track

Explore purpose
​ learning around
​ the world

Receive 1-on-1 coaching and peer feedback

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The Process

Clarify our own purpose 
We begin by clarifying our own purpose as teachers and creating a “Purpose Map” to help us navigate work and life with intention. Before we can coach students to discover purpose, we have to do the hard work ourselves. 

Explore the science of purpose
We explore the theory and science of purpose, and understand why purpose helps both adults and students learn deeper, manage stress better, and feel more alive.

Learn from education changemakers
We engage with changemakers pushing the frontiers of purpose-driven learning. Learning in the past was about thinking. Learning of the future combines thinking, feeling, and doing, where students can explore their unique purpose. 

Design and implement your ideas
Working in teams, we create “easy hacks” and “moonshot” ideas. We convert these ideas into tangible work products through participant feedback, and one-on-one sessions with a WLS coach.

"A few words to describe my experience at the K-12 Purpose Summit: excited, overwhelmed, enthusiastic, rejuvenated, connected, enthralled, passionate."
​-Kristen Goggin, Math Department Chair, Cathedral School for Boys

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