2020-2021
The third annual K-12 Purpose Summit was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic but successfully launched in January 2021 as a 2-month virtual journey that brought teams of educators from 25 schools and organizations. Our time zones stretched from China and Hawaii all the way to Holland! Over a dozen virtual sessions we explored purpose and used key tools like the World Leadership School Purpose Planner to design units and programs. We also met regularly via our small groups, called Huddles, in order to reflect and build community. At the end of the program, we celebrated the implementation of our “Easy Hack” and also shared our bigger “Moonshot” idea. As one participant reflected at the end of the program, “This has been a very inspiring experience for me. It has kept me going over the past few months.”
Here are some images from the final Pecha Kucha presentations we shared:
Here are some images from the final Pecha Kucha presentations we shared:
2019
The second annual K-12 Purpose Summit took place in October 2019 with educators from 35 schools and organizations around the United States, Australia and China. Participants learned from experts in the field including Daren Dickson (Valor Collegiate Academies in Nashville, Tennessee) and Dr. Aaron Griffen (DSST Public Schools in Denver, Colorado). Participants engaged with like-minded educators during the conference and designed both easy hacks and moonshots to bring back to their schools. The summit culminated with the educators presenting their ideas with a Pecha Kucha-style presentation and receiving feedback from a student panel as snow fell at the Colorado Chautauqua in Boulder, Colorado.
Below is a small showcase of the weekend and the work that happened at the 2019 K-12 Purpose Summit:
Below is a small showcase of the weekend and the work that happened at the 2019 K-12 Purpose Summit:
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2018
The first K-12 Purpose Summit took place in October 2018 with educators from 22 schools and organizations from around the United States. The conference in Boulder, Colorado, began with participants exploring and clarifying their own sense of purpose so they could coach students to do the same. Following the purpose clarification workshop, participants had the opportunity to take a deep dive into the main drivers of Purpose Learning, including student anxiety, brain science and Positive Psychology. Each educator, and group of educators, worked alongside peers to develop a program, class, and/or idea to take back to their schools. Below are a few of the big ideas developed at the 2018 K-12 Purpose Summit:
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