FutureForward: The 2024 Innovation Summit

Opening Keynote:
Purpose - The Personal Journey and the Professional Expedition

Ross Wehner, Founder, World Leadership School

In this interactive talk, we will explore the growing movement of Purpose Learning, which is the idea that learning has to be more than thinking. Purpose Learning integrates thinking with feeling and doing so that students have a greater chance of connecting to purpose both in themselves and what they are learning. We will dive into the theory and science of purpose as we explore a new generation of purpose-driven schools.

In our experience, every educator has a deep sense of purpose. But with the disruptions of the last few years, many teachers fell into “survival mode” and became disconnected from their original “why” for teaching. During our time together, we will explore the power of story as a window into seeing ourselves more clearly. “You can’t give away what you don’t own,” says purpose expert Richard Leider. In the same way, we believe educators have to work to see themselves clearly, before they can help students do the same.

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