Formative Leadership Education Project
Formative Leadership Education Project
Project Summary
The Formative Leadership Education Project was recently awarded a grant from the Kern Family Foundation entitled “Expanding the Reach of Formative Leadership Education by Building Communities of Practice.” This funds the facilitation of the Kern Partners for Character and Educational Leadership (KPCEL) network. KPCEL is a nation-wide network of institutions in the process of implementing character education initiatives. As a starting point, the Lynch School will organize and host a Summer Institute in 2022 to bring these partners together into productive dialogue. Throughout 2022-2025, we will facilitate a series of working groups and professional learning communities across the network to support the work of our partners from inquiry to implementation.
Approach
Collaborative inquiry will be the basis for puzzling through the meanings and practices of formative and character education across K-12 and higher education contexts. We see working groups and professional learning communities as a means of supporting and generating the practical wisdom of leaders as they move their institutions towards holistic education. Our role will be to provide the stimulus for such inquiry in generative themes and dilemmas, by drawing on the expertise of scholars at the Lynch School and across the network.
Facts & Figures
30
KPCEL affiliated institutions
8
KPCEL working groups
25
Professional Learning Communities to be formed