PurposeCon is the culmination of a two-year project! 21 Philadelphia students have designed interactive exhibits to share their purpose journeys with the city. REGISTER HERE.

A community of practice was created with teachers from seven Philadelphia public schools. Teachers were trained to facilitate a journey for students - a journey that helped high school students identify their purpose and participate in real-world learning experiences that helped them develop the skills necessary to realize that purpose in the world.

At PurposeCon students will share how they, with support and guidance from their teachers, connected with their purposes and used networks of their peers, teachers, parents community members, local businesses, and businesses in the region to create learning experiences that enhanced skills that align with that purpose.

Here's how you can support these future leaders.

• attend PurposeCon

• listen and ask questions about the students and their exhibits, and share your own

• consider mentoring, hiring, or connecting a student to someone in your network

Your involvement is crucial. Our students are counting on you to rally behind them and keep them encouraged in their pursuit of lives of meaning and purpose. PLC is excited to host this event that centers students. Light refreshments will be served.

This is the kind of work that can transform our city. They need your support. Join us.

Inspire sustainability & environmental stewardship

Connect young people to possibilities and real world learning

Develop a network between professionals and motivated young people

Who: Employers, training partners and institutional leaders who want to share their experiences and encourage students’ potential.

Contact: Edwin Yang 267-934-6042 eyang@uschool.org

What: Robotics demo, engineering showcase, learn about cte programs

Who: Meet staff, tours led by SLA students, mingle with alumni

For more info: 215-400-7270

Free food

Free giveaways

Come out and get

• Enrolled in El Centro

• Resources

• Community meals

• Free give-a-ways

Everything is FREE!

learn more HERE

The Philadelphia Learning Collaborative and Big Picture Philadelphia are jointly hosting a job fair to recruit teachers, exclusively for the 14 student-centered, deeper learning schools in PLC’s membership. Five of Philadelphia’s leading schools of education will also be at the fair sharing graduate studies opportunities for in-service teachers. HERE’s a link to flyer with more details. REGISTER HERE.

Click HERE for a map of where our members are located and HERE for a few recommendations and reminders for candidates.

Toxic Stress and Trauma’s Effect on Brain States and Behavior and strategies for managing it

Young people from Hopeworks will lead a discussion about brain structure, intergenerational and historic trauma, the evolutionary history of the brain and our stress response, and individuals’ responses to chronic and toxic stress

Join us, Register HERE!

APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 13, 2023

Announcing a best-in-class, PDE-approved, post-baccalaureate, principal preparation residency program that equips excellent, diverse teachers with the skills, knowledge, experience, and confidence to lead schools in Philadelphia successfully. 

Learning at the intersection of innovation and best practices, residents engage in intensive summer training and ongoing cohort study and site-based rotations to lead in their own school context.  Residents leverage Design Thinking and collaborate with their mentor principal, LIGHT leadership coach, and cohort to improve student achievement and engagement at their school. Upon successful completion of the two-year residency and the School Leadership Licensure Exam, residents earn their PA principal certification. 

Please see our LIGHT Leadership Residency Page at www.stringtheoryschools.org for more information and links to application materials

The national Progressive Education Network conference takes place in a different city every two years and is a diverse gathering of educators from around the country.

The PEN National Conference is best when we can be in person. With gratitude to our Seattle planning team, we look forward to seeing you all in the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 2022!

Click HERE for more information.

Do you want to tell authentic positive stories about educators in your school and how they persevered through times of challenge? Innovageous is offering a FREE online workshop for school leaders, talent managers, and communications professionals to promote empathetic interviews and intentional strategies to tell the stories of educators in your school!

Click HERE to RSVP today.

Innovageous will lead a 75-minute conversation about ways we can build Innovageous solutions to strengthen the educator pipeline, bolster retention, and ensure there are quality educators teaching every child. Click HERE to register.

Innovageous will lead a 75-minute conversation about ways we can build Innovageous solutions to strengthen the educator pipeline, bolster retention, and ensure there are quality educators teaching every child. Click HERE to register.

Innovageous will lead a 75-minute conversation about ways we can build Innovageous solutions to strengthen the educator pipeline, bolster retention, and ensure there are quality educators teaching every child. Click HERE to register.

Innovageous will lead a 75-minute conversation about ways we can build Innovageous solutions to strengthen the educator pipeline, bolster retention, and ensure there are quality educators teaching every child. Click HERE to register.

Hosted by String Theory Schools

Student Engaged Assessment: Building student agency and motivation through collaborative assessment of work by students and teachers.

Click HERE to register.

Hosted by String Theory Schools

Engage, Enhance, and Extend Learning through Technology: Transform the classroom experience using technology as a catalyst.

Click HERE to register.