About the course

Part spiritual and part practical, the goal of this short, low-stress program is to provide a process for formal reflection of lessons learned over the past school year with the intention of identifying one or two pandemic-adopted, high-impact practices that the teacher-participant would like to retain and refine for use in next year’s teaching. 

The formal portion of the program will consist of daily keynote Ignatian-style reflections followed by self-guided exercises, and opportunities to dialog with like-discipline teachers. By the end of the third day, teachers will have identified their practice of focus and prepared a simple plan for ensuring readiness come this fall. The keynotes will be both spiritual and practical in that they will incorporate a theme for reflection which will then be tied to the self-guided exercises. Once complete, the self-guided exercises will serve as the teachers’ planning document. 

Every few weeks throughout the remainder of the summer, participants will receive simple, non-judgmental notes/reflections to keep them anchored to the experience and motivated to continue to make progress toward their objectives. There will also be a small number of drop-in sessions over the summer that teachers can utilize at their discretion.

Keynote Reflection   VIEW RECORDINGS

• Day 1: Elaine Ayers,  English Teacher, Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha NE

• Day 2: Tony Harris, Principal, Cristo Rey High School, Atlanta GA

• Day 3: Perry Petrich, S.J., Theology Teacher,  Jesuit High School, Sacramento CA

Learn more about our keynote speakers here.