Drivers

Our Pathbreaking Research

Our research hub at Teachers College harvests practices from leading schools that have achieved excellence in promoting the inner spirit of their students. We test methodologies and tools that schools can use to build a culture and climate of awareness, belonging and connectedness.

THE TWELVE DRIVERS OF

SPIRITUALLY SUPPORTIVE SCHOOL CULTURES

 

  1. Transcendent Practice | Cultivating practices that nurture and elevate an augmented form of awareness
  2. Intentional Lexicon | Using a common language throughout the school rooted in interconnectedness, transcendence and service
  3. Transformative Relationships | Building student-teacher relationships grounded in connection and love
  4. Integrated Mission |Vertically integrating a lived and meaningful mission
  5. Aspirational Values | Holding aspirational goals inside and outside of the classroom
  6. Meaningful Learning | Connecting knowledge and service inside and outside of the classroom
  7. Nature Consciousness| Facilitating opportunities to form deep, lived relationships with nature and all life
  8. Ritual | Promoting community identity and belonging among diverse staff and students through ritual and celebration
  9. Inherent Worth | Seeing, knowing, valuing and drawing upon the deep spirit of every member of the school community
  10. Authorized Keeper | A professional post for the embodiment and expression of core values
  11. Spiritual Quest | The educator is invited into their own spiritual journey in a way that is constitutional, inclusive and non-coercive
  12. Multiple Epistemologies | Knowing through intuition, mystical awareness as well as logic and empiricism

THE TWELVE DRIVERS OF

SPIRITUALLY SUPPORTIVE

SCHOOL CULTURES

 

  1. Transcendent Practice | Cultivating practices that nurture and elevate an augmented form of awareness
  2. Intentional Lexicon | Using a common language throughout the school rooted in interconnectedness, transcendence and service
  3. Transformative Relationships | Building student-teacher relationships grounded in connection and love
  4. Integrated Mission |Vertically integrating a lived and meaningful mission
  5. Aspirational Values | Holding aspirational goals inside and outside of the classroom
  6. Meaningful Learning | Connecting knowledge and service inside and outside of the classroom
  7. Nature Consciousness| Facilitating opportunities to form deep, lived relationships with nature and all life
  8. Ritual | Promoting community identity and belonging among diverse staff and students through ritual and celebration
  9. Inherent Worth | Seeing, knowing, valuing and drawing upon the deep spirit of every member of the school community
  10. Authorized Keeper | A professional post for the embodiment and expression of core values
  11. Spiritual Quest | The educator is invited into their own spiritual journey in a way that is constitutional, inclusive and non-coercive
  12. Multiple Epistemologies | Knowing through intuition, mystical awareness as well as logic and empiricism

Our Pathbreaking Research

Our research hub at Teachers College harvests practices from leading schools that have achieved excellence in promoting the inner spirit of their students. We test methodologies and tools that schools can use to build a culture and climate of awareness, belonging and connectedness.