Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m., Grace-St. Luke's Sanctuary
free and open to the public (bring a friend)
Book signing
SACs credit
William Damon, author of The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life, will speak at Grace-St. Luke's School on Tuesday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the church sanctuary on the corner of Peabody and Belvedere. Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University. His current research explores how people develop character and a sense of purpose in their work, family, school, and community relationships. He examines how young people can approach their careers with a focus on purpose, self-understanding, imagination, and high standards of excellence. Damon also has written widely about how to educate for ethical understanding.
It is with great intention that Grace-St. Luke's invites Dr. Damon to speak about his book The Path to Purpose. This school year at Grace-St. Luke's will focus on helping each child start the process of understanding themselves as learners, with each child engaging in intentional programs and processes to discover their strengths, their learning style, and how to use this awareness to become strategic learners. Damon's work furthers the discussion to include how parents and teachers can use a child's self awareness and understanding as a platform to guide them to a sense of purpose, mission, calling or passion early in life. Finding a passion or calling early, Damon postulates, thereby gives a child a lens or powerful sense of meaning to the whole education journey.
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