Our Team
Samantha Deane
Director of Formative Leadership Education Project
Stanton Wortham
Project PI & Inaugural Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean
Martin Scanlan
Program Director, Educational Leadership and Policy, M.Ed. Professor & Project Co-PI
Chris Higgins
Department Chair, Department of Formative Education Associate Professor & Project Co-PI
Melodie Wyttenbach
Executive Director of Roche Center for Catholic Education
Ksenia Filatov
Graduate Assistant on the Formative Leadership Education Project
Harrison Mullen
Graduate Assistant on the Formative Leadership Education Project
Eric Roland
Graduate Assistant on the Formative Leadership Education Project
Our Work
Our passion project is building the organizational capacity and culture in schools and educational systems to promote holistic formation. The Formative Leadership Education team aims to foster relational networks that promote learning. We believe that catalyzing formative character education requires a multidisciplinary / multimodal approach to learning what works and what’s needed to vitalize a holistic culture of formative development.
- Through the KPCEL we create opportunities for members to network and collaborate.
- Learning during the KPCEL convening is extended and deepened by communities of inquiry, we call these working groups. In working groups theory and practice come into dynamic interrelation.
- Retreats nurture the intellectual, embodied, and spiritual dimensions of the leaders who constitute our network.
Magazine: Catalyzing Character Education
- Catalyzing Character Education generates conversation about the practices and theories that shape our efforts to challenge the narrowness and instrumentality of contemporary education and to recenter education around meaning and value, whole persons and flourishing lives.