Join us in Denver July 29 - August 2, 2024 for a rejuvenating adult learning experience.
Design the on ramp to the school year you’ve always wanted. Join us for a week of professional rejuvenation, where we will center building community with like-minded educators, shifting mindsets around key components of learner-centered design, and building action steps that you can take home with you.
About Our Summer Institute
Our Summer Institute is a week-long program designed to rejuvenate, replenish, and restore. In the setting of our beautiful, welcoming space in the heart of North Denver, you will engage with a wide range of experiences, including learning in the community, to inspire new possibilities for your school or classroom. You will have ample time and support to make meaning of your experience in the ways that are most impactful for you. You will have around-the-clock access to our fully-stocked space to use as you please, whether brainstorming in our cozy loft or soaking up the sun on one of our two outdoor patios. We will nourish body, mind, and soul with bountiful shared meals, wellness offerings, and intentional time to connect and reflect as a community.
Who is The Summer Institute for?
The Summer Institute is ideal for those who feel stuck questioning the status quo approach of traditional learning, and who seek to uncover new possibilities in education. Whether you are an Educator or a School Leader; a Dean or a Department Head; a Policy Maker or a Consultant, if you believe there has got to be a better way forward, this week is for you. This experience is designed to unite like-minded individuals from a variety of roles and organizations who seek to make an impact in their communities.
Over the course of five, spacious days, join us as we:
Build Community
The Summer Institute unites those who question the status quo approach of traditional learning. We will build a community to strengthen our spirits and reinforce that we are not alone in this work.
Shift Mindsets
We will get out in the community for a range of experiences that will support us in gaining new perspectives and ultimately, new possibilities in our work. For example, visiting a museum to reimagine how to design space in a meaningful way. With guided reflections throughout the week, our team will support you on your journey of making meaning of your experiences.
Prepare for Action
Equipped with new relationships and new perspectives, we will work together to unearth tangible and intentional action that will transcend beyond our week together into your home environments. You will have the freedom and trust to use your time in the ways that feel most supportive to you. Independent work and design time is intentionally interwoven throughout the experience to give you space to apply your learnings to your work. The Embark team will be available for one-on-one sessions to support you in feeling ready to reintegrate back into your home environment once our week together has come to a close.
Summer Institute Agenda
Each day is designed to foster connection, spur inspiration, and provide space and support to make meaning of your experiences.
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• Welcoming
• Framing the Week
• Lunch
• Grounding in Radical Trust
• Small Group Conversation
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• Framing the Day
• Community Experience
• Lunch
• Community Experience
• Closing Reflection
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• Optional Yoga (9:00 - 9:45am)
• Design Workshop
• Lunch
• Round One:
- Learner-Centered Design: Time and Space
- 1:1s with Embark Team
- Independent Thinking + Design Time• Round Two:
- Learning in the Real World: Learning Experience Design
- 1:1s with Embark Team
- Independent Thinking + Design Time• Closing Reflection
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• Learner-Centered Design Guest Speaker
• Speaker Q&A
• Lunch
• Round One:
- Learner-Centered Design: Choice and Relationships
- 1:1s with Embark team
- Independent Thinking + Design Time• Round Two:
- Learning in the Real World: Community Partners and Open-Walled Learning
- 1:1s with Embark Team
- Independent Thinking + Design Time• Closing Reflection
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• Group Sharing and Feedback
• Lunch
• Closing Reflection
*Schedule is subject to change
Summer Institute Pricing Options
Summer Institute Price: $1,000
If you are interested in bringing colleagues with you, and/or would like to attend and price is a barrier, please email Mark Gabriel to discuss group pricing and alternative solutions, respectively. We would like this opportunity to be accessible for all.
The Summer Institute includes:
An intentionally-designed mailer to welcome you to the experience
Morning coffee
Daily catered lunches
Bountiful snacks and beverages
Wide-range of dynamic sessions
One-on-one consulting sessions
Printed supporting materials + workbook
24/7 access to our open-concept, warmly-welcoming, highly-collaborative space
25 credit hours
Your payment goes directly towards covering this program’s costs, including all of the aforementioned resources and our team’s time.
We are grateful for your support to fuel our mission of empowering youth and adult learners to courageously inquire, engage, and discover a sense of self. We believe that every single individual has a deep and inherent brilliance within that - when given the time, trust, and space to flourish - can ignite powerful and lasting change. Thank you for supporting us in making that change possible.