A Program for Transformative Teachers: Cultivating Resilient and Ethical Young Leaders
Become a Transformative Teacher!
The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering intensive one-day “Transformative Teachers” workshops for high school and middle school teachers; providing teachers with the tools and methods for fostering resilient and ethical young leaders. This program supports two ongoing initiatives to develop ethics and leadership among youth: Young Peace Leaders, targeting elementary and middle school aged children, and Compassionate Young Leaders for young adults in high school and university.
Program Goals
Through interactive workshops that engage teachers in discussion, introspection and experimentation, the Transformative Teachers program trains teachers to integrate the development of cognitive skills, social-emotional understanding, and ethical purpose; enabling teachers to make a profound and lasting impact on their students. The workshops intend to achieve the following goals.

• Explore the influence of core values and vision on teaching practice and on leadership development for students;
• Introduce and demonstrate activities for cultivating empathy, self-awareness, emotional understanding and clarity of values inside and outside the classroom;
• Establish a growing community of teachers committed to the development of resilient and ethical young leaders;
• Develop a plan for sustained activities at the participants’ respective schools.