Welcome!
This online community is built by educators, for educators, to support each other in our efforts to create educational programming that helps people find their pathways to positively contributing to social or environmental change. Anyone engaging in educational offerings designed to fuel positive impact efforts might find a home here.
We have a particular focus on supporting people to embed systems understanding into their offerings with a view that, by understanding the systems around us, we are more likely to be able to find pathways to contribute our time and talent. Whether you’re teaching in classrooms, supporting education within an organization or company, or facilitating learning workshops, this is your space to connect and grow.
About Us
We are a group of global social impact educators who have found each other, over the last decade, and connected to share resources, ask questions, and learn. Through being connected to a wide group of peers, we can support each other’s needs as well as build our collective capacity to contribute to social impact.
This group was fueled in part by a series of social impact educator gatherings where educators got together to discuss their needs, offers, ideas, and questions. You can see key learnings from the 2018 gathering at Yale University at systemschangeeducation.com including a “gallery walk” of systems change education offerings.
Our focus
The future of humanity, this planet, and of education require systems-aware, self-aware, and impact-focused educators who, in turn, support the development of those mindsets and skill-sets among their students and clients. By connecting and learning together we can not only fuel our own personal growth and capacities as educators, but also our individual and collective capacity to accelerate systems change contributions in a world in need of ethical, impact-focused, leaders.
This website provides a searchable home for social impact educators to find each other, connect, and share resources.
Why Join
Resourced and connected educators with a social impact focus are needed more than ever. As complexity increases with increased relationships and information, this time, with the size and scope of our global population, interconnectivity, and AI powered everything is when our complexity mindsets and skillsets need to be sharp. Here is a chance to build those systems and complexity tools while also building a network of similarly-focused educators.
Joining our email group gives you a chance to connect directly to hundreds of other social impact educators, learn what others are offering, be inspired, ask for help, and share resources. It’s also a place to find future collaborators, brainstorm ideas, or co-create!
This community is built on generosity and kindness.
Upcoming Events
Online Virtual Social Impact
Educator Gathering
- Date:Late May 2025 (exact date TBD)
- Location:Virtual
- What:A virtual workshop and connection gathering open to all.
Social Impact
Educator Gathering
- Date:June 2-3, 2025 (with optional extensions before and after)
- Location:Boulder, CO
- What:An in-person gathering, in Boulder, CO to meet other educators, share experiences, and learn together
Management info: This platform is powered by the collective contributions of social impact educators worldwide. The physical website is managed by Daniela Papi-Thornton of systems-ledleadership.com so reach out to her with questions or feedback.