Episode Summary
Michael LoStracco of William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, PA is the first prize-winner of the 2024 Life Worth Living Secondary School Curriculum Design Competition. Held for the first time during summer 2024 by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, the Life Worth Living Secondary School Curriculum Design Competition invites secondary school educators to submit a curricular plan designed around the book Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz.
Held for the first time during summer 2024 by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, the Life Worth Living Secondary School Curriculum Design Competition invites secondary school educators to submit a curricular plan designed around the book Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz. The first prize winner receives $1,500, as well as an additional $3,500 stipend to complete their Life Worth Living curriculum design. Honorable mentions also receive prizes.
Michael LoStracco of William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, PA is the first prize-winner of the 2024 Life Worth Living Secondary School Curriculum Design Competition. Michael designed a course called “Living the Questions: Approaches toward a Life Worth Living,” the curriculum of which he will build out in consultation with the Life Worth Living team at Yale throughout 2025 before teaching his completed curriculum in fall 2025. Michael’s full curriculum will be promoted and shared on the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Life Worth Living websites for other secondary school educators to adopt and adapt.
Honorable mentions for the 2024 Life Worth Living Secondary School Curriculum Design Competition include Joy Craun of Grinnell High School in Grinnell, IA (proposed course: “The Art of Living”); Jacob Root of Grace Church School in New York, NY (proposed course: “Life Worth Living”); and Ryan Stewart of Libertas Academy Charter School in Springfield, MA (proposed course: “Life Worth Living”). Each honorable mention received a $500 prize for their curricular plan submission.
The 2025 Life Worth Living Secondary School Curriculum Design Competition will open in January 2025.