Last week, the SocEntEDU team facilitated Junto 2020, the first in-person gathering of a diverse-by-design community of social entrepreneurship educators and practitioners.

“How do you pronounce that?” a few participants asked.

The “J” in Junto is pronounced as an “H”: Hunto.

“What does ‘junto’ mean?” others asked.

In Spanish, junto means “together” (similarly, junta means an “assembly”).

As we have noted before, entrepreneurship-based learning is one of the innovations climbing the far left curve of the Hype Cycle. More and more, social entrepreneurship education seems to be the focus of these efforts, which should not surprise us given the public-purpose mission of most schools.

Junto 2020 participants approach this question from many angles: social entrepreneurship coursework; social justice curriculum; service learning experiences; social finance clubs; social enterprises; non-profit work; and more.

We designed for that diversity of perspectives, because we believe that a pluralistic, mission-driven community will make greater contributions to the Common Good.

For that same reason, we began Junto 2020 by asking participants, “Who are your people? Who is guiding your work and giving you energy?”

Maybe your North Star includes social entrepreneurship; maybe you’re pursuing another vision. One way or the other, who are the people with you on that journey? And who are the people guiding you and energizing you?

Who’s in it with you—together, junto?

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