The QUESTion Project is proud to have closed out another meaningful year in New York City high school classrooms, empowering students to shape their lives and futures with meaning and purpose. During the 2025-26 school year, our team partnered with eight high schools across the city, supporting 37 teachers and reaching over 1,200 students through The QUESTion Class and College QUEST.

This year’s work spanned semester-long and year-long courses, built around our five core pillars: Choice, Purpose, Fearlessness, Interconnectedness, and A Bigger Picture. Teachers brought these ideas to life in classrooms across the city, and in return, students demonstrated what can happen when they are given space in the classroom to reflect, question, and grow:

  • “This class has made me feel much more confident about my future. I used to feel stressed about making big life decisions, but now I look at my goals with a lot more inspiration and purpose.”
  • “The QUESTion Class has helped me feel lighter, as if a weight has been taken off my shoulders.”
  • “This class helps you find the real you, not the face you put on.”

– Students reflecting on their experience with The QUESTion Class this year.

Our partner educators inspired us throughout the year, as we visited their classrooms, engaged with them in targeted coaching sessions, and met with them during our first-year, second-year and veteran-teachers professional development days, where they learned from one another as much as from us. We facilitated a dynamic and fun Interschool Event that brought together students from two partner schools to share what they had learned, and we held refresher meetings with current students who had completed The QUESTion Class in a previous year, giving them a chance to revisit its ideas and stay connected to the community it built.

We welcomed back a familiar partner this year as well, returning to Alliance-MIT in Los Angeles to lead an Initial Teacher Training for three educators there. One of them will bring The QUESTion Class to the school’s entire senior class in the upcoming academic year.

This summer, we’re building on this momentum with a two-week paid summer internship for 25 students drawn from across several of our partner high schools, giving them a chance to put the course’s lessons into practice beyond the classroom.

As always, the heart of this work is our students. As in years past, they’ve shared how much they’ve valued exploring “big-life” questions with their teachers and peers, and how they are carrying forward in themselves a clearer sense of agency, purpose, and connection with others and the world around them.

We are grateful to our partner schools, our educators, and above all, our students, for another year of growth together.