Rooted in cognitive science while honoring the voices of all stakeholders, join me in exploring topics from the future of learning to the art of assessment, the science of play to the power of design thinking.

It’s time to uncover the secrets to empowered, generative, and sustainable shifts to the way we learn.

Bite-sized talks interspersed with active learning and collaborative discovery

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THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION AND INNOVATION:

  • KEYNOTE: Designing a More Equitable Educational Future

  • TALK: Igniting Innovation in Local and Global Education

  • WORKSHOP: Solving the Problems of Tomorrow with the Learners of Today

 
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THE ART OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT:

  • KEYNOTE: Demystifying Assessment: Formative Practices to Level Up Assessment in Every Classroom

  • TALK: Deepening Engagement Through the Intentional Application of Emerging Technologies

  • WORKSHOP: Level Up Your Assessment Practices: Calibrating Assessment Through Communities of Practice

 

THE SCIENCE OF PLAY:

  • KEYNOTE: Bugatti and the Brain: The Striking Similarity Between Play & Gray (Matter)

  • TALK: Designed to Play! Creating Playful Learning in Every Classroom from K-Gray

  • WORKSHOP: More than a Score: How Play Levels Up Learning

 

THE POWER OF DESIGN THINKING:

  • KEYNOTE: Designed to Learn: Using Design Thinking to Bring Purpose and Passion to the Classroom

  • TALK: Paper to Plan: A Protocol for Co-Creating the Change We Want to Be in the World

  • WORKSHOP: 0-60: Design Thinking to Create an MVP

 
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SECRETS TO EMPOWER ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN A LOCAL AND GLOBAL LEARNING COMMUNITY:

  • KEYNOTE: Better Together: Maintaining the Sustainability of the Joy of Teaching

  • TALK: Raising Community Voice to Design the Change We Want to Be in the World

  • WORKSHOP: Team Building: Raising Voices of All Stakeholders to Create a Shared Vision

Keynotes, workshops, retreats, and professional development sessions are presented with opportunities for sustained engagement throughout the school year

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Escaped the Ivory Tower: A video explainer series by Lindsay Portnoy & Greg Toppo

Escaped the Ivory Tower
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Milgram wanted to know how far conformity would extend: Would individuals conform to a group even if it went against their own moral judgement?

Many subjects told experimenters afterwards, “I wouldn’t have done it by myself. I was just doing what I was told.”

See the rest of season one here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSqxxV2GMVzQpnytavBOlxA

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When your mother suggested you’d jump off a bridge if your friends were doing it, she had scientific evidence to back her up.

In fact, Solomon Asch showed that conformity is real and that given the right circumstances, subjects would literally believe the crowd over the evidence of their own eyes.

See the rest of season one here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSqxxV2GMVzQpnytavBOlxA

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Muzafer Sherif was a social psychologist who believed that given a common goal, all individuals could work together in peace.

To provide evidence for his theory, he took a group of 11-year-old boys to an overnight camp and made them sworn enemies. Then he and his team would flip the script by starting a forest fire so the boys could come together and extinguish the blaze.

What could possibly go wrong?

See the rest of season one here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSqxxV2GMVzQpnytavBOlxA

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Wendell Johnson was an American Psychologist whose childhood stuttering became the foundation for his later research. He believed that stuttering begins “not in the child's mouth but in the parent's ear.''

To provide evidence of his theory he needed to demonstrate that anyone, even a child with typical speech, could be trained to stutter.

You see where this is going, right?

Find the rest of the episodes from season one here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSqxxV2GMVzQpnytavBOlxA

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If a guy with a metronome can make you salivate, is free will an illusion?

Check out the entire first season here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSqxxV2GMVzQpnytavBOlxA