Presentations

This full-day, interactive workshop equips teachers, leaders, counselors, and caregivers to navigate digital challenges with clarity, confidence, and care.

The Science of Fun is a full-day, hands-on Funshop part playground, part research lab exploring the serious craft of play.

This study presents a longitudinal analysis of student performance, examining who is catching up, who remains behind, and how these patterns can inform strategies for learning recovery and system redesign.

This session presents the findings of a rigorous qualitative study conducted with IB teachers at an international school in Singapore.

In this interactive, research-informed session, participants will explore how gender stereotypes develop in early childhood and how everyday school practices can reinforce or interrupt them.

World-renowned speaker and wellbeing expert Dale Sidebottom, founder of The School of Play, invites you to an energising 45-minute keynote designed for every person in the room, educators, leaders and innovators alike. In an age of AI and accelerating technology, the skills that matter most are profoundly human: connection, creativity, resilience and joy.

Whether you're an experienced educator, a school leader or just beginning your teaching journey, you'll leave with a fresh perspective on how purposeful play and shared experiences can become one of the most powerful tools in your teaching and leadership toolkit. Helping students and staff teams learn more deeply, connect more meaningfully and genuinely enjoy the learning process and contributing to positive staffroom and classroom environments.

Whether you're a principal, deputy, head of department or emerging leader, this workshop will inspire you to lead with more connection, courage and joy, and give you the tools to take your whole school with you.