Presentations

The Open School is the only self-directed democratic K-12 school in Southern California. Modeled closely after Sudbury Valley School, The Open School began operating in 2015 with just a handful of students. The school is committed to supporting the human rights of children, centering on the right to autonomy. Children at the school decide how to spend their time, as long as they are not infringing on the rights of others.

Here’s what you will learn: Why Educational Robotics is the most comprehensive and accessible design thinking solution. How the changing demands of the workforce can be met through STEM education. What the common hurdles are with teaching STEM today. How to encourage students to engage in a STEM-integrated learning experience. What VEX Robotics offers and how we support YOU.

Join me for a deep exploration of tools to empower, amplify and champion student voices of all ages, backgrounds and mother tongues.

Felicity Furey has overcome life’s biggest challenges to engineer a smart city, an inclusive society and an incredible career. How? With an Engineer Mindset - a technical approach to problem solving that delivers surprising results.

Participants will gain insights into how leadership team members at nine schools across Asia adapted their program of learning to not only survive, but thrive through the pandemic and reimagine learning the future of learning in their schools.

We will explain how over the course of 14 lessons, we embedded the key skills of our curriculum into our teaching, while using a story to engage and motivate our students through the wider topic of the year group. We will also share the academic models that underpin the lesson design and how we made cross-curricular links.

Join Rebecca as she walks you through the interdisciplinary body of research about reading and issues related to reading and writing.

Computational Thinking (CT)-coding education can play a key role in helping students build their problem-solving skills while nurturing them to be creators rather than just consumers of technology.

This presentation will describe the underlying IT infrastructure that exists in Western Canada, based on an exhaustive study of all 75 large K-12 districts in Canada's three westernmost provinces.

As educators we want to ensure that we are investing our limited time and energy into instructional strategies that will lead to student success.