Presentations

This session will take a slightly different perspective on self-care and focus on strategies to help teachers balance their workload to take care of themselves.

A Digital Playhouse Foundation open project to build a dynamic consensus-driven curriculum specifically for (de)financial literacy that has the ability to plug into any institution to support learners on the problem and project-based learning journeys.

In this presentation, Joe Dale will explore a range of tools that help all learners to access their learning.

The most effective way to develop leaders is when senior leaders make their own development transparent and actively mentor aspiring senior leaders to participate in and lead whole-school change initiatives.

Attendees will learn about the five pillars of lifestyle changes needed for a health-focused approach (as opposed to the disease-focused approach of modern medicine) to overall well-being.

This presentation talks of the trans-disciplinary nature of Design through an example of a MYP Design Unit, a Pin-Hole Camera.

In this workshop, we’ll dig into the key design principles and methods for learner-centered rubric design that disrupt some of the features of the most dominant approaches in the field: proficiency scales, deficit language, evaluation-focused rubrics, performance indicators that lack clarity, coherent progression, and/or are embedded with bias in their design or use.

This presentation will look at the history, purpose, and alternatives to traditional grades in education, and the role grades play in 21st century learning.

In this session, Vince Siu and Logan Stratman of Press Start Academy, a Hong Kong-based startup that designs award-winning educational games and game-based curriculums, will explore the benefits and challenges of conducting game-based learning in inquiry-based classrooms.

Learn about what makes Midland unique: place-based courses, experiential learning opportunities, the jobs program, outdoor leadership, our 10-acre organic farm, and our natural horsemanship program set on a working cattle ranch. Midland combines all this with rigorous college preparation AND students getting sufficient rest and leisure time. What systems do we have in place to make this work? Find out by joining this session!