Presentations

In this session, Simon will review four leadership lessons from the pandemic,  how leaders had to adapt and what that means moving forward.

Students love stories in their personal lives, both consuming them and producing them. Come learn secrets of storytelling teachers.

This presentation covers community, teacher and peer-mentoring and presents research findings which may inform good practice.

The traditional role of library shelving and furniture has changed.

This workshop will explore a process using systems and design thinking fused and an appreciative inquiry approach to create conditions for school communities to thrive. This includes strategies to map the larger system in which you are trying to effect change; build generative and collaborative conversations; and move from reactive problem solving to co-creating the future.

The presentation will share the experiences, insights and professional learning gained from the Discover journey and its impact on the future of education at our school.

This practical workshop will offer a powerful model for a DEIJ audit of our schools, which consists of the collaborative search for “spikes” within our schools and the cocreation of “curb cuts” that can help remove them.

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 engaging workshop delves into a transformative approach to educational enhancement in the Middle School.