Presentations

Making big decisions and really inclusive plans for your school’s future is a delicate process, and all too often it’s one that educators struggle with.

This workshop explores the significance of student reflection in modern middle and high school education.

In just four hours, LivingWorks safeTALK helps staff, educators, and caring adults learn to recognize when someone may be thinking about suicide and find the right words and actions to connect them to help. 

Philly Free School is one of a small number of schools that really puts the power in the hands of students. At Philly free school students have as much say as the adults in not just what they learn, but how they learn.

For a decade, Ewan McIntosh’s firm, NoTosh, has tried to help school leaders see that five year plans don’t work. 2020 showed that they’re well and truly defunct.

"A live session where we will explore the benefits of a Making program in school. Beacon Hill School began their successful Making program in 2017.

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 focuses on describing an experience of co-teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic and long periods of online distance learning. It highlights student success in the area of literacy achieved despite the difficulties of social isolation and emphasizes how teachers' teamwork made a difference in the students' social-emotional well-being and academic progress.