Presentations

Are you interested in art for well-being, for processing emotions, developing a sense of calm or for helping students transition to new activities and spaces? I will share some short "brain break" type activities, therapeutic exercises, and well-being strategies that you can use for the most part with minimal time and basic resources.

This workshop empowers leaders and different stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to ethically and effectively integrate AI into their schools, fostering innovation while ensuring a responsible and informed community aligned with schools' commitment to excellence in education.

This presentation will delve into the best practices for this type of course, including skill-building, design process, mentorship, tools & equipment, while also highlighting some of the stories and product outcomes from our flagship design course at CIS.

This session offers a fresh perspective on leading sustainable change. Shane will explore how to distinguish between superficial rebranding and genuine progress, showing how to work with your school's institutional memory rather than against it.

The presentation will seek to understand why current schooling is fundamentally flawed and what schools can be doing instead to prepare students for the 21st Century.

This session will focus on the principals of Tidy Data which are quickly becoming the industry standard for science and industry. In this active workshop participants will work with messy, real-world datasets and learn shortcuts that their students can take to tidy them up for easy visualization and deep insights.

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.

In this presentation, I will share a curation of resources which will empower you to launch or enhance a Digital Citizenship program at your school.

The great outdoors provides endless opportunities for student growth and discovery, including improving academic performance, fostering personal and social development as well as the improvement of physical and mental health and wellbeing.

In this presentation, teachers will develop their understanding of a small set of scaffolding strategies.