Presentations

This session will provide educators with a framework to inspire students to see mathematics as a force for positive change.

Participants will explore student projects that tackle real-world challenges, from urban mobility to climate action, and learn how to guide learners through the Project-Based Learning (PBL) cycle using mathematics as a lens for problem-solving, analysis, and advocacy.

From the author of Practical Marketing for Your School Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited), Corinna (CL) Mansfield.

This hands-on, interactive workshop teaches participants how to recognize that line when they see it, and what to do once they have.

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.