Presentations

Student indifference can change the culture of the classroom. In this session, you will learn about different strategies and approaches that can help rethink how you market your learning to your students.

Illustration study empowers students to tell their stories the way they see them in their mind. Based on the illustration work of Katie Wood Ray and Sylvia Duckworth, teachers will learn how to use an illustration study to teach young writers that their pictures hold meaning.

In this keynote, Ewan will share lessons from undertaking more strategy in a year than most directors get to do in a lifetime, through hundreds of strategic planning projects across 72 countries.

This workshop will be hands-on based on Stanford d.school’s innovation model. Participants will bring a real-world challenge and we will work together to consider how to leverage organizational resources to develop several potential solutions for implementing change. Participants will consider how they can follow up to gather data to clearly demonstrate outcomes. By applying this process to operational issues, the concepts can be replicated and time and energy can be repurposed toward your mission, vision, and professional passions.

In this session, educators will explore how real-world experiences empower students to develop their purpose. OWN Academy founder and CEO Natalie Chan will share OWN's journey as a real-world experience platform committed to helping learners unlock their full potential. Discover how OWN works with industry professionals and gives employers the opportunity to take on educator roles, bridging the education to employment gap and shaping a new generation of purpose-driven problem solvers.

Systems thinking posits that when we don’t understand how everything is interconnected, our solutions can cause more problems.

Share the overview of the PRAXIS program at ISKL. What works, and what has been a challenge? How can your school begin a program like this?

Join us as we delve into VSA's distinctive approach to integrating technology and innovation within the Units of Inquiry, seamlessly merging them in a transdisciplinary manner.

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.