#LLS23 Schedule

NESA 2023 LEARNING LEADERS SUMMIT, DUBAI, UAE

March 17-18, 2023

7:30-8:30	REGISTRATION American School of Dubai Entrance (Gate 1)
8:30-9:15	PLENARY SESSION - All Delegates Welcome Future Focused Keynote JULIE STERN & MADELEINE HEWITT: Innovation, Leadership & Well-being: Understanding the intersectionality of these three essential parts to our journey in transforming our schools and ourselves.
9:15-9:30	Transition time
9:30-10:30	STRAND COHORT SESSIONS Strand Cohorts Work with Specialists: For participants of the NNLS: Innovation in International Schools series. STRAND 1 – Rethinking Time and Space (Without Limits: Flexible Time, Space, and Agency for Transformative Learning): Ivy Yan STRAND 2 – Professional Learning and Evaluation (Effective Teacher Professional Growth and Appraisal Models): Steve Barkley STRAND 3 – Transdisciplinary Learning (Understanding AND Innovating: The Two Imperatives for Learning in Today's World): Julie Stern STRAND 4 – Blended Learning (Designing for Deeper Learning): Catlin Tucker Leadership for Innovation Cohort – Understanding the Innovation Journey & Mapping Your Innovation: TIM FISH & MADDY HEWITT For delegates who did not attend the NNLS Innovation series.
10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30	STRAND COHORT SESSIONS, continued...
12:30-1:30	LUNCH - Sponsored by Follett
1:30-3:00	PLENARY SESSION - All Delegates Panel on Chat GPT and AI Disruptive Digital Technology – Moderated by TARIQ QUREISHY, Founder & CEO, Xponential World and MAD Group A mediated, interactive dialog with participants exploring how Chat GPT and AI technologies are impacting education. How will technology be leveraged with attention to humanizing principles? How will teachers prepare for change? How will educators foster ethical and responsible use of AI to enhance the learning experience? How will schools mitigate against harm and maximize benefit as we greet the future? Panel: RUSSELL CAILEY, Managing Director, THINK Learning Studio RAYA BIDSHAHRI, Founder CEO, School of Humanity TIM FISH, Chief Innovation Officer, NAIS CATLIN TUCKER, Professor, MA in Teaching Program, Pepperdine University
3:00-3:30	COFFEE BREAK
3:30-4:30	DELEGATE CHOICE - All delegates are invited to attend a 1-Hour Specialist Workshop OR their choice of two 25-Minute Sessions. OPTION 1: One-Hour Specialist Workshops Professional Growth Plans that Maximize Teacher Growth for Student Growth: STEVE BARKLEY Blended Learning and Universal Design: Thrive in Any Teaching and Learning Landscape: CATLIN TUCKER Reimagining Time and Space: Heart, Head, and Hands for Sustainable Development: IVY YAN Whole School Curriculum Design: JULIE STERN OPTION 2: Attend two of the following 25minute Sessions 3:30-3:55pm – Tour of Service Learning Spaces: Space facilitates pedagogical change. Learn how students engage in education for sustainable development and applied learning. OR – Tour of Design & Innovation Spaces: See spaces designed for innovation: the design of learning spaces is a support factor for the incorporation of Design Thinking teaching-learning methodologies. ~ 3:55-4:05 transition time ~ 4:05-4:30pm – Ignite Day at Riffa Views International School: A school-wide, mission driven schedule that focuses on experiential learning, personalization and student agency. Learn about a new approach to learning, designed to help students be more agile in thinking, creative in problem solving and effective in collaboration. OR – Tour of ASD-Dubai Early Learning Centre: Designed to support children as they learn how to negotiate friendships, problem solve, improvise, explore, discover and build.
6:00	SOCIAL SOIREE Relax and reconnect with old friends and getacquainted with new ones. Venue: The Terrace, Media Rotana Dubai (Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served) Sponsored by Curriculum Associates

8:30-9:00	PLENARY SESSION - All Delegates Sponsored by the American Embassy School, New Delhi, India
9:00-10:00	SCHOOL SHARING SESSION - All Delegates Innovation Strand 2 – Effective Teacher Professional Growth and Appraisal Models (Professional Learning and Evaluation) Facilitated by STEVE BARKLEY
10:00-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:30	SCHOOL SHARING SESSION - All Delegates Innovation Strand 3 – Understanding AND Innovating: The Two Imperatives for Learning in Today's World (Transdisciplinary Learning) Facilitated by JULIE STERN
11:30-12:30	SCHOOL SHARING SESSION - All Delegates Innovation Strand 1 – Without Limits: Flexible Time, Space, and Agency for Transformative Learning (Rethinking Time and Space) Facilitated by IVY YAN
12:30-1:30	LUNCH Provided by NESA
1:30-2:30	SCHOOL SHARING SESSION - All Delegates Innovation Strand 4 – Designing for Deeper Learning (Blended Learning) Facilitated by CATLIN TUCKER
2:30-3:00	CLOSING PLENARY - All Delegates Wind-up, Synthesis, Takeaways – Commitment to Action