MICHAEL NACHBAR:

Developing Skills and Mindsets for Modern Teaching, Learning, and Leading

What are the habits of mind, skills, and competencies our students, teachers, and leaders need to be effective learners and educators in a networked world? Modern learning and technology has redefined the ways we engage our students, from the skills we expect them to develop to the habits of mind we wish for them to exhibit, such as building empathy and becoming self-directed learners.

In order to facilitate the development of those skills, teachers need to employ new strategies in their classrooms. The same is true for school leaders: to promote and measure the skills teachers need to successfully develop future-focused student learning skills, school leaders need to understand, develop, and put to use innovative leadership strategies.

In this workshop we will explore and tackle a variety of design thinking challenges that will help you and your community deliberately develop these competencies and habits of mind. You will identify the competencies needed by different constituents in your schools, and develop ways to deliver and measure them.

*Please bring your laptop to this workshop.

MICHAEL NACHBAR, ANDREW HOOVER & KEVIN CROUCH:

The Transformation of Professional Learning in the Digital Age

Participants will revisit a topic near and dear to the school leader’s heart: professional development. Our quest to transform schools into learning organizations has shifted our focus toward professional learning.

We want to explore drivers of contemporary school change, how they are creating new opportunities and challenges in the ways we think about and implement professional learning in digital age schools.

In our time together, we will listen, dialogue, discuss, reflect, design, and create. You will leave with a design thinking process and product for school leadership to inspire innovative thinking and doing in the professional learning spaces of your home school.