Keynotes & Workshops

Through Their Eyes: Seeing the Possibility in Every Child

This “inspirational, affirming, and moving” keynote weaves together educational research, photography, personal narrative, and music to remind educators of our unlimited capacity to help each student see their true potential. (20, 40, or 60 minute keynote for all K-12 and higher education faculty and staff)

Catch them Learning: Academic Integrity in an Era of AI

An engaging, practical exploration of how a cheating scandal from the past provides insights on how to proactively support academic integrity in an era of AI. (20, 40, 60, or 90 minute keynote for K-12 staff and higher education faculty)

AI with Intention: 4 Guiding Principles & Action Steps for Teachers

A thought-provoking, practical overview of action steps to support students as they navigate the gap between using AI tools to complete school work and using AI tools to support their learning. (20, 40, 60 minute keynote for k-12 teachers and higher education faculty or 1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for 3-12 teachers and higher education faculty)

AI with Intention: 4 Guiding Principles & Action Steps for School Leaders

A thought provoking, practical overview of action steps to establish district or building-level policy, direction, and action to ensure AI tools are used in ways that support, rather than undermine, effective teaching and learning. (20, 40, 60 minute keynote or 1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for school leaders)

Cheating vs. Integrity: How (and Why) to Take a Humanist Approach to Academic Integrity Policies in an Era of AI

Everywhere, all the time, access to AI tools require educators to think differently about cheating and academic integrity than in the past. This workshop provides practical action steps to support academic integrity in an era of AI. (1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for grade 3-12 teachers and leaders, and higher education faculty and staff)

Navigating a World of Everywhere, All the Time, AI: School Leadership in a Time of Transformational Change

How can leaders effectively align leadership strategies and behaviors to their staff’s, student’s, and organization’s needs through times of transformational change? This keynote or workshop provides practical, research-based strategies to build collective capacity to move forward with humility and confidence. (20, 40, 60 minute keynote or 1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for K-12 leaders and higher education staff) Learn more

What’s Next? Technological breakthroughs, schools, students, & learning

A thought-provoking keynote that challenges participants to consider how technology from the 1880’s creates winners & losers in classrooms each day…and the potential of teachers to use AI tools as a resource to (finally) overcome the past. (20, 40, 60 minute keynote for K-12 teachers and leaders)

Prompt with Purpose: How to Prompt AI Tools to Ensure Intentional Teaching, Assessment, and Learning

Ask an AI tool to generate a lesson plan, teaching resource, or assessment, and it will do so. But, unless prompted intentionally, the output will be no better than clicking on a random link from a Google search. In this workshop, teachers will learn how to prompt AI tools in ways that ensure purposeful, effective, and intentional teaching and learning. (1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for grades 3-12 teachers)

A Path to Rigor: How to Use a Shared Language of Rigor to Support Effective Teaching and Deeper Learning

How to use the SOLO framework to establish clear learning goals, design quality assessments, and make accurate inferences about student learning. (1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for grades K-12 teachers)

Five Levers to Improve Learning: Prioritizing for Powerful Results in Your School

Why do some initiatives succeed while others fail? The Five Levers Framework can be used to plan and implement school and district initiatives in a manner that maximizes success. (20, 40, 60 minute keynote or 1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for school and district leaders)

Effective Feedback: Six Steps to Affirm and Inform Students’ Next Efforts to Learn

What are the characteristics of meaningful feedback? How can students be taught how to use feedback to guide their learning? This workshop gives teachers actionable steps to design and deliver feedback that students use to improve their learning. (1.5, 3, and 6 hour workshop for K-12 teachers) Learn more

Designing Effective Rubrics: 4 Steps to Help Students Focus on Quality

Too often, students see rubrics as a set of directions to follow in exchange for points and grades. Effective rubrics help students and teachers work together to guide students’ use of strategies and effort to produce high quality work. In this workshop, teachers will use 4 steps to design high quality rubrics. (1.5 or 3 hour workshop for grade 3-12 teachers)

Beyond ‘Voice and Choice’: Balancing Students’ Needs for Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness

Giving students voice and choice is widely accepted as a powerful way to support student autonomy and improve student engagement. But there is more to the story. Learn how strategies to support students’ needs for competence and relatedness are also essential to build student agency and engagement. (20 or 40 minute keynote, 1.5 or 3 hour workshop for grade K-12 teachers

Teaching with Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More

Teachers and students have access to more information and instructional resources than at any time in human history. But more is not better; more creates clutter that undermines effective teaching and learning. Learn the 6 elements of clarity that support effective teaching and learning (20, 40, 60 minute keynote), and identify where clutter exists in your school or classroom and how to take action to create clarity. (1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for grade k-12 teachers) Learn more

The Promise & Perils of Projects: How to Create Projects that Increase Engagement and Support Student Learning

Student projects improve student engagement and agency. But some projects are activities without understandin that result in busy work that has little impact on student learning. In this workshop, teachers will learn three steps to ensure projects are hands-on and engaging, and help students develop important, curriculum-aligned knowledge and skills. (1.5, 3, or 6 hour workshop for grade K-12 teachers)