Intentional Innovation Conference

Participants will be guided through the Block Party learner-centered practice to help debrief and process the information from the sessions.

At its core, Project-Based Learning is about making learning- content, and skills- authentic. PBL adds authenticity and real-world challenges to the work students accomplish, and in the process making learning more engaging and memorable. This workshop gives concrete methods, practices, and resources to create a standards-based, skills and content rich classroom in an innovative project based learning model.

Participants will be guided through the Think-Pair-Share learner-centered practice to help debrief and process the information from the sessions.

A nationwide survey showed that the top reason people are fired from their jobs is that they lack soft skills: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, adaptability, and confidence. People lack these skills not because they are incapable of learning them, but because they never had a reason to. So much of the education system is focused on technical knowledge and "hard skills," and very little on these essential skills. Essentially, there was not enough purpose to do the hard work of developing soft skills. 
Trevor talks about how teachers can design learning experiences that require their students to develop essential skills. While still learning 'hard skills’ and academic content, students can do purposeful work that makes them better communicators, collaborators, problem solvers, and citizens. 

Challenges always have the potential to lead to growth. This keynote is about celebrating the work teachers accomplished during COVID, as well as discovering the wisdom and best practices uncovered during this unprecedented time as an educator. From adapting to new technologies to discovering authentic ways to engage students, the skills developed during the pandemic have the potential to transform how we teach forever.

Participants will be guided through the Think-Pair-Share learner-centered practice to help debrief and process the information from the sessions attended throughout the day.