Coming Out of Covid: Seizing the Opportunity to Design Post-Pandemic Education

Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson
The Big Questions Institute

Details

Date: Saturday, September 3, 2022

Time: 9:00 AM to 12 noon (Hong Kong Time)

This is three-hour program comprised of two 90-minute sessions separated by a 30 minute break. Registrants should attend both of the 90-minute sessions.

Format: ZOOM Meeting (Zoom link will be sent 2 days before the event.)

Registration fee: $100 USD

$250 for Non-Members.
Please contact info@earcos.org to be placed on the Guest Waitlist.

Description

While schools across the world are embroiled in day-to-day survival, at some point, the chaos of the pandemic will subside. We will get our wind back, and once we do, we’ll have to take stock of how we (as individuals, as leaders, as educators), our schools, and the world have changed. And, importantly, we’ll also have to think deeply about what our schools and education must become to navigate an increasingly uncertain future.

Coming Out of Covid is a 3-hour overview and interactive workshop that will build your capacity as an educator and leader to understand this moment more deeply and make the best strategic and academic decisions you can for your students and community moving forward. We will focus on the ways in which we can harness opportunities before us to build our personal capacity, and to design a new normal for schools – one that is more relevant, healthy, sustainable, and just.

After this workshop, you will:

  • Have a clearer sense of how the pandemic has changed the job description for school leaders, how we might build our personal skillsets and mindsets to withstand inevitable challenges to come, and how to re-discover the empathy, creativity and joy that led us into education as a profession.

  • Recognize the opportunities for institutional change that the pandemic has created.

  • Have a clear understanding of the starting points for design when it comes to wellness, learning, justice, and thinking about the future.

  • Come away with tools that you can use to begin the design process in your school community.

Now is the time to explore a different future of schools. Why not join the conversation with experienced, internationally-recognized facilitators, and with colleagues from the region who share your concerns and hopes?

Homa Tavangar

For over three decades, Homa Sabet Tavangar’s work has addressed themes of culture, innovation, leadership, global citizenship and global competence, and deep diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion. She connects timely topics of the moment with the timeless desire to work with purpose and make a difference – whatever one’s circumstances.

Homa’s clients range from Fortune 50 corporations to public, international and independent K-12 schools around the world; from an Ivy League university to Disney Channel and numerous not-for-profit public and multilateral organizations and professional associations. Co-founding the Big Questions Institute represents a natural extension of her work, especially during a time of unprecedented global challenges.

Homa is the author of widely-acclaimed Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (Random House, 2009), Global Kids (Barefoot, 2019); The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Sage/Corwin, 2014), contributor to Mastering Global Literacy, Heidi Hayes-Jacobs, ed. (Solution Tree, Nov. 2013) and the 3-book Take-Action Guide to World-Class Learners (Corwin, 2016) series with Professor Yong Zhao. Growing Up Global was the inspiration behind NBC-Universal’s animated series Nina’s World, starring Rita Moreno, and has been hailed by international education and business leaders and media ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to the BBC, NPR, NBC, ABC, Washington Post.com, Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, Boston Globe, PBS, Scholastic, Parents Magazine, Rodale, and many more.

Homa has lived on four continents, has heritage in four world religions, and is the mother of three daughters. She and her husband live just outside Philadelphia.

Will Richardson

A former public school educator of 22 years, Will has spent the last 15 years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks, education, and systemic change. Most recently, Will is a co-founder of The Big Questions Institute which was created to help educators use "fearless inquiry" to make sense of this complex moment and an uncertain future.

In 2017, Will was named one of 100 global "Changemakers in Education" by the Finnish site HundrED, and was named one of the Top 5 "Edupreneurs to Follow" by Forbes. He has given keynote speeches, led breakout sessions, and provided coaching services in over 30 countries on 6 continents. (Come on Antarctica!) He has also authored six books that have sold over 200,000 copies worldwide, and given TEDx Talks in New York, Melbourne, and most recently Vancouver.

Will has two adult children, Tess and Tucker, and lives in rural New Jersey with his wife Wendy.

Registration

Registration Fees:
EARCOS Members: $100 USD
Non-Members: $250 USD