Workshop Leaders
How does the conference work?
Keynotes: You will hear from each of the speakers as part of the keynote speeches on Friday (and Saturday) morning.
Workshop Themes: You will participate in workshop sessions from one of workshop leaders.
Choice: Your first, second or third choice of preference is gathered during registration. We will aim to provide your first choice. Preferences will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Keynote/Workshop Leaders
Notosh (Keynote and Workshops)
Location: Second floor to the left (MYP Lounge)
Ewan McIntosh and his team work with people in schools, universities and companies to help them identify and overcome their greatest challenges, to work better together and rethink the environment in which they learn.
Ewan is the co-founder of TeachMeet and amongst the first to bring design thinking to whole-school curricula in 2010.
Workshop themes:
Differentiation by design: hexagonal thinking
Metaskills that empower students to take on more complexity
Accelerate curriculum innovation: adopt a design cycle
Find out more about Notosh here
Jaimie P. Cloud (Keynote and Workshops)
Location: 1st Floor to the Right (Library)
Jaimie cares passionately about: “The potential of schools and communities learning and working together toward sustainable community development.”
Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New York City. The Cloud Institute is dedicated to the vital role of education in creating awareness, fostering commitment, and guiding actions toward a healthy, secure and sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations.
The Big Ideas within the workshops:
Systems thinking, System dynamics and change (interdependence), Living within natural laws and ecological principles, Inventing and affecting the future
Responsible Local and Global Citizenship, Healthy Commons and Sustainable Economics
Find out more about Jaimie here: https://cloudinstitute.org/jaimiecloud
Ben Ward (Keynote and Workshops)
Location: 3rd Floor to the right (Performing Arts Room)
Ben Ward is an experienced Leadership & Organisational Coach who helps organisations work better to serve meaningful missions.
Developing inner abilities to increase our impact for the world
In this uncertain and complex world how do we ground ourselves to be able to respond with intentionality & wisdom to whatever is thrown at us? In this keynote we will explore why developing inner abilities is essential to building a more sustainable world at the personal, classroom & societal level. Inner abilities are built on the Inner Development Goals framework and consist of five dimensions of human growth and development: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating and Acting.
Building on his keynote, his series of 3 workshops will go deeper and get practical with ways to develop your inner abilities to increase your own and your students' learning and growth. Science is proving that if we take control of our internal state we can influence what is going on in our wider lives. In a safe and courageous space be ready to go on a journey of self-discovery with other amazing educators.
Nadia Abdallah (Keynote and Workshops)
Location: 2nd Floor to the right ("Fishbowl")
Nadia Abdallah is the Chief Education and Development Officer at INJAZ Al-Arab, who are part of the Junior Achievement Worldwide global network, one of the largest NGOs serving youth globally.
Workshop themes:
Student agency: What life skills can we bring into the classroom to promote student agency?
Differentiation: How do we differentiate? How do we use student agency when differentiating?
Technology: How do we use technology to differentiate, and give 21st century learners a voice in the classroom?
Learn more about Nadia Abdallah
Nadia Abdallah is an educator and trainer who holds a B.A in English from Montclair State University, an M.A in Adult Education from the University of Phoenix, and a Master of Education in Practice-Based Educational Research (Med PBER) from the University of Exeter. She is also a doctoral candidate focusing on a degree in Educational Technology Leadership. Nadia is an IB workshop leader, examiner and team visitor for the Council of International Schools (CIS). She has published articles regarding standardized testing and bilingual education and is a firm believer in equal access to education.
With over 15 years of teaching and coaching experience, Nadia has held positions such as IB English teacher, IBMYP Coordinator, K-12 Director of Teaching and Learning, Chair of the CIS Committee, Head of the English Department (K-12), and MYP Principal. During her last year in a school setting, Nadia oversaw the digitization of the school curriculum, while shifting from a physical classroom setting to a virtual one during the pandemic. Nadia worked with different educational institutions on specific areas such as content creation, technology integration (artificial intelligence in particular), and developing literacy scope and sequences for various schools in Jordan.
Nadia is currently the Chief Education and Development Officer at INJAZ Al Arab and oversees the educational and business development operations in 13 countries in the MENA region. INJAZ Al Arab joined the global network of Junior Achievement Worldwide in 2004 (one of the largest NGOs serving youth globally), becoming the Regional Operating Center for the MENA region. They are also recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for the current academic year!
Find out more about INJAZ here: https://injazalarab.org/
Find out more about Nadia here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-a-14510032/
Molly Fannon (Keynote only)
Location: Join online at workshop locations, delivered live from Notosh location
Molly is CEO Of UN Live, and organization working to where each person discovers their own agency to drive positive change forward– and experiences a belonging to a “Global We.”
Unleashing the true power of young children to shape the world – NOW – and not later.
Molly will explore the ways we can foster and increase momentum of children’s ability to imagine – and advocate for – a more promising future. She is particularly focused on establishing mechanisms to develop profound empathy across divides – geographic, age, even species.
Find out more about UN Live here