George Barcenas

George Barcenas is the Technology Coordinator/CTE for Bellevue Union School District. Certified Google Trainer, Educator and Apple Certified Teacher. Trained as a PE teacher he has taught High School English, Spanish and coached Basketball from Middle School all the way to College. Technology has always been in his teaching from creating commercials in Spanish class to work on vocabulary, to creating a production of Romeo and Juliet with zombies... He now teaches coding, G-Suite and web/video design with iMovie and Adobe After Effects. In his current role he also works with teachers to find the right tool to help students. His passion for teaching has found a place with Google apps for education and pushing the boundaries of being geeky.

Thursday Keynote Speech" My Name is "Jorge"

Kevin Bartlett

Kevin Bartlett has held leadership positions in the UK, Tanzania, Namibia, Austria and Belgium, where he was most recently Director of the International School of Brussels (ISB), a fully inclusive school with 1550 students from 70 nationalities, from 2001-2015.

He has been deeply involved in transforming international education on a number of fronts:

He has co-designed accreditation systems for the European Council of International Schools (ECIS), the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEAS&C) and was one of the small team that developed ACE, an innovative new accreditation protocol for NEAS&C.

He was a member of the Founding Board of CIS and served as Chairman for four years, and a Board Member of the Academy of International School Heads (AISH). He has served on numerous other Boards, include CASE Europe and AMCHAM, Belgium.

Kevin is a regular author, a keynoter/workshop leader at multiple international and national conferences, and a consultant/coach on a wide range of themes, including Leading and Governing on Principle. He enjoys facilitating school communities in the process of creating or refreshing their mission, vision and plans, with a focus on creating shared learning cultures. In this context, he often works with Parent Associations, framing their work for optimum positive impact within the school community.

Kevin was a writer and trainer in the field of curriculum design for the Principals' Training Center (PTC) and a designer/trainer for the series of Experienced Principals’ Summits.

As a curriculum innovator Kevin was the initiator and early leader of the IB Primary Years Programme and is currently the Co-Founder and Co-Director of two successful global initiatives:

· The Next Frontier: Inclusion, a global network that is supporting schools on the path to inclusion.

www.thenextfrontierinclusion.org

· The Common Ground Collaborative, a Learning Ecosystem and school transformation system for international and national schools. www.thecgcproject.org

Kevin’s achievements have been recognized by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), which named ISB as one of six Schools of the Future, and by the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE) and The Association of American School Administrators (AASA) which named Kevin as International Superintendent of the Year 2014.In April 2015, Kevin received the Award for The Promotion of International Education from The European Council of International Schools. In January 2019, Kevin was inducted into the AAIE Hall of Fame for contributions to international education.

Kevin is also an accomplished wildlife photographer. His work can be found at www.onwildground.com. A book of his photographs, Nature for Nurture, was produced as a fund-raising project for COHP, the Children of Haiti Project.

Contacts: Email: kevin@thecgcproject.org Mobile: +54 911 2307 9424

Friday Keynote Address

Mistakes Are Opportunities for Learning…But Only if we Make Them so.

Unfortunately, we often don't. Unless we intentionally mine a mistake for the learning it contains, it remains, well, just a mistake…and one we are likely to repeat.

At this year's T3 Conference, we plan to change all that. With 700+ attendees, that's potentially 700+ powerful mistakes from which 700+ teachers can learn.

In order to capture this rich error-strewn field, we need to do some work in advance. Here's what we'd like you to do:

Pick a Mistake

Select a professional error from which you really learned and which you are prepared to share in a small team. Think, in terms of my learning as a professional, 'What's the best mistake I ever made?'

Prepare your Mistake for Sharing

It will help if we all frame our thinking using this useful After Action Analysis:

What was supposed to happen?

What actually happened?

What accounts for the difference?

What did I learn?

Come prepared to share in a trio…

…and we'll do the rest. In a collaborative, large-scale activity, we will learn 'the wisdom of the crowd'…a compilation of the learning that ensued from the best mistakes we ever made. That's really learning from each other!

Thank you for participating in this group learning event and see you soon!