Leading Learning
Always Learning
Tara is, at heart, a creator. She engages in deep work to lead learning and change within schools and she is pleased to share her learning along the way. In addition to facilitating learning within the organization, she presents regularly at conferences and online.
The Leadership Cohort
Riffa Views International School
IGNITE Day 2020-2021
The Leadership Cohort is a yearlong certificate course for 8th, 9th and 10th graders. We are exploring and expanding our leadership skills with the goal to make a difference in our school, community and the world.
Please visit our site to learn more about our impact and our learning: bit.ly//rvisleads
Foster Compassion, Inspire Innovation
LEVEL 5, Bahrain
May 2021More info hereGRC Heads Huddle
Dubai
ISS EdLeaders Conference
Princeton, NJ
3 Cs & an F
LEVEL 5 TeachMeet
Virtual
IGNITE, Personalize, Impact: A Future-Driven Schedule
The Future of Education is Now Festival of Learning
Western Academy Beijing
From Handbook to Playbook
GRC Heads Huddle
November 2019What's most important: what we do or how and why we do it? Most staff handbooks are generic and can travel from school to school, but they don't define our unique schools. Shifting to a Playbook model forces us to think deeply about who we are and how & why we choose to focus on the things we do, thereby creating cohesion for our work. There's no recipe, but there is great reward. What will your next play be and how will you communicate it?
Imagining the Future
Keynote Speaker
Teachers of Young Children Annual Conference
2017
Imagining the Future
“Your imagination becomes the preview of life’s coming attraction.” ~ Albert Einstein
The world is changing and the change in the past 30 years has been more rapid than that of the last 100 years. Schools are currently grappling with how best to prepare students for an uncertain world, and this can be exciting and scary. As we imagine the future of our youngest learners, do we know what we are preparing them for? What jobs will they hold? What skills will they need? What are our hopes for them? Though we often focus our change efforts in secondary schools, when we plan for the future, we should be planning for our youngest learners. Join today’s conversation as we explore learning, our hopes and fears for our students, and imagine the possibilities of tomorrow.
Vision & Values Into Practice
ISG Learns 2017
International Schools Group Annual District Conference
November 2017Transforming Student Learning
ISG Learns 2016
International Schools Group Annual District Conference
November 2016Organized a conference for 400+ educators that offered a myriad of sessions and provided cohesion amongst our district goals of literacy, technology integration and collaboration.
Are you a failure hypocrite?
ISG District Convocation
August 2016Poetic Voices: Using Digital Storytelling to Visualize Narrative Poetry
ISTE Annual Conference
DSN Playground
ISTE DSN Webinar
2015ISG Literacy Summit
November 2015View a video of the original webinar here.
Campfire, Cave, Watering Hole
ISG District Convocation
August 2015Apologies for the broken link; we are seeking its new home
Measuring What Matters
NESA Fall Leadership Conference
Kathmandu, Nepal 2013View conference program here.
Additional Presentations
Living Drama
NESA Spring Educators Conference
Athens, Greece 2007Performance Poetry
NESA Spring Educators Conference
Bangkok Thailand 2006Plan Your Year
Professional Educators Around Kuwait Conference
Kuwait 2006Living the Writers Life
High School National Writing Conference
Kuwait 2006Memoir Writing
Middle School National Writing Conference
Kuwait 2006Facilitate Internal learning
RVIS
Futures Planning
Future Search
Elevator Pitches
Monthly Strategic Meetings
Leadership Retreats & Schoolwide Leaders
Learner Agency Pathway
Compassion Committee
IGNITE Team
Shared Stories
ISG
Coaches Retreats
Leadership Retreats, Meetings & Workshops
Literacy Lead Teachers Training Days
Learning Team Think Tank
Systems Improvement Team
Facilitate Consultants & Cohorts
Coaching: Stephen BarkleyLiteracy: Emily DeLiddoMSIS: Erma AndersonC3: Fay GoreNGSS: Paul Andersen Digital Storytelling: Bernajean Porter Learning Commons: Jessica LevittOrganizational Improvement: Dr. Debra WebbASK
Understanding by Design
Curriculum Mapping
Developing Rubrics for Core Skills
Formative Assessment
Teaching in the Block Schedule
Homework Task Force
Collaborative Learning Committee