2022 LCEEQ Annual Conference Archive

Alfie Kohn is the author of 14 books, including PUNISHED BY REWARDS, THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE, UNCONDITIONAL PARENTING, THE HOMEWORK MYTH, THE MYTH OF THE SPOILED CHILD, and, most recently, SCHOOLING BEYOND MEASURE. He has been described by Time magazine as America's ''most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.'' Kohn lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.

Recognized as a transformational leader in education, Dr. Jennifer Williams has dedicated herself for over 25 years to the field of education through her roles as an education activist, professor, school administrator, literacy specialist, and classroom teacher. She speaks, writes, and consults on practices that develop global perspectives and social good through creative uses of technology, and her research interests include innovations in teaching and learning, equity and diversity in education, and social action.</p><p> As an educator and author of the ISTE book, Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good, she champions teachers to use educational technology for social good. She is a professor at Saint Leo University, the co-founder of TeachSDGs and the non-profit organization Take Action Global, and the President of the ISTE Education Leaders PLN Board of Directors. She is currently a consultant for Adobe for Education, Empatico, and the U.S. Department of State and is working with ISTE and Routledge on two new books. Notable recognitions include being named Top 30 for K12 IT Educators (2020), #8 for Top Academics in STEM (2018), and #9 Top Campaigners in Sustainability (2018). Jennifer is inspired everyday by teachers and students who are catalysts for making the world a better place!

Rachael Mann speaks and writes about disruptive technology, education, and careers. She is the author of the children’s book, The Spaces You Will Go, The CTSO Competition Companion, and co-author of The Martians in Your Classroom.

Rachael holds an MA in educational leadership and has 14 years of classroom teaching experience. After leaving the classroom, her work led her to serve as the Network to Transform Teaching State Director, the Professional Learning Director of STEM, and the Arizona State Director for Educators Rising. She serves on national boards that are dedicated to ensuring that kids are future-ready. Rachael is listed in the Top 30 Global Gurus in Education.

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 and Oneness Lab 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, speaks (almost) four languages, and is the mother of three daughters. She and her husband live just outside Philadelphia.

A former public school educator of 22 years, Will Richardson 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.

Lisa Blackwell is the Co-Founder and President of Mindset Works, an organization founded with the mission to bring findings from research in the psychology of motivation and learning to the broader society. She has over 30 years of experience in research and practice related to the development of the Growth Mindset in both individuals and organizations, especially in education.

Dr. Blackwell received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University, where she collaborated with Dr. Carol Dweck on foundational research on the role of growth and fixed mindsets in education and the design of research-based programs and resources to develop effective learners, and was the lead author of the Brainology® curriculum now in use in schools across the country and internationally.

Dr. Blackwell also served as a leadership development coach for school administrators with New Visions for Public Schools in New York City for five years, where she embedded in dozens of diverse urban school communities. She is the author of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in textbooks on the malleability of intelligence and the impact of mindsets on motivation, behavior, and academic success, and her work has been featured in multiple print and electronic media outlets. She lives with her husband in Woodstock, NY and enjoys landscape design, cooking, and pampering her dog Max.

Dr. Andrew B. Campbell (DR.ABC) is a graduate of the University of Toronto, with a PhD. in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Diversity. He is presently an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Teaching (MT) Program at OISE, at the University of Toronto and an adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens University (online) in the Professional Master of Education (PME) program. He is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) and has been an educator for over 25 years in Jamaica, The Bahamas and Canada. He has authored two books: “Teachable Moments with DR. ABC: A Spoonful for the Journey (2015)” and “The Invisible Student in the Jamaican Classroom (2018).” His research and teaching focus on issues of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Racism/Anti-Black Racism, Educational Leadership, Black LGBTQI+ Issues, and Teacher Performance Evaluation. He has presented at numerous peer-reviewed academic conferences and has delivered many presentations as a workshop facilitator, keynote and motivational speaker. He loves people, food, fashion, and traveling.

Mike Kuczala has delivered keynotes, given presentations, facilitated professional development and taught graduate courses on 4 continents. His presentations, courses, books and videos have reached more than 100,000 teachers, trainers, corporate executives and parents. He is the coauthor of the Corwin Bestseller and Association of Educational Publishers’ Distinguished Achievement Award nominated, The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement, a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world. As well as several other books. For more details click here.

Mike proudly and humbly comes from a family of educators including his wife, sister, both parents and three grandparents. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Kutztown University and Master of Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado. Mike enjoyed a 10-year band and choral directing career in both Colorado and Pennsylvania. “I am the product of three generations of teachers. Education is what I love and do. It is always an honor and pleasure to work with both educators in helping them to become true instructional leaders, and corporate executives and trainers in providing presentation skill and effectiveness. My background in education gave rise to my love of teaching, public speaking, curriculum and training design, and helping people create goals and live their dreams.”

Laura McBain (she/her) is a designer, educator and the co-director of the K12 lab at the Stanford d.school. As a human-centered designer, her work focuses on understanding the ecosystem of education and finding meaningful opportunities to advance racial and social justice. Prior to the d.school, Laura worked for 15 years at High Tech High serving as the Director of External Relations, principal of two school sites and a founding teacher. She has taught middle and high school students in both charter comprehensive schools. Laura has a Bachelors from Miami University-Oxford, Ohio and a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Joanne McEachen is CEO/Founder of The Learner First (USA/Australia/New Zealand), an Edmund Hillary Fellow (EHF), a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar (Austria), on the Executive Committee for Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills (Global), on the Education New Zealand: North America Advisory Board, a Board Member for Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE) Global and a Co-founder of NPDL (Global).

Joanne supports all humanity to remember who they are, how they fit into the world and how they can contribute to our world. She has spent over 30 years working within and across school systems in multiple countries and can offer insights and strategies to re-connect the lives of students, teachers, families and communities to what matters. She provides ways to redefine what success looks like, recognizes that we learn best through Contributive Learning and has developed the Human Return Framework; a meaningful and relevant way to make the important measurable and not the measurable important.

Gabriel is the co-founder and Director of The Learnerspace, a company whose mission is to help build the future of learning. He is also co-founder of The Global School, the first school of its type in Latin America, attempting to make educational change a reality. Formerly Headmaster of St. Andrew’s Scots School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the oldest bilingual school in the world, he is a passionate educational futurist who is intent on sharing his belief that it is the best time in history to be an educator. Gabriel is the author of five books, and has contributed as a co-author to numerous other books and anthologies. A former board member of ASCD and chair of ESSARP, he has spoken and led professional development workshops all over the world, working with educators to help create the future of education.

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the boardroom, for over two decades. In 2003, after teaching in San Francisco and Oakland and organizing with the San Francisco Organizing Project to launch a new school, Safir became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond as having “beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color.”
Since 2008, Safir has provided leadership coaching, strategic planning support, and equity-centered professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the country and in Canada. She facilitates sought-after workshops on equity leadership, coaching, and facilitating adult learning among other areas. She writes frequently for Edutopia and ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine and is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation (Jossey-Bass: 2017). Shane’s newest book, Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin: 2022), is out now.

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