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[li icon=”0024.png”]Date: Thursday, November 7[/li]
[li icon=”0270.png”]Location: TBD[/li]
[li icon=”0086.png”]Time: 8:00 am – 9:30 am[/li]
[li icon=”1049.png”]Breakfast: (breakfast included)[/li]
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Keynote Speakers: Dr. Pam Moran & Ira Socol
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Topic: Leading with Optimism in a VUCA World: A Treehouse Metaphor
Pam Moran and Ira Socol will show how reframing the narrative of VUCA into an OPTI worldview helps School Boards and superintendents to lead educational communities to work from a focus on strengths and assets so that educators positively take on and find solutions to the grand challenges of educating contemporary learners facing an ever-evolving future. Through their OPTI World stories gathered from educators and students with whom they have worked , they will share how educational leaders can Open up equity and access, create Possibilities when change seems impossible, Transform leadership so that leaders can transform school culture, and amplify Imagination to generate innovative solutions to the challenges of learning in the rising Smart Machine Age. In this keynote, Pam Moran and Ira Socol will share the treehouse story as a beginning metaphor for how learning can change when educators embrace changes that amplify engagement and expand deeper, rich learning experiences to support equity and access for all young people.