16 February 3pm EST - Col: Ben Nelson - Founder and CEO of Minverva Project 45 minutes conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
https://www.minervaproject.com/about/team/ Mirar Ben Nelson
Biography:
Ben Nelson is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions across 22 countries, nearly five times greater than its closest competitor, Snapfish is among the top e-commerce services in the world. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million. Prior to joining Snapfish, Nelson was President and CEO of Community Ventures, a network of locally branded portals for American communities.
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22 February 1pm EST - Col: John Larmer - Co-developed the model for Gold Standard PBL 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
Bio:
John is an internationally-recognized expert in project-based learning (PBL), author, speaker, editor, curriculum developer, and professional learning designer. He is a passionate, innovative educator and long-time advocate for progressive school reform, dedicated to making learning more meaningful for all students.
John was a key builder of PBLWorks (Buck Institute for Education), the industry leader in project-based learning, serving as its editor in chief, director of publications, and director of product development. He co-developed the model for Gold Standard PBL that is the foundation of PBLWorks’ products and services, and oversaw the quality of all its written materials and website content.
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28 of February 3 pm EST - Col: Nick Salmon, Frank Locker and Gabriel Diago - Founders of the Revolution in Education Congress 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
The Founders of the Revolution in Education Congress are going to be talking about the purpose of schools and what the future holds for schools! They will talk about the Congress and the educational experts who are going to be attending and why you HAVE to go
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7 March 1pm EST - Col: Suzie Boss Writer and educational consultant writer and educational consultant - 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
Bio
Writer and educational consultant from Portland, Oregon, working to harness the power of teaching, learning, and storytelling to improve lives and transform communities. Recent projects have taken me across the United States and around the globe to support schools that are shifting away from traditional instruction and engaging students in real-world problem solving. I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with educators everywhere from India to Europe to South America. I’m PBLWorks National Faculty emeritus and long-time contributor to Edutopia.
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22 March 2pm EST - Col: Susannah Johnson Director of Global Curriculum and Coaching Development at What Schools Could Be 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
24 March: Catherine Fraise Founder of 100 Roads 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
31 March: Jill Hiwcha Founder Jills Place - 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
12 April 8am EST - Col: Spencer Fowler CEO and Superintendent of The Affiliated High School of Peking University's Dalton Academy 45 minute conversation +15 min Q&A led by learners
22 April: 24 Hours of PBL+, includes video conversations, minimal live sessions- a few of our keynotes or for example.
14 February - 22 February - 28 February - 7 March - 24 March - 28 March - 5 April - 12 April - 22 April
It is an important opportunity for schools and universities who want to change their educational model to send teachers, leaders, and early adaptors that will help the institution shift its educational model.
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Our Founders
Fran produced the Project-Based Learning Conferences at two colleges inBoston, USA and Providence, RI, USA for 10 years. She created and co-taught the Harvard UniversityGraduate School of Education institute Learning Environments for Tomorrow,LEFT.Honored as Planner of the Year by the Association for Learning Environments forher comprehensive planning approach, consensus building process, andstate-of-the-art school designs, Fran guides clients to position their schoolsfor better learning through visioning, school structure, development ofeducational programs, and enhanced connections to community.
Projects have been across the USA, plus 11 countries on five continents. Plenary speeches have been in the USA, plus nine countries on fivecontinents.
Nick Salmon is the founder and president of the Collaborative Learning Network. He is a ninth-generation educator focused on educational facility planning, professional development of educators and design support for future-flexible learning environments that cost less to design, build, own, operate and maintain. He is the world’s first self-certified educational furniture whisperer- capable of coaxing the greatest potential out of the unruliest school furnishings. His global practice (6 continents, 32 countries, 42 US states) includes c0-facilitating Harvard’s annual Learning Environments For Tomorrow Institute. In addition to working with more than 200 schools on more than 40 educational visioning and master planning efforts.
Gabriel E. Diago has been the director of innovation atGimnasio los Caobos for the past 10 years and has been the primary proponent oflearning through PBL. His students wonfirst prize in the prestigious Big Competition inEurope for their project to create a product that serves people in poverty.He has been leading the transformation of the school from traditional learning to PBL learning in close collaboration with Dr. Fran Locker as educational a,d architecturalconsultant.
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