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| In these uncertain times, educators face endless challenges. The days run long, the pressures are many. Yet inspiration can be found in the tenacity, dedication, and thoughtfulness of teachers and school leaders worldwide, committed to creating engaging places of learning for students. For years, Kath Murdoch, Dr. Ron Ritchhart, and Mark Church have long been champions and advocates for such efforts. We welcome you to join a moderated webinar with Kath, Ron, and Mark enjoying each other’s company, conversing together, and sharing their perspectives on what (still) matters for teaching and learning, despite (and perhaps because of) these challenging times. You’ll get an up and close chance to hear the many interesting and exciting connections they see between their highly-regarded expertise in promoting powerful inquiry and developing cultures of thinking. This is a conversation you won’t want to miss. This Webinar is moderated by Nancy Squicciarini |
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| KATH MURDOCH | |||||||||
| Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher, author, university lecturer and popular consultant who has worked for many years in schools throughout the world. With a focus on early childhood and primary education, she is widely respected as a leader in the field of inquiry based learning and integrative curriculum in which she has taught, researched and published for over 30 years. Kath began her professional life as a classroom teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Her fascination in how students' constructed their understandings - and her interest in the way questions and big ideas could drive curriculum soon lead to a passion for integrative and inquiry based methodologies. This passion has become a career-long focus for teaching, research and writing and the methodologies in which Kath specialises are now central to curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world - including the popular International Baccalaureate, PYP program. Critical to Kath's success is her continued involvement in classroom teaching. Whether it is to demonstrate techniques, coach teachers or build her own repertoire of practices, Kath is committed to regular and ongoing work with students. Her classroom work and research feeds a dynamic and ever-evolving expertise in the area of integrative and inquiry-based learning. Kath's professional development offerings are diverse. They range from intensive partnerships with schools to develop inquiry programs and practices over several years through to one-day workshops for beginning or experienced inquiry teachers. Whether in her home town of Melbourne or on the other side of the world, working with a team or speaking to a packed auditorium Kath's style is refreshingly practical, inclusive and always connected to the real world of teaching. |
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| Dr. Ron Ritchhart | |||||||||
| Ron Ritchhart, Ed.D., is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero where his work focuses on the development of school and classroom culture as prime vehicles for developing students’ as powerful thinkers and learners. Ron's research and writings have informed the work of schools, school systems, and museums throughout the world. His research is largely classroom based, learning from the best practice of teachers to better understand how they create conditions for powerful learning. Ron is an award-winning teacher and researcher, a sought-after speaker, and a prolific and influential writer. His best-selling books include Intellectual Character, Making Thinking Visible, and Creating Cultures of Thinking, and The Power of Making Thinking Visible. Ron began his career in education as elementary teacher in New Zealand before returning to the states where he taught art, third, and fourth grade as well as middle school mathematics. | |||||||||
| MARK CHURCH | |||||||||
| Mark Church works with schools throughout the world wishing to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms. He believes in the difference teachers can make for students when they strive to make thinking visible, valued, and actively promoted as part of the day-to-day experience of their learners. Mark encourages teachers to become students of their students, and more broadly, students of themselves and the choices they make to leverage the power of making thinking visible. He is currently a consultant with Harvard Project Zero's Making Thinking Visible and Cultures of Thinking initiatives, drawing upon his own classroom teaching experience and from the perspectives he has gained working with educators throughout the world. Together with Ron Ritchhart, Mark is co-author of the book Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners (Jossey-Bass, 2020). | |||||||||
| WEBINAR DATE: 24th April 2021 TIME Zurich 6:00 am | Dubai 8:00 am | India 9:30 am | Hong Kong 12:00 pm | Melbourne 2:00 pm Corresponds with PDT 9:00 pm on the 23rd of April 2021 This session will be recorded and you can watch the session after the workshop on our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWAG_In0X5_Mz83t2UxnhA |
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| Please register with the link below. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdu6orjgqH9YfDnBwW1A2lujoaGcwwJhA |
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