DESCRIPTION: How can we help learners to question more deeply and do in-depth inquiry projects with greater independence?  How can we educators learn to become “Inquiry Ninjas” in the classroom through internalizing the practice of facilitation to help empower learners to make their own discoveries?

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DESCRIPTION: What are the secrets of effective questioning? How can we empower learners to question more deeply, discover their gifts, and achieve success? In this practical session, Tiffany Poirier brings out the zany tools from her “Question Toolbox” as she demonstrates how to teach questioning skills in a fun, creative, and tangible way.

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DESCRIPTION: In this session, we explore fun and surprising strategies to inspire more meaningful and productive dialogue in any classroom, kindergarten through grade 12. We will introduce the “Community of Inquiry” practice (P4C model) and how it can be used to promote engagement and deepen students’ learning in a variety of curricular areas.

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DESCRIPTION: Everyone needs a passion. Everybody needs a project—something to work towards creating or achieving; something that will challenge and showcase your thinking, talents, and skills; something that can be shared with others; something you can be proud of that you can give to the world and help you make your mark.

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DESCRIPTION: What are the strategic questions you can ask yourself and your teams to unlock brilliant new ideas and drive success forward? This session, based on my TEDx talk, goes further into how we can learn to harness and strengthen our innate power to question and how we can create safe spaces for questioning—what I like to call “Question Cultures”.

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DESCRIPTION: Brilliant leaders across multiple fields often share this one thing in common: they are storytellers able to communicate who they are and what their vision is with clarity, passion, and resonance and motivate their teams (think Martin Luther King Jr., Disney, Steve Jobs, JK Rowling, Sheryl Sandburg, etc.). Let’s learn their secrets for how to be amazing storytellers.

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DESCRIPTION: Why do some people have this magical power to light up a room and captivate audiences with their presence, while others seem to fade away into the woodwork? The secret is that charisma is a skill you can learn!

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DESCRIPTION: Imagine you own a magical “Teaching Coat” that has the power to tell the story of who you are as an educator. In this hands-on, creative session you’ll be inspired to explore your “inner teacher”, who you are, and what you believe through making your own Teaching Coat.

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DESCRIPTION: Everyone has a story—and your story could change the world! Yet people often discount their experience.  So in this session, we will explore how educational leaders can identify, craft, and share more powerful narratives to reach, teach, and inspire hearts and minds of any age.

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