An Evening with Thom Markham - PBL Expert // Gold Coast
Event description
In 2030, the youngest of our students in schools will be graduating.
What will our system look like when they are ready to be young leaders?
The E30 was established in 2018 by Fiona Hutton with the view of supporting the educators who will lead transformative practices and organisations in education in 2030.
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About Thom Markham PhD
As a PBL pioneer, thought leader, psychologist, global educator, and founder of PBL Global, Thom blends inquiry, positive psychology, creativity, wellbeing, and 21st century skills into a strengths focused model of PBL designed to help students become flexible, resilient, purpose-driven thinkers. He has shared his expertise with over 6000 teachers and 400 schools worldwide, and now offers a breakthrough set of mobile learning experiences designed to prepare every educator to be ‘future-ready.’ Thom is the author of the Buck Institute for Education’s Handbook on Project Based Learning and the Project Based Learning Design and Coaching Guide: Expert tools for Innovation and Inquiry for K – 12 Educators, as well as Redefining Smart: Awakening Students’ Power to Reimagine Their World, which forecasts the attitudes and beliefs necessary for young people to build a positive vision for the future.
About your host, Peter Hutton
Peter is the the Co-Founder and Director of the Future Schools Alliance and for 25 years has been a school leader in four state and independent schools. His areas of expertise also include change management, student entrepreneurship, alternative tertiary pathways, supporting dyslexic students and futurism.
This is the first Future Schools Alliance event in Queensland
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