The Problem With Rock Tumblers
Why Our Education System is in Urgent Crisis (and How to Fix It)
The “system” means well, but it’s slowly asphyxiating the future of education.
In this provocative keynote address, Tod Maffin identifies the primary ways the education system is taking the “rough stones” of learners and tries to grind and polish their way to education — while actually scraping away the culture and uniqueness the learners bring.
Maffin’s five steps to repairing this damage will get your conference delegates talking days after the address.
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What They Say:
Verbatim comments from session evaluation forms, Calgary Teachers’ Convention, February 2008:
- “Provocative, stimulating, new information — wow. Excellent!”
- “Applicable to my current teaching situation.”
- “Excellent seminar — for parents and teachers alike — one all teachers should have attended!”
- “Brilliant, engaging, stimulating!”
- “Entertaining, informatice, engaging, humourous, and most of all personal!”
- “Does he do full-day sessions? Could we bring Tod in next year on a common PD day? Get him back!”
A sampling of Tod’s clients in just the last 18 months:
- VHA Leadership Conference, Philadelphia
- B.C. Public School Employers Association
- Simon Fraser University
- Association of Administrators of English Schools of Quebec
- The Virtual School Society
- E-Learning Consortium, Florida
- Conference Board of Canada
- B.C. Teachers’ Federation
- Calgary City Teachers’ Convention Association (10,000+ attendees!)
- …and more!
