The Problem With Rock Tumblers
Why Our Education System is in Urgent Crisis (and How to Fix It)
Format: Keynote for School Administrators and School District Leadership/Staff
Length: 60 minutes
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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:
- Regina Public School Teachers Association
- Québec School Board
- Nova Scotia School Board Assn
- Council of U.S. Chief State School Officers
- School District #72 Campbell River
- Virtual School Society (“Innovations in Online Learning”)
- Vancouver School Board
- Calgary Teachers Association
- North Central Teachers Assn
- Alberta Teachers Association
- E-Learning Guild USA
- B.C. Teachers Federation
- BC Alternate Education Association
- B.C. Centre for International Education
- Canadian Association of Communicators in Education
- …and more!
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