Keynote themes
A keynote can do more than deliver ideas. It can help a community see itself differently, recover a deeper sense of purpose, and begin a conversation that continues after the room clears.
Democratizing Education: Co-Designing with the Young People
What becomes possible when young people help shape the learning environments and futures they will inhabit?
Big Change, Starts Small
How meaningful transformation begins through visible, human-scale moves that communities can learn from and build upon.
Designing High-Quality Projects
How to create learning that asks young people to investigate, make, revise, and contribute work that matters.
Liberatory Project Based Learning
Project-based learning as a practice of dignity, agency, shared inquiry, and freedom.
Hands, Hearts, and Minds: Innovative Education
An invitation to design learning that joins intellectual rigor with human connection, creativity, and purpose.
Equity Stances for Liberation
How the stances educators take shape power, possibility, belonging, and participation.
Schools as Civic Infrastructure of Democracy
How schools cultivate the habits, relationships, and capacities required for democratic life.
Learning for the Common Good
What education becomes when it prepares young people not only for individual success, but for contribution to a shared world.
What AI Can't Optimize
The irreducibly human dimensions of learning—belonging, judgment, care, imagination, and meaning—in an age of artificial intelligence.