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Janet is a lecturer in Educational Leadership and Management, at the University of Bath.  For many years, she has been interested in parents’ engagement with their children’s learning; she has written and spoken on this widely.  She has worked with individual schools, local authorities, charities and larger bodies.   Her newest book, with Dr Kathy Weston, will be published by Bloomsbury in November:  100 Tips for Primary Teachers: Parental Engagement.

Joy has worked as a teacher, trainer, and parent educator in various schools and corporate settings for over 20 years. Her experience teaching in both public and private schools, training managers in large companies and running an educational non-profit organization has helped her understand the unique needs of culturally, ethnically and socially diverse groups. 

Steve Francis CSP is a leading educator, author and professional speaker. Steve is the author of four books including “First Semester CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU!”, “Time Management For Teachers”, “A Gr8 Life Live It Now!” and his latest book, co-written with Bruce Sullivan – “Attitude is Everything”.

Biography: Human by Chance. HumanE by Design Session Description: Today, student success requires skills for collaboration, creativity, compassion, and problem solving. There is an urgent need to prepare our young people to both navigate an unknown and complex future and believe they have the skills to shape a more desirable, sustainable future. To meet this need, it is even more imperative that teachers tap into their own creativity and build this same belief in their own capacity to develop and drive change within education. Design thinking is one of the ways we can address this need. It asserts that new and better things are possible and that each of us can make change happen if we cultivate a human-centered, collaborative and optimistic mindset.

:السيرة الشخصية المهندس ناصر المغيصيب مدير إدارة إستراتيجيّات التّطوع في اللجنة العليا للمشاريع والإرث، ناشط اجتماعي في المجتمع القطري، حاصل على بكالوريوس في الهندسة من أستراليا والماجستير التنفيذي في الإدارة من مؤسسة قطر. قام بإعداد وإدارة وتأسيس مجموعة من المبادرات والأنشطة والمشاريع المجتمعيّة والإنسانيّة على المستوى المحلي والخارجي منها: ( طموح للتنميّة المجتمعيّة ، رحماء للعمل الإنساني التنموي ) في قطر، مَثّلَ العديد من المؤسسات الحكوميّة والخاصة في عدة مؤتمرات وفعاليّات ولقاءات إعلامية داخل قطر وخارجها. خدمة المجتمع طريقي للتّعلم وصف الجلسة: خلال هذه الجلسة سنتعرف على مفهوم التّعلم المُكتسب من الخدمة المجتمعيّة بجميع أنواعها، والذي يعتبر شكل من أشكال التعلّم التّجريبي والخدمي للمساهمة في دمج الدراسة الأكاديميّة مع أنشطة خدمة المجتمع التفاعلية الهادفة، وجعل الخدمة والعمل جزءًا لا يتجزأ من مكونات عملية التّعلم الضرورية لإعداد الأجيال القادمة ومعالجة الاحتياجات المجتمعيّة والبيئية والاجتماعية محليًا وعالميًا. سنقدم مجموعة من المفاهيم الرئيسة المتعلقة بالخدمة المجتمعيّة وسنركز من خلالها على مفهومي التطوع والعطاء كأحد أهم اوجه المساهمات لخدمة المجتمع.

Biography: Cathryn Berger Kaye travels throughout the United States and globally, providing professional and organizational development programs, conference keynotes, in-depth institutes, and tailored education and learning resources. Her expertise spans service learning, 21st century competencies, social and emotional learning, climate and culture, youth engagement and leadership, effective teacher strategies, and environmental sustainability, all towards infusing social justice into the mainstream of education. Her work exemplifies best teaching practices. Moving from Ideas to Action: Why Service-Learning Matters Session Description: Activating youth to improve the world – locally and globally: this is what we can do, together. We are more connected than ever. These last years have brought community needs to the forefront. Our students care, and they want to be participants and catalysts for change. With service learning as a reliable pathway, we can link academics to meaningful inquiry that provokes curiosity, discovery and inspires purposeful action. By also connecting to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we can see how what happens within our classrooms connects youth to problem