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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.