Wednesday, March 31
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
EDT
Room 1

Becoming and Being a Teacher, Post-COVID

Keynote ID: 58946
  1. Rushton Hurley
    Next Vista for Learning

Abstract: That the world has changed is not news. That our work has changed over the last year is another masterpiece of understatement. The question before us now, though, is what we and our schools will do with what we have learned about our work and our students in the world of the coming year. Where should we devote our time? What technologies will matter for the medium to long term? How can we better prepare teacher candidates for challenges new and ongoing? In this talk, we’ll begin to address these questions and tap our talents to try taking teachers to new levels. Biography: Rushton Hurley is the founder and executive director of Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of videos by and for teachers and students at NextVista.org. Rushton has spent decades exploring innovative possibilities for bringing together proven approaches with cutting-edge technologies, from his graduate research at Stanford University (using speech recognition technology with beginning students of Japanese in computer-based role-playing scenarios for developing language skills), to his work with teenagers as both a high school teacher of Japanese language and a principal of an online school, to speaking at conferences and trainings around the world, to 2017’s 5-Day Teacher Challenge, which over 2000 teachers in 40 countries signed up to try. The author of three books about school and teacher improvement (Making Your School Something Special and Making Your Teaching Something Special, both from DBC Books, and Technology, Teamwork, & Excellence, from NCEA), Rushton also has spoken to over 100,000 teachers in the last decade. With the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, he has revised and run the MERIT Program (Making Education Relevant through Innovative Teaching), and is designing new programs to help exceptional teachers share their talents and insights globally. With experience at a wide variety of schools around the world (elementary, secondary, and college; large and small; urban and rural; traditional public, public charter, private independent, and schools of faith), Rushton regularly works with school leaders on professional development, school improvement, change strategies, staff morale, promotion in the community, online technologies, and getting the best out of students and teachers. He loves to travel, makes occasionally successful attempts to take a good picture, cleans up after his cats, and considers himself to have married up.

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