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Where the Hell is Matt?: Community Through Bad Dance
Speaker: Matt Harding
Matt Harding, charts the growth of an of his big idea: dancing in the style of local communities to illustrate a world without fear.
 
Green Bronx Machine: Education as an Opportunity to Grow
Speaker: Stephen Ritz
Stephen Ritz talks about seeding change by teaching his students how to grow, feed, build sustainably, and transform mindsets and...
 
Cracking the Code: Bringing Technology to Girls of Color
Speaker: Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant, Founder of Black Girls Code, explains how her organization is changing the face of education by teaching computer...
 
Caine's Arcade: Transforming a Moment into a Movement
Speaker: Nirvan Mullick
Nirvan Mullick discusses his short film "Caine's Arcade" and how one boy's imagination transformed a moment of...
 
MoveOn.org Founder on Movement Building
Speaker: Joan Blades
Founder of MoveOn.org, talks about the lessons talk includes lessons in movement building, such as staying persistent and listening in...
 
Occupy EdTech: A Design Challenge
Speaker: Khalid Smith
Khalid Smith, Education Leader at Startup Weekend, talks about the process of uniting educators with designers and entrepreneurs and --...
 
What Studying the Brain Tells Us About Arts Education
Speaker: George Lakoff
George Lakoff, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at U.C. Berkeley, emphasizes that the bridge between existing...
 
At the Nexus of Art History & Education Reform
Co-founders of Smarthistory, demystify traditional representations of images, widen access to art, and use technology to reform art history...
 
Creating the Conditions for Participatory Learning
Speaker: Karen Cator
Karen Cator stresses the importance of creating the conditions for participatory learning, including the adoption of evolved digital-age...
 
Scaling Education: A Movement Improving Schools Citywide
Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey, President of Say Yes to Education, Inc., talks about creating structures that allow for educational innovations to...
 
MusicianCorps: Making a Civic Music Movement
Speaker: Kiff Gallagher
Kiff Gallagher explains how his organization MusicianCorps works as an "operating system" for a field of fragmented artists, and...
 
THE 99: Comics at the Crossroads of Interfaith Dialogue
Speaker: Naif Al-Mutawa
Naif Al-Mutawa, CEO of THE 99, fosters interfaith dialogue through a comic series that features Muslim characters and culture.
 
As We Test Education Models, We Test Ourselves
Speaker: William Brown
William Brown, Director of the Eli Whitney Museum, explains how teachers can use innovation, non-tradtional education models to bring out...
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