Opening Keynotes
Aaron Moniz
Co-Director Inspire Citizens
Empathy to Impact:
Make Curriculum Matter
Bian Li
Founder, Puzzlemaster, The Hungry Lab
TEDx speaker
Future Proofing: Educational, entrepreneurial and ecosystem foundations for a future
Steve Sostak
Co-Director Inspire Citizens
Inspire Citizens’ Global Impact Schools & Student Impact Profile:
The WHY before the WILL
Closing Keynotes
Songqiao Yao
Wildbound Director & Climate Change Researcher
Student & Citizens’ Climate Scientists in Nepal, Greenland, & Antarctica
Dr. Todd Brown
Director, The Inspire Project US & Operation Outbreak
Problem-Based Simulations to Help Solve Global Health Epidemics
Morning Interactive Workshops
Building Unity:
Global Competence Frameworks, Tools, Thinking
75-minute sessions, both days
Connie Rensink
Design Thinking & the UN SDGS
A Match Made in Project-Based Heaven
Christina Lin
Inspire Citizens’ Student Intern & President
Talent + SDG Target = Vocation
Open the Door to Any Calling: Personal Project, Gr 5 PYP Exhibition, or Life’s Work
Matthew Yamatin
Decoding Sustainability
Making Operations & Management of Schools
the “Living Labs” for Sustainability
Steve Sostak
Inspire Citizens’ Co-director
Student Leadership: Inspire Citizens’ Toolkit
17 Skills for 17 Goals
Kavita Tanna
Inspire Citizens’ Workshop Facilitator
The Compass Education Model of Sustainability: Accelerate Progress in Thinking Sustainably Throughout Schools
Aaron Moniz
Inspire Citizens’ Co-director
Empathy to Impact: Unit & Lesson Planning Deep Dive
Bryan Coogan
Co-director Seoul Foreign School Voice Lab
Resources, Skills & Tools in Launching a
Global Youth Media Member Station
Laura Flaxman, Ed.L.D.
Pivot Learning
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Afternoon Interactive Workshops (both days)
Deep Partnerships for the Goals
75-minute sessions, both days
Dr. Todd Brown
Director, The Inspire Project US
& Operation Outbreak (O2)
Join the O2 cohort: Student learning through outbreak response & containment from the perspective of public health & governance
Brian Reverman
Director, Mountains Art Education Group
Sparking Student Voice with Artists in Residence
Natalie Chan
OWN Academy Founder
Opportunities to combine student interest with corporate responsibility to create entrepreneurism and problem-solving
He Shan
The Nature Conservancy
Sponge city and water quality initiatives in China and the Shenzhen urban environment
Bian Li
Founder, Puzzlemaster, The Hungry Lab
Digging Deeper into Future Proofing: Educational, entrepreneurial and ecosystem foundations for a future
Natalie Bennet
Zero Waste Advocate
Student-Centered PBL & Event Planning for Responsible Consumption & Production
Songqiao Yao
Director of Wildbound & Climate Change Researcher
Getting Student Scientists on the Ground in Solving the Climate Crisis
2030 SDGs Game
The 2030 SDGs Game is a multiplayer, in-person, card-based game that simulates taking the “real world” into the year 2030.
Intimate, Interactive, Innovative Teacher Breakouts
90-minute sessions, day 1
September 13
Overcoming Stereotypes:
Gender Equality in Early Childhood Classrooms
Inez Suanes & Shardea Brown
Early Childhood Teacher
Beijing City International School
Shekou Strings Initiative:
Students providing music education to migrant children living at a factory in Shenzhen
Vanessa Coetzee & SIS Students
Shekou International School
Project IMPACT! Student-centred, transformative, project-based learning:
Using Global Competence and SDGs to drive student-led learning for change
Rae Merrigan & Jordan Bowman
Health & Social Studies teachers, Project IMPACT facilitators
Jakarta Intercultural School
Using a co-curricular approach to support meaningful student initiatives & outcomes in the DP CAS program
Alex Moffatt & Charles Tetrault
Shekou International School
Embedding Art Education that Changes the World
Brian Reverman
Director, Mountains Art Education Group
90-minute sessions, day 2
September 14
Level Up Business & Social Entrepreneurship with 169 SDG Targets
Ellie Flesher
Business Management, Theory of Knowledge & Projects Mentor
Beijing City International School
Student Leaders Collecting Data on a School’s Plastic Consumption:
Creating ways to share & to inspire meaningful changes to use & behaviors
Russell Williams & SIS Students
Shekou International School
Embedding Sustainable Thinking & Service Learning into Physical & Health Education
Cal Stuart
Physical & Health Education director
Seoul Foreign School
Amplifying Student Voice through Podcasting;
The story of #SWISrocRadio
Eugene Leonard
ShenWai International School
Early Childhood Edu and SDGs:
Play-based Learning as a Foundation for Sustainable Development and Global Competence
Lily Chang
Shanghai, China Early Childhood Specialist
Empowering Teachers and Students for Campus-Focused, Problem-Based Learning:
Compass Education School Sustainability Self-Assessment
David Freeman
Inspire Citizens’ Director of Global Literacy Inspire Centers
Vice President of Education Strategy, Three W Education International