Looking for Collaborators on Gap Years, Family Sabbaticals, and Global News Literacy

I want to do three special two-hour mini-events within this year's Global Education Conference (November 18 - 20) and I'm looking for collaborators. If you're open to participating, presenting, or helping me figure out how to structure these topics, please email me at steve@learningrevolution.com.

1. Gap Years. I'm a big fan of gap years, and have one daughter who took one before college. I'd love to focus on the different ways gap years are promoted and accepted in different countries/cultures, what resources are available for students and parents thinking about a gap year, and what good advice is (and where you'd find it).

2. Family Sabbaticals. Somewhat related to gap years, but more focused on families that choose to do some form of travel/study and take time off to do so. I'm looking for specific examples as well as resources and ideas for those who want to take a "family sabbatical."

3. Finding Truth: Global Information, News, and Media Literacy. We are supposed to be living in an era of unlimited information, but we also are discovering the degree to which propaganda, disinformation, manipulation, and fake news are very real forms of communication and even control. How do we sort through the news to try and determine what is true and what is false, what the competing agendas are, how to respect the complexity of particular issues, and why there are differing viewpoints on important topics? What are good cognitive, media, and educational frameworks for learning about and understanding what is going on in the world? What do we understand about why and how information is created, consumed, and controlled; and what are appropriate ways to teach students about this? And finally, what are the ways for the global education community to make a difference in respectful and intelligent dialog around the events of our time?

If any one of these three topics interests you enough to want to help with creating or participating in these mini-events, please let me know!

Best,

Steve

Steve Hargadon
Co-Chair, GEC
steve@learningrevolution.com

Teaching Parents and Students the Secrets of High School Success - Workshops

Change a student's educational success and you will change his or her life forever. Outside of family, the high school experience is the number one influence on a young adult's success or failure in college and then in the work world.

In my workshops, I show parents and students how to succeed in school, based on advice that hundreds of teachers have contributed to help create this material. Even just one of the ideas I talk about could make a huge difference for a student and his or her family.

By the end of a "Game of School" workshop, parents and students will...

• Learn how to take all that time spent in school and shape it to a student's unique strengths, so he or she has the confidence to really win at school and at life;
• Avoid the typical parent-child struggles around school and homework, so parents can strengthen and truly enjoy their relationship with their teen;
• Figure out how to help a child who hates school, so parents are not so worried;
• Review the basic classroom and study skills for doing well on class assignments, tests, and homework, so day-to-day school life for a student is easier;
• Uncover the basic, intermediate, advanced, and "master" techniques that the top students use for school success, so that parents and students feel in complete control of the learning process;
• Discover the "Four Levels of Learning," so parents can partner with their student to build a solid game plan for his or her high school and college years;

​This is a program that is designed to allow parents and students to attend together, but can also be very helpful for either alone, and even for teachers and librarians wanting to help students. Attendees get a PDF version of the presentation slides and a workbook.
In addition,  I also cover:

• Understanding how public schools actually work, so parents know how to get the best for their student and not feel like a victim of the system;
• Helping teens build strong relationships with teachers, staff, and administrators, so they have a devoted "team" determined to help them get through school and then into a great college or university;
• Identifying the practical skills that schools don't teach, so a student learns how to manage money, pay bills, and be a capable adult;
• Finding out what the best homeschooling practices are and how parents can incorporate them into their family life, so students can become life-long learners;
• Building a home-centered, school-supported model for learning in families, giving parents and teens a lifetime vision of success in life.

The long-term costs of a student not feeling confident about school are way too high and not necessary. I hope you'll allow me to help. Email me for information on coming to to talk at your school, library, or parent group, or click here for the online webinar.

Steve

Steve Hargadon
steve@learningrevolution.com
https://www.stevehargadon.com
@stevehargadon

About Your Host - Steve Hargadon

Steve Hargadon created one of the first modern social networks for teachers, Classroom 2.0, and runs large online conferences for teachers and librarians. His father was Dean of Admissions at Princeton and Stanford, and Chairman of The College Board. He has done contract work, consulted with, or served on advisory boards for Acer, Adobe, Blackboard, CoSN, Horizon Project / New Media Consortium (NMC), Instructure, Intel, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, MERLOT, Microsoft, Mightybell, NAMLE, Ning, PBS, Promethean, Speak Up / Project Tomorrow, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. State Department, and others, typically focusing on educational technology and social networking. Steve and his wife have four children and five grandchildren.

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter

"Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education."-Bernard Bull

"Steve is one of the most influential yet understated individuals in the world of Education. He gives thought leaders a widely attended global platform to voice their ideas to transform Education, and he does so with tremendous respect and intelligence."-Charles Fadel

"Steve is the Oprah of education."-Monika Hardy's Students

"Steve is the 'white knight' of education reform."-Michelle Cordy

"Steve Hargadon is one of the most important change-makers of our time!"-Connie Weber