Innovation Festival

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Celebrate Create Innovate - join us for our first Innovation Festival: an exciting, dynamic learning environment for education professionals.

Book your space at our FREE Innovation Festival and find out:

• about new technologies and software that can reduce teacher workloads, save on budget and significantly increase learning outcomes for pupils

• how a former head teacher can increase school SAT attainment scores from 9% to 60% in just one academic year through an easy-to-implement peer review blogging system

• how to cultivate pupil health and wellbeing resulting in better performing and more engaged pupils

Confirmed speakers:

•Tim Buckle, Chimp Management - a proven and successful mind management model, The Chimp Model, helps both pupils and professionals become happier, healthier, more confident and successful. Based on the 3 teams in the brain: You (The Human), The Chimp and The Computer.

•Dr Alison Clark-Wilson, UCL Institute of Education - leads the research programme for the UCL EDUCATE project, which aims to build better educational technology. The EDUCATE for Schools pilot will be introduced, which aims to encourage more critical uses of edtech in ways that can also save precious human and financial resources

•Michael Forshaw, Edtech Impact - a free independent school-led marketplace that provides a candid view on which tools are performing well. The impact and future of edtech will be discussed, and the Edtech Impact Platform will be introduced allowing schools trial and feedback about Edtech software.

•Deputy Mitchell - a former Headteacher, now an Educational Consultant and blogger, with a proven improved attainment of SATS in writing (from 9% in July 2009 to 60% in July 2010) by encouraging pupils to write and publish blogs.

•Alice Little and Tom Thacker, Century Tech - an award-winning teaching and learning platform for primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. Providing an exploration into AI software for use in schools, proven to significantly increase learning outcomes and reduce teacher workloads

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Workshops from speakers will also run throughout the day as well as sessions by our own in house experts.

Alternatively, take part in a maths Hackaton with the University of Teesside, or take some time to enjoy a samba drumming workshop or have a mini MOT...the choice is yours!

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