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Toddle in partnership with The Principal’s Desk presents

Leading With AI

The School Leader's Playbook for Innovation and Impact

3-Part, Virtual LIVE series on Nov 9, 16 and 30

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Meet our speakers

Jay McTighe
Author, Consultant and Co-creator of UbD Framework
Dr. John Spencer
PBL Educator, Author, and Professor
Tony Frontier
Ph.D - Award-winning Educator, Author, and Consultant
Dr. Catlin Tucker
Leading Blended Learning Expert, Author, and Public Speaker
Dr. David Franklin
Founder, The Principal’s Desk
Cindy Blackburn
Director of Learning & Engagement, Toddle
Deepanshu Arora
CEO, Toddle

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Jay McTighe

Jay McTighe is a veteran educator, having served as a teacher, resource specialist, program coordinator, and director of a state program for gifted students. He is an accomplished author, having co-authored 18 books, including the award-winning and best-selling Understanding by Design series with Grant Wiggins. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. Jay has also written more than 50 book chapters, articles and blogs, and been published in leading journals, including Educational Leadership (ASCD), Edutopia and Education Week.

Jay has an extensive background in professional development and is a regular speaker at state, national and international conferences and workshops. He has made presentations in 47 states within the United States, in 7 Canadian provinces, and internationally in 38 countries on six continents.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
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Dr. Catlin Tucker

Dr. Catlin Tucker is a bestselling author, international trainer, and keynote speaker. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years. Catlin earned her doctorate in learning technologies from Pepperdine University. Currently, Catlin works as a blended learning coach, education consultant, and professor in the Masters of Arts in Teaching program at Pepperdine University.

Catlin has written a series of bestselling books on blended learning, which include The Shift to Student-led, The Complete Guide to Blended Learning, UDL and Blended Learning, and Balance With Blended Learning. She is active on X @Catlin_Tucker and Instagram @CatlinTucker and writes an internationally-ranked blog at CatlinTucker.com.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
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Tony Frontier

Tony Frontier, PhD is an award-winning educator who works with teachers and school leaders nationally and internationally to help them prioritize efforts to improve student learning. With expertise in classroom assessment, student engagement, curriculum development, effective instruction, meaningful feedback, and strategic planning, Frontier emphasizes a systems approach to build capacity to empower leaders and teachers to serve others. His most recent book, Teaching With Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More (ASCD, 2021), helps teachers prioritize and align standards and assessment to instruction and feedback that supports each students’ efforts to learn.

Frontier is also co-author of the ASCD books Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School with Jim Rickabaugh, Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching with Bob Marzano and David Livingston, and Making Teachers Better not Bitter: Balancing Teacher Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth with Paul Mielke. He is also co-author of Corwin’sCreating Passionate Learners: Engaging Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s World with Kim Brown and Don Viegut. Frontier is a frequent contributor to the flagship journal Educational Leadership, his most recent articles include, “How to Provide Better Feedback Through Rubrics” with Jay McTighe, (March, 2022) and "A Transformative Approach to AI", (June, 2023). His books have been translated and published in Korean, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
Back
Dr. John Spencer

John Spencer is a former middle school teacher and current college professor who believes teachers are the key to inspiring creativity and wonder in students. He is the co-author of Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student, Empower: What Happens When Students Own the Learning, Vintage Innovation: Leveraging Retro Tools and Classic Ideas to Design Deeper Learning Experiences, and The A.I. Roadmap: Human Learning in the Age of Smart Machines. In 2013, he spoke at the White House, sharing a vision for how to empower students to be future-ready through creativity and design thinking.

Transforming school leadership with AI

Join John Spencer in an insightful keynote designed to give school leaders like you practical ways to transform your leadership using AI.

Explore how you can harness AI to empower your teaching teams with innovative tools and platforms. Discover how AI can elevate collaboration, drive professional development, and enable data-based decisions among educators.

In this session you will learn how to use AI to:

  • Streamline your administrative tasks and save time
  • Support targeted student interventions and personalise learning
  • Improve engagement with students and families
  • Impact student success
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Cindy Blackburn

Cindy has a Masters of Education in Teacher Leadership and has worked as an PYP educator and coordinator internationally for the past ten years. She currently works as the Director of learning and engagement at Toddle and specializes in developing resources to support teachers and leaders in honing their practice and understandings, to make the PYP simple, actionable, and above all else, joyous.

The definitive guide to becoming an AI leader

Join Cindy Blackburn for a masterclass designed to equip school leaders like you with everything you need to meaningfully use AI.

Discover practical strategies and tools that will simplify your work and optimize day-to-day tasks. Gain access to a toolkit of resources that can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow and used to equip your teaching teams for an AI future. Take away the conviction to field questions from your school community and level-up your leadership practice using AI.

In this masterclass you will:

  • Learn the comprehensive what, why, and how of AI
  • Learn how to better manage your time and tasks
  • Know the questions to ask when adopting new tools individually or as a school
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Deepanshu Arora

Deepanshu is the Co-founder and CEO of Toddle. An engineer by background and an educator by passion, he believes that technology in education has only one role to play - that of making teachers’ lives easier by helping them do better what they do best. Deepanshu also leads Toddler’s Den, a network of Reggio Inspired Preschools in India. Prior to this, he worked with McKinsey & Company and studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
Back
Dr. David Franklin

Dr. David Franklin is an award winning school administrator, education professor, curriculum designer, and presenter. He earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from California State University, East Bay, a Master’s Degree in Education Technology from National University, and holds a B.A. in Music from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Franklin is an Education Consultant and an Adjunct Professor of Education for Colorado State University. He is also a Marzano Research fellow trained in High Reliability Schools, Instructional Rounds, Collaborative Teams, and PLCs. Dr. Franklin has presented at national and international education conferences and is a sought after presenter in the areas of academic intervention, school leadership, creating a shared vision, creating common assessments, and data analysis.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
Transforming school leadership with AI

Join John Spencer in an insightful keynote designed to give school leaders like you practical ways to transform your leadership using AI.

Explore how you can harness AI to empower your teaching teams with innovative tools and platforms. Discover how AI can elevate collaboration, drive professional development, and enable data-based decisions among educators.

In this session you will learn how to use AI to:

  • Streamline your administrative tasks and save time
  • Support targeted student interventions and personalise learning
  • Improve engagement with students and families
  • Impact student success
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Sarah Phillips

Sarah has been part of the IB community for over 15 years, serving in a variety of capacities including MYP coordiantor and Senior Curriculum Manager for the MYP at the IB GLobal Centre in the Hague. She is now the DIrector of Learning and Engagement for MYP at Toddle.

The definitive guide to becoming an AI leader

Join Cindy Blackburn for a masterclass designed to equip school leaders like you with everything you need to meaningfully use AI.

Discover practical strategies and tools that will simplify your work and optimize day-to-day tasks. Gain access to a toolkit of resources that can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow and used to equip your teaching teams for an AI future. Take away the conviction to field questions from your school community and level-up your leadership practice using AI.

In this masterclass you will:

  • Learn the comprehensive what, why, and how of AI
  • Learn how to better manage your time and tasks
  • Know the questions to ask when adopting new tools individually or as a school

A deep-dive into the ultimate AI playbook for progressive school leaders

Panel Discussion
Lessen your leadership load with AI
November 9th | Time: 4-5 PM PT

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully

Get your invite
Keynote Session
Transforming school leadership with AI
November 16th | Time: 3-4 PM PT

Join John Spencer in an insightful keynote designed to give school leaders like you practical ways to transform your leadership using AI.

Explore how you can harness AI to empower your teaching teams with innovative tools and platforms. Discover how AI can elevate collaboration, drive professional development, and enable data-based decisions among educators.

In this session you will learn how to use AI to:

  • Streamline your administrative tasks and save time
  • Support targeted student interventions and personalise learning
  • Improve engagement with students and families
  • Impact student success
Get your invite
Masterclass
The definitive guide to becoming an AI leader
November 30th | Time: 3-4 PM PT

Join Cindy Blackburn for a masterclass designed to equip school leaders like you with everything you need to meaningfully use AI.

Discover practical strategies and tools that will simplify your work and optimise day-to-day tasks. Gain access to a toolkit of resources that can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow and used to equip your teaching teams for an AI future. Take away the conviction to field questions from your school community and level-up your leadership practice using AI.

In this masterclass you will:

  • Learn the comprehensive what, why, and how of AI
  • Learn how to better manage your time and tasks
  • Know the questions to ask when adopting new tools individually or as a school
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Why attend

Connect

With the diverse perspectives of leaders who have harnessed the power of AI and its exponential benefits.

Learn

How AI can be a powerful tool for lessening your workload, empowering teaching teams, and streamlining administrative tasks.

Transform

Your leadership skills with actionable strategies and a toolbox of ideas from leaders who have implemented AI in their settings.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This 3-part series is entirely free of charge! As a progressive school leader, understanding the potential of AI in education can hugely impact your team, your students, your school, and above all else - you! This is our way of helping you stay ahead of the curve.

Add Leading With AI: The School Leader's Playbook for Innovation and Impact to your calendar, and ensure you block all three dates of the series - November 9th, 16th and 30th. Now, sit back and get excited! We will send you access to session links closer to the event days.

Yes, we strongly encourage you to attend all three sessions! We have designed the event as a 3-part LIVE series in continuum that comprehensively unpacks the potential, benefits and adaptability of AI for progressive schools.

Most sessions will be recorded and available on this webpage after the event. Some sessions might not be recorded at speaker request to ensure protection of intellectual property rights.

Participants who attend all three sessions of Leading With AI: The School Leader's Playbook for Innovation and Impact will be provided with certificates of attendance from Toddle.

Leading With AI: The School Leader's Playbook for Innovation and Impact is hosted by Toddle in partnership with The Principal’s Desk. Toddle is an all-in-one teaching & learning platform used by 1500+ IB and other progressive schools worldwide. We empower teaching teams to work together and better!





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