Russell Cailey

This visionary session invites participants to explore how we might transform the professional education and training of teachers & educators to empower young people to be 'changemakers' via authentic project-based and place-based educational challenges. As the founding leader of THINK Global School's international Innovation and Training Centre, this speaker will discuss how to strategically reimagine the preparation of teachers to be designers, guides and evaluators of student-led, real world learning programs. Participants will be presented with a number of ideas rooted in a schooling model that champions student agency, choice, and voice. We will explore strategies for re-imagining university-based teacher education to catalyze project and place-based education in local, national and global contexts.