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Start Time: 11/7/2023, 04:00 PM
End Time: 11/7/2023, 05:00 PM
Tomas Eliaeson, AIA
Design Partner, Little
Tomas Jimenez-Eliaeson is the Design Principal for the Charlotte Community Practice Group, and a Partner at Little, an industry leading architecture and design firm with more than 400 professionals in six locations across the USA and China. He leads a team of architects and designers dedicated to educational, cultural and civic projects including academic institutions, cultural facilities, performing arts centers, and libraries. Tomas is a member of the AIA, NCARB, A4LE, and is a LEED Accredited professional. Originally from Spain, Tomas received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Houston and a Master Degree in Architectural Design from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ryan Welsh, PhD
Director of Innovation, Providence Day School
Ryan Welsh is the chief design strategist at Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC. In addition to teaching English, Ryan leads Providence Day’s Center for the Art & Science of Teaching, Learning, and Entrepreneurship, as well as the IDEAS@PD team, which allows him to lead and collaborate with students, faculty, and administrators K thru 12. He earned a B.A. in English and philosophy from Duke University, an M.A. in the humanities from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in curriculum & instruction from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Mike Realon
Palisades High School’s Career & Community Development Coordinator, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools - Palisades High School
Mike Realon has been serving public education as an encore career for more than 20 years. This school year Mike is helping lead the launch of the brand new Palisades High School, a CMS school in SW Charlotte who was selected by the $24 M NC Steps4Growth Program to pilot a “Green Energy & Sustainability” high school pathway. In 2010 Mike was recognized by the Microsoft Corporation as one of America’s top 10 most innovative high school educators for his work at Olympic which is immersed in employing NAF career academies as well as project-based and experiential learning to address the expanding American skills gap so more youth reach their human and economic potential while realizing upward economic & social mobility.
Mary Moss, PhD
CEO - Charlotte Lab School, Charlotte Lab School
Dr. Mary Moss is Co-Founder of Charlotte Lab School and serves as Executive Director. She is the co-author of How to Innovate: The Essential Guide for Fearless School Leaders (Columbia University Teachers College Press, March 2014) and was an elementary, middle, and high school teacher for seven years, working in NYC, Atlanta, Boston, and Fayetteville, NC. Mary then served as a principal for seven years of two technology-rich, student-centered start-up schools in the New York City Department of Education, including Mott Hall II (mott.echalk.com), a progressive one-to-one laptop middle school. As Co-Founder of the NYC iSchool www.nycischool.org NYC DOE’s pilot high school for 21st century learning and innovation, Mary specialized in the development of challenge-based curricula designed to give students the opportunity to apply 21st century skills in the context of solving real-world challenges, the development of students’ online learning skills, and designing systems to enable personalization and mastery-based individualization of the learning process.
Learning Objectives:
End Time: 11/7/2023, 05:00 PM
Elevating the Culture of Crafting to Prepare Students for the Innovation Economy: The Educators POV
Speaker Details:
Tomas Eliaeson, AIA
Design Partner, Little
Tomas Jimenez-Eliaeson is the Design Principal for the Charlotte Community Practice Group, and a Partner at Little, an industry leading architecture and design firm with more than 400 professionals in six locations across the USA and China. He leads a team of architects and designers dedicated to educational, cultural and civic projects including academic institutions, cultural facilities, performing arts centers, and libraries. Tomas is a member of the AIA, NCARB, A4LE, and is a LEED Accredited professional. Originally from Spain, Tomas received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Houston and a Master Degree in Architectural Design from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ryan Welsh, PhD
Director of Innovation, Providence Day School
Ryan Welsh is the chief design strategist at Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC. In addition to teaching English, Ryan leads Providence Day’s Center for the Art & Science of Teaching, Learning, and Entrepreneurship, as well as the IDEAS@PD team, which allows him to lead and collaborate with students, faculty, and administrators K thru 12. He earned a B.A. in English and philosophy from Duke University, an M.A. in the humanities from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in curriculum & instruction from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Mike Realon
Palisades High School’s Career & Community Development Coordinator, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools - Palisades High School
Mike Realon has been serving public education as an encore career for more than 20 years. This school year Mike is helping lead the launch of the brand new Palisades High School, a CMS school in SW Charlotte who was selected by the $24 M NC Steps4Growth Program to pilot a “Green Energy & Sustainability” high school pathway. In 2010 Mike was recognized by the Microsoft Corporation as one of America’s top 10 most innovative high school educators for his work at Olympic which is immersed in employing NAF career academies as well as project-based and experiential learning to address the expanding American skills gap so more youth reach their human and economic potential while realizing upward economic & social mobility.
Mary Moss, PhD
CEO - Charlotte Lab School, Charlotte Lab School
Dr. Mary Moss is Co-Founder of Charlotte Lab School and serves as Executive Director. She is the co-author of How to Innovate: The Essential Guide for Fearless School Leaders (Columbia University Teachers College Press, March 2014) and was an elementary, middle, and high school teacher for seven years, working in NYC, Atlanta, Boston, and Fayetteville, NC. Mary then served as a principal for seven years of two technology-rich, student-centered start-up schools in the New York City Department of Education, including Mott Hall II (mott.echalk.com), a progressive one-to-one laptop middle school. As Co-Founder of the NYC iSchool www.nycischool.org NYC DOE’s pilot high school for 21st century learning and innovation, Mary specialized in the development of challenge-based curricula designed to give students the opportunity to apply 21st century skills in the context of solving real-world challenges, the development of students’ online learning skills, and designing systems to enable personalization and mastery-based individualization of the learning process.
Learning Objectives:
- WHY – The Panel will discuss Embracing the Idea of ‘Crafting’ as a differentiator for learning for the Innovation Age
- 2. WHAT – The Panel will discuss the Culture and Environment for Making they have created in their institutions
- HOW – The Panel will discuss the Process of how they Crafted the various experiences in their institutions (Their story)
- Feedback – The Panel will discuss feedback they have heard from teachers, students, parents, administrators and impact on future ideas
Elevating the Culture of Crafting to Prepare Students for the Innovation Economy: The Educators POV
Track
EDsession (60 min)