Teaching Speakers

President and CEO at Resiliency Inc.

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Educator & Founder of LiberatED

Author & Educator; Innovative Teaching, Learning and Leadership Consultant

Co-Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions & Post-Conviction Lawyer featured on Netflix's "Making a Murderer"

Educator & Author of "The Book Whisperer" and "Reading in the Wild"

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Education Advocate, Author & Strategist; Speaker on Innovation, Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy

Science Teacher, Enthusiast & Author

Founder of the Tinkering School & Brightworks School; Author of "50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do"

Former Executive Director of the George Lucas Education Foundation; Author of "Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools"

Artist , Fashion Designer & Professor; Contestant on Season 12 of "Project Runway"

CEO of Learning Policy Institute & Founder of the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Leader of President Obama’s Education Policy Transition Team

Senior Research Fellow on Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, Child Education Specialist

Fellow, Lumina Foundation; Former President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Motivational Speaker for At-risk Youth; Authority on Development & Empowerment

Award-winning Educator and Instructional Innovation Specialist Redefining the Purpose of School

International Speaker on Leadership, Communication, Motivation, Relationship-Based Selling, Diversity & Inclusion.

Professor of Economics & Executive Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

President of Silver Strong & Associates and Author of "The Core Six"