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Talks

Working sessions on learning systems, curriculum architecture, and the structures that hold schools together.


Upcoming

How Might We Tell Beautiful Stories of Impact?

Transforming Program Evaluation into Empowerment

Five interconnected impact domains. Evaluation as participatory meaning-making, not extractive reporting. Beautiful storytelling strengthens rather than softens accountability.

60 minutes Lead to Succeed
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The Evidence Foundry

Reducing Cognitive Load While Deepening Organizational Learning

What if your coaching program could learn from itself? Lightweight scaffolds for capture, AI for pattern synthesis, humans freed for the conversations that matter most.

9th China Festival of Education · 45 minutes · Coach Mastery Studio

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Standards Into Systems & Living Plans

Connected Architecture for Professional Learning

Two companion sessions at the AI and Future of Education conference. Session 1: how AI can hold the epistemic standard so planning teams focus on judgment. Session 2: a live participatory consultation where the audience experiences three-layer governance in real time.

2 × 60 minutes Live platform walkthrough School leaders & PL coordinators

The extended version of these sessions — a ten-chapter video essay going deep on the thinking underneath the architecture.

10 chapters · 66 minutes · Fourteen frameworks, one architecture

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What Makes a Masterful Coach?

Decoding Excellence Through Competency Mapping

How do we name coaching mastery without reducing it? A competency mapping session that positions coaching as a professional discipline with its own developmental trajectory.

60 minutes Festival of Education Thailand
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Framework to Impact

Engineering a School-Wide Coaching Programme

From isolated coaching relationships to systemic infrastructure. How SAS designed a coaching program that generates its own evidence and improves as it scales.

60 minutes Festival of Education Thailand
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