SATURDAY+Plenary+session+4


 * 16:30 – 17:30 || **PLENARY SESSION 4** ||
 * || **CREATING A CULTURE OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT** ||
 * || How to motivate schools to improve and create nourishing learning communities?

//Proposed speaker panel:// || · **//Helen Ladd//**//, Professor of Public Policy, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy// · **//Janice Jackson//**//, independent education consultant, USA// · **//Nick Seaver,//** //CEO, Phuket International Academy, Thailand// · **//Natasha Ridge//**//, Director of Research (Acting), Dubai School of Government, UAE// ||
 * || · **//Zenna Atkins,//** //CEO UK, Europe and Africa, GEMS, UK (moderator)//

ZENNA ATKINS' COMMENTS

HELEN LADD'S COMMENTS

JANICE JACKSON'S COMMENTS

NICK SEAVER'S COMMENTS Hello, nice to meet you all. I was planning on talking about the cultivation of a school culture where educators (and parents and students) employ mindfulness meditation techniques to improve foundational qualities such as emotional resilience, sustained voluntary attention, equanimity and empathy. Master teachers are masterful in these areas, dubbed "emotional intelligence." Stress and burnout are a perennial problems for teachers, and there are a number of techniques for helping to improve in these areas, including secular forms of mindfulness meditation.

NATASHA RIDGE'S COMMENTS