Presentations

Learn about what makes Midland unique: place-based courses, experiential learning opportunities, the jobs program, outdoor leadership, our 10-acre organic farm, and our natural horsemanship program set on a working cattle ranch. Midland combines all this with rigorous college preparation AND students getting sufficient rest and leisure time. What systems do we have in place to make this work? Find out by joining this session!

Let's explore how games can act as vehicles for systems thinking and learning! Our session will begin with a brief overview of gamification and game design principles, to set the stage and a common understanding of our context in learning through play. We will then present a unique card game as the subject for a creative dissection exercise. Divergence is a design thinking card game designed by Press Start Academy with the Hong Kong Design Center, and which acts as one of the foundation experiences for Press Start Academy's design thinking, entrepreneurship and climate leadership programs for schools and corporates.

This session aims to equip participants with a comprehensive linguistic equity toolkit to use in their classrooms. 

Participants will play the Brain Architecture Game, a creation of the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center @ University of Southern California; Center on the Developing Child @ Harvard University; Clinical & Translational Science Institute @ the University of Pittsburgh; and the FrameWorks Institute.

The following season will focus on the need for leaders to possess effective facilitation skills to guide discussions efficiently, ensuring that every team member's ideas are heard and valued.

Marketing techniques borrowed from the business world and adapted for your school library. Turn your library into the most important learning centre in your school community!

articipants will explore AI tools that support academic integrity, collaborate on best practices, and share participant-developed methods.

Lunch is no longer just a break—it's a classroom for life! This session challenges the status quo by transforming the school lunch period into a dynamic curriculum on manners, dialogue, nutrition, and essential 21st-century skills.

This will be an introduction to Xcode. Learn how to promote entrepreneurship and agency at your school with app development.