Speakers
Ross Wehner
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Ross Wehner is Founder of World Leadership School and Co-Founder TeachUNITED, which partner with a diverse range of K-12 schools to reimagine learning and create next-generation leaders. Ross is also Founding Partner of World Action Teams, the mission of which is to help corporations develop leaders who create value for business and society. Ross’ approach to leadership development integrates his work as a journalist, teacher and wilderness educator. As a journalist, Ross covered the end of Chile’s Pinochet regime for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1990. For the next five years, he reported from around Latin America on climate change, human rights, outdoor adventure and other topics for Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Outside, and other magazines. As a teacher, Ross worked at The Miller School in Crozet, Virginia, The Bush School in Seattle, and the University of Virginia, where he received an MA in Spanish American Literature. Ross has also worked as a wilderness instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Ross is working on a book exploring purpose learning in a range of K-12 schools, and has worked alongside Richard Leider in corporate leadership development programs designed to help executives develop a sense of purpose.
Sessions Keynote - Purpose Learning: Will We Seize This Moment? Session 1 - Exploring Purpose Driven Learning as a Tool for Service Learning Session 2 - Keeping the Human Connection in Online Learning |
Dr. Pascal Losambe
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Dr. Pascal Losambe has a Bachelor’s in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Middlebury College (VT) and a Master’s of Science in Biology from Boston College where he received the Donald J. White award for teaching excellence, a distinguished honor given annually to graduate instructors. Dr. Losambe has earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Purdue University with a focus on cultural competence. Additionally, he serves on regional diversity boards, has led strategic vision initiatives for various institutions, and has conducted multiple workshops on cultural competence at national and international conferences. Dr. Losambe’s achievements include the Mosaic Award in 2018, and being invited onto the Purdue University Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Advisory Board and the Independent School Association of the Central States Equity and Justice Committee Board.
Sessions Keynote - Purpose Learning: Will We Seize This Moment? |
Erin Hawk
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Erin Hawk, Executive Director of World Leadership School, focuses on developing sustainable partnerships with communities hosting WLS’ Collaborative Leadership Programs and works closely with schools to help transform learning through life-changing travel opportunities and inspiring educator development. Erin also works with school partners on connecting student travel programs to the learning as a way to manage the risks of off-campus programs. Prior to joining World Leadership School, Erin served as a Director of Programs for Camp Fire USA, a youth development non-profit that focuses on service-learning and summer camps. While at Camp Fire, Erin developed new service learning and outdoor programs for after-school, in-school and summer camp settings using the traditional Camp Fire USA curriculum. Before that, Erin helped design and manage inner-city youth programs for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Tucson, Arizona. Erin has also led student travel programs throughout Africa, Latin America and the American West. Most recently she has led student programs for WLS in India, Tanzania, Belize, Peru and Costa Rica and developed WLS’ partnerships in Turkey, India, Morocco, Tanzania, Rwanda, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, and Peru. Through these programs, Erin seeks to enable students to unleash their unknown potential.
Sessions Session 1 - Group Dynamics: Using the Stages of Group Dynamics to Enhance Student Engagement Session 2 - Remote Activism: Igniting Change While Avoiding the Pitfalls |
Jessica Catoggio
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Jessica Catoggio has deep experience coaching teachers around project-based learning. She is passionate about building communities and aims to connect with others through differences and similarities. She values inquiry, curiosity, and in-depth questioning and helps teachers create dynamic classroom communities in which all students thrive. Jessica is a veteran teacher with 20 years experience in both public and independent schools, including the last 13 years as a lower school teacher at Collegiate School in Richmond, VA. While at Collegiate, Jessica evolved her project-based approach after taking multiple PBL trainings and receiving her coaching certificate from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. At Collegiate, she coached her colleagues through the stages of project-based learning and helped lead an effort to establish capstone projects. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and went on to receive a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, traveling, and paddling Richmond’s beautiful James River with her husband and two children. She can’t leave home without her Sheepadoodle puppy, Rally!
Sessions Sessions 1 & 2 - PBL Sprint |
Natasha Ward
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Dr. Natasha Ward is an educational consultant, behavioral change health coach, and a virtual instructional coach with multiple organizations. She received her doctorate in School Improvement with concentrations in Educational Leadership and School Counseling from the University of West Georgia. With a Masters in Teaching from Georgia State University and a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Spanish from Spelman College, Dr. Natasha’s career spans across a variety of educational sectors. While teaching and consulting, she has guided, coached, and mentored pre-service and in-service teachers nationally and internationally on classroom management, culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy, best instructional practices, mindfulness in the classroom, critical inquiry, and teaching the whole child. She has also presented at conferences on critical inquiry projects, whole-care practices for educational professionals, and the implementation of SEL practices in the classroom. Dr. Natasha has experience with grades K-12, however, her foundation is in lower schools (K-5). She ultimately desires to bridge the gap between community and home through project-based learning and critical inquiry, so that students and teachers are able to evolve, unveil, and transform more into their whole selves.
Sessions Session 2 - Remote Activism: Igniting Change While Avoiding the Pitfalls |
Honor Moorman
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Honor Moorman is an educational consultant who works with educators, schools, districts, and organizations across the country. In her 20 years as an educator, she has been a classroom teacher, literacy specialist, dean of instruction, and school coach. Her areas of passion and expertise include literacy, digital learning, and global education. Honor has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for pre-service teachers, and she has facilitated countless professional learning experiences for in-service teachers. She is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Education at Trinity University.
Recently, Honor served as the Associate Director for Professional Development and Curriculum at Asia Society and as the Implementation Team Leader at World Savvy. She was also a curriculum designer for the Global Competence Certificate Program at Teachers College, Columbia University and served on the NYC Global Education Coalition’s professional development steering committee. Honor consults for numerous global learning organizations including Asia Society’s Center for Global Education, Global Nomads Group, the Institute of International Education, IREX, Primary Source, the Ross Institute, World Savvy, and World Leadership School. Sessions Sessions 1 & 2 - Global Engagement: Integrating the Global Goals Into Your Local Curriculum |
