Masterclass With Fearless Educator

About Speaker: Samuel Hungsoo Kim, a Korean national, is the Founding President of the Center for Asia Leadership. He is passionate about nurturing and empowering talent in Asia and runs over 70 programs annually, in 31 Asian countries, to help the region’s decision-makers and emerging leaders face today’s varying complex realities by initiating and managing the process of making critical adaptations and improvements.His research and programs focus on Organizational Adaptability and Resilience, Futures Thinking, Decision Making, Learning Organization, Moral Leadership, and Power and Influence. He has worked for or with over 30 renowned organizations, including the United Nations, UNESCO, Samsung, and Toyota. Samuel holds an MPA from Harvard University. He is the editor of 13 books and regularly writes opinion pieces and editorials. #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject

About Speaker: Kamala Mukunda is trained in educational, developmental, and cognitive psychology, and has been working at a teacher-run school for nearly 30 years. She has a deep interest in conveying relevant psychological research to teachers, because she believes that this will enrich their professional lives and spark a lasting sense of wonder in learning. She has published two books for teachers and parents: What Did You Ask at School Today, Books 1 and 2.  #XPLAINed #Mastercourse #Loveyoursubject

About Speaker: RamG Vallath is the happiest and most positive individual he has ever met. Having graduated from IIT and completed his post-graduation from XLRI, RamG went on to build a highly successful career. But a crippling disorder derailed his dreams. However, RamG reinvented his life as a bestselling author and motivational speaker. Today, he has addressed over 50,000 professionals and over 60,000 students and helped them instil traits such as growth mindset, resilience, and positive thinking. He is the author of the bestselling book, Active Parenting that helps parents with practical tools to raise truly successful adults.   #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: Jim Connor is the founder and co-creator of Whispering Seed, a small NGO working in Myanmar (Burma) on youth empowerment and teacher training by bridging sustainability and holistic education. With over 20 years’ experience living and working in Asia, he and his children started Sprouting Seeds Café, Bakery and Eco Shop, a training centre to empower local youth and teachers.  Currently they are developing Whispering Earth Living and Learning Sustainability Training Centre, a 14 acre learning centre located in rural Myanmar focusing on Permaculture, natural building, organic farming, seed saving and holistic education.  #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: An architect by education and filmmaker by profession. Over 6 years of travel with Thannal he has directed two video songs about natural building and also launched India's first Natural building app. This collective understanding between architecture and filmmaking has given him a new perception to portray the dimensions of natural building.  #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: Gautham, educator, entrepreneur, and global citizen, hails from Attappady, a remote village in Kerala, India, and works as a web developer. Realizing that education is the practice of living and letting live, his parents established Sarang, a life-based learning center. His education at Sarang helped him take on many roles in life with clarity. At the time his parents dreamt of education beyond schools, it was unheard of. Today there are many working in the field of education taking inspiration from Sarang. Working towards taking the Sarang experience to children, parents, and teachers, Gautham is seeking team members and resources.  #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: Pooja Joshi Samant is a Founder Trustee & Executive Director of Mimaansa. She have been running the organisation for last 8 years. Learning Disability was a reality, and someone had to address it. A disability which affects about 12 million kids in India could not have any more gone ignored. Which is how Mimaansa with its early intervention model took form. She continues to look after the monitoring & evaluation of the program along with Fund Raising. Mimaansa recently bagged the best innovation award in India from among 367 entries. We have also been featured by The Vodafone International foundation in their coffee table book on 50 most inspirational women in India. Mimaansa also received a Key transparency award from Guidestar which validates Mimaansa to be a fair and transparent NGO.  #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: Prof (Dr) Rashmi Diwan, Head, National Centre for School Leadership, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration. She is instrumental in establishing the first National Centre for School Leadership at NIEPA under the aegis of Government of India. In her professional journey of more than 35 years at NIEPA, she is committed to teaching, capacity building, empirical research and extensive published work primarily in the areas of school education, leadership and management. She has also led educational programmes in East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii in United States of America, National Centre for Leadership and Teaching in the United Kingdom and several Educational Institutions in Paris, France, Helsinki, Finland, and several others across the world.   #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: Deepti Gubbi, Currently Head of Education at - Jai Vakeel Foundation. She is a Child Development Specialist, and an Autism Interventionist and therapist for specific learning differences. She has been working for and with children with special learning needs for the last 20 years  #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators

About Speaker: Sam Durrant taught French for many years in comprehensive schools in the UK. I mainly specialised in pastoral care at Key Stage 4, administering GCSE exams for 16-year-olds at all ability levels. I have worked in Goa for 6 years. Our curriculum combines an in-depth mastery of academic subjects like Maths, English, Science, Humanities and Languages along with the development of the skills needed for a happy and successful future. SO a deep subject knowledge as well as developing higher order thinking skills such as; learning from mistakes; positivity; self-awareness; team-work; research; extended writing; presentation skills; critical thinking and problem solving. Transferable skills that last a lifetime  #unlearning #learn_relearn_unlearn #unsungeducators