Sessions
Unconference Session at the iEARN Conference
Allen Witten
Sunburst Youth Academy
Allen Witten is a Global Education teacher at Sunburst Youth Academy in Los Alamitos, California. He has participated in the iEARN Girl Rising project for the past two years. In 2016 and 2017, he traveled to visit iEARN educators and students at St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School in New Delhi, India. In 2017, he traveled to...Read Full Bio
Allen Witten
Allen Witten is a Global Education teacher at Sunburst Youth Academy in Los Alamitos, California. He has participated in the iEARN Girl Rising project for the past two years. In 2016 and 2017, he traveled to visit iEARN educators and students at St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School in New Delhi, India. In 2017, he traveled to Phagwara, India to visit iEARN educators and students at Kamla Nehru Public School. Future plans include a December 2018 journey to Keimei Gakuen School in Tokyo, Japan to visit iEARN Girl Rising co-facilitator and educator, Mari Sekine and her students before continuing on to India to meet with iEARN project partners.
Recipient of:
2017 Orange County Department of Education “Vision and Excellence” award.
2018 Parenting O.C. Magazine “Top Global Educator” award.
Type: Roundtable
Location: Room 1101
Date: Friday
Time: 2:00-2:50 PM
Session Description
An unconference is the opposite of a formal conference session. There is not predetermined agenda or content. The topics, knowledge sharing, engagement and overall experience are the responsibility of the participants. The purpose is to foster ideas, conversations and peer to peer learning among attendees. This session will begin with attendees identifying topics they would like to discuss and then breakout discussions form based on those topics. Come with a topic that you would like to discuss and an open mind!
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
To share knowledge, resources, and best practices with one another.