Attendees can expect to learn about the STREAM-PLP, a group creative problem-solving workshop that uses writing, engineering, and theater activities for middle and high school students to set personal, academic, and vocational goals in a Personal Learning Plan (PLP). The PLP is based on the Special Education IEP, and developed and reimagined annually by the mainstream student. (Leigh asks that you immediately write down/record whatever popped into your head as you read the above description of the STREAM-PLP, and please consider sharing that during the conference presentation discussion.)

Speaker: Leigh I. Cremin

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to join.

Students who participate in Destination Imagination learn more than just STEAM-based skills. Join the Educational Experiences Team as they discuss how participating in the Destination Imagination Challenge Experience gives team members the opportunity to practice workplace readiness skills such as empathy, teamwork, personal responsibility, self-awareness, emotional regulation, social awareness, and goal-directed behavior. Join us in exploring how these vital skills empower participants to grow and develop into the next generation of innovators.

Speakers: DI’s Educational Experiences Team (Erica Begun-Veenstra, Kris Beisel, Amanda Potter, Johnny Wells)

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

As a follow up to last summer's session on the American Rescue Plan funding, we will take a look at where the funding is now and how to promote DI as a way for districts to use it.

Speaker: Adam Law

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to join.

The elements and processes of Destination Imagination are not merely limited to use with teams of students solving DI Team Challenges and Instant Challenges. Creativity, the creative process, and Destination Imaginations pedagogy are excellent building blocks for use in any learning environment. Not only do these elements energize a project or lesson but these elements bring life-long skills for innovation and success in solving any challenge life presents. Join Director of Education, Johnny Wells, for some tips on motivating learners in the classroom by using Destination Imagination approaches. Attendees are eligible to receive a certificate of attendance for verifying professional development hours.

Speaker: Johnny Wells

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

Unleash the creative potential of multilingualism to increase worldwide collaborations to solve DI service-learning challenges that are matched to global goals. Students can engage in transformative conversations about their solutions to DI challenges. These dialogues can create more of an awareness of our diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging from a worldwide perspective. At times agreed beforehand by the teams, they can meet to discuss successes and challenges of the DI service-learning challenge online . Through these collaborative dialogues, they will be inspired with various perspectives and could be encouraged to create more alliances. Using translanguaging will engage the children, teachers, parents to provide DIers with a richer sources of information through the translation of text with online tools.

Speaker: Jessica Ream

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

This session will introduce how to teach the work breakdown structure (WBS) to kids as a good technique to plan and control the scope of a project. As Shammy is a Project Manager she asks this question: How can we teach in a Project Based way if we do not teach the students to develop a proper project management structure?

Destination Imagination has great PM templates, now I want to add the WBS in a Kanban as part of a PM methodology.

Speaker: Shammy Coello

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

In this session, attendees will: - Learn about the Portuguese variations to Destination Imagination - Know the parallel activities and initiatives Torrance Center promotes to enrich the participants’ experience - Learn about the Portuguese Programs’ (Destination Imagination & others) impact evaluation, results, testimonials, and experiences.

Speakers: Margarida Cardoso, Adriana Correa

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

Practical tools to build inclusion and belonging in our social and professional environments, while learning how to navigate conflict and uncomfortable conversations. The session will cover how to nurture individual and collective authenticity, creative approaches to enhance innovation, and ways to lean in so that everyone has the same opportunity to stand out in their full unique expression.

Speaker: Beverley Akufo-Addo

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

Is your team having trouble being seen, heard, or understood in performance? Does your team struggle with embodying a character? You're not alone! This interactive session is designed to help you encourage your teams to use their actor tools (body, voice, imagination) to make big choices in performance. You'll walk away with several activities to apply at your next team meeting.

Speaker: Kelsey Celek

This session will take place in the Purple Room. Click here to enter.

Creativity is an inherent part of how we learn as human beings. Creativity is more than artistic ability. Creativity is integral to effectively exploring solutions anywhere and anytime. Join the DI Educational Experiences Team as they discuss the creative process, the DI philosophy of learning, and how you can encourage creativity in your team members.

Speakers: DI’s Educational Experiences Team (Erica Begun-Veenstra, Kris Beisel, Amanda Potter, Johnny Wells)

This session will take place in the Orange Room. Click here to enter.