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Jennifer D. Klein

Updated: Oct 23


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As an author and global speaker, Jennifer brings 30+ years of experience to amplify student voice in every classroom.


KEYNOTE

Hope Is a Verb that Invites Action: Educating with Purpose and Courage in Polarized Times

BIO

Jennifer D. Klein is a product of experiential project-based education herself, and she lives and breathes the student-centered pedagogies used to educate her. She became a teacher during graduate school in 1990, quickly finding the intersection between her love of writing and her fascination with educational transformation and its potential impact on social change. A former head of school with extensive international experience and over 30 years in education--including 19 in the classroom--Jennifer facilitates dynamic, interactive keynotes and workshops for teachers, leaders and learners, working to amplify student voice, to provide the tools for high-quality project-based learning and identity-responsive teaching in all cultural and socio-economic contexts, and to shift school culture to support such practices. Motivated by her belief that all children deserve a meaningful, relevant education like the one she experienced herself, and that giving them such an education will catalyze positive change in their communities and beyond, Jennifer strives to inspire educators to shift their practices in schools worldwide.



SESSIONS

  • Session 1: Cultivating Social and Emotional Wellbeing through Inclusion: Designing Identity-Responsive Classrooms to Foster SEL

  • Session 2: Student-Directed Everything: Elevating Voice and Choice to Agency and Protagonism

  • Session 3: Student-Centered Evaluation: Empowering Learners to Own Their Growth

  • Session 4: Teaching Perspectives in Times of Conflict: Fostering Global Competency and Civil Dialogue when it Matters Mos



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