Keynote Speakers
The AASE Conference Committee are working hard to bring you an engaging line up of Keynote speakers. Watch this space as we announce more Keynote Speakers over the coming weeks!
Carol Tomlinson
Carol Ann Tomlinson is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education where she served as Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy, and Co-Director of the University’s Institutes on Academic Diversity. Prior to joining the faculty at UVa, she was a teacher in public schools for 21 years, during which she taught students in high school, preschool, and middle school and also administered programs for struggling and advanced learners. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974.
Carol was named Outstanding Professor at Curry in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. In 2019, she was ranked #8 in the Education Week Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings of 200 “University-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling,” and as the #3 voice in Educational Psychology. She works throughout the United States and internationally with educators who seek to create classrooms that are more effective with academically diverse student populations.
George Sugai
George Sugai is Emeritus Professor in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. In May 2019 he retired as Carole J. Neag Endowed Chair and Professor with tenure in School of Education at University of Connecticut. His research and practice interests included school-wide positive behavior support, behavioral disorders, applied behavior analysis, organizational management, and classroom and behavior management, and school discipline. He has been a classroom teacher, program director, personnel preparer, and applied researcher. Currently, he is senior advisor for the OSEP Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Mark Le Messurier
Mark Le Messurier is a teacher, counsellor, public speaker and the author of many books. He works in private practice as a mentor to children and adolescents, and as a coach to parents. Mark is passionate about creating real community, or socially and emotionally literate cultures, in classrooms and schools. He, along with notable others, believes it falls to us to create safe spaces where students in classrooms can share, connect, feel as though they matter and are encouraged to explore their emerging worlds together. Mark is often invited as a critical friend into schools who want to develop this social and emotional ethos.
He has a strong interest in the young people he affectionately calls the ‘tough kids’; these are children who for all kinds of well-known reasons do life tougher than most. Mark's work focuses on strengthening their success through mentorship and targeted interventions. He sees the encouragement of stronger, trusting relationships between parents, teachers and students as key.
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