Speakers / Facilitators
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Co-founder and CEO
Powerful Learning Practice, Virginia Beach CA
21stcenturycollaborative
plpnetwork.com
@snbeach
During a 25-year education career, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach has been a classroom teacher, technology coach, charter school principal, district administrator, university instructor and digital learning consultant. Sheryl is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Powerful Learning Practice, where she works with schools and districts from across the US, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Australia to re-envision their learning cultures and communities through the Learner Experience. She is the author (with Lani Ritter Hall) of The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age (Solution Tree, 2012) and is in the dissertation phase of completing her doctorate in Educational Planning, Policy and Leadership at the College of William and Mary.
Lisa Neale
Principal
Ancaster Senior Public School and Systems Learning Commons, Hamilton Wentworth District School Board
@lisaneale
Lisa Neale is currently the Principal of Ancaster Senior Public School and The System Learning Commons located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Lisa's passion for edtech started in the classroom in 1995 with one computer and eight students. Ever since then, it's always been about engaging and empowering students and staff with a variety of tools that offer them choice and voice in how, when, where and what they learn. Her teaching experiences include: core/french immersion teacher, special education teacher and learning resource teacher. She has been in system and school administration since 2000 with portfolios in Adult and Continuing Education, 21st Century Learning and eLearning in both elementary and secondary panels. She has been a PLPeep course participant and guest presenter. She believes that leaders must learn first and lead second. Learning and leading must be visible, connected and tech-savvy. You can find out more on her blog and on twitter at @lisaneale.