2026 L+D Caravan Tour Resource Page
Thank you for attending the 2026 Leadership + Design Caravan Tour Resource Page!
Questions? Please contact Dena Torino.
Questions? Please contact Dena Torino.
Resources
- Recording
- Slide deck
- Survey
About the Session
Schools often respond to student behavior through systems designed for compliance, control, and efficiency. But what if our discipline practices and support systems were designed to build capacity, agency, and learning?
Reimagine student life through a human-centered design lens. Explore how schools can create cultures of care, accountability, and growth that help students thrive while reducing the need to reactive intervention.
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Resources
- Recording
- Slide deck
- Survey
About the Session
We want to change the way that people are talking to each other in schools. So often, in education, you are promoted into leadership because you are good at your current job. "You are a great teacher, why don't you lead ___?" You begin to do this work, and you realize that leading adults is hard - it's not the same thing you were doing before.
Grow your leadership presence and skillfully navigate the complexities of giving and receiving feedback. Learn to hold space, manage up and down, and transform tension into trust.
Resources
- Recording
- Slide deck
- Survey
About the Session
The core paradox: what we experience as resistance in others is a reflection of our own fears, assumptions, and need for control. These sessions pushed into rich territory: what blocks us from seeing others as fully capable, how recognizing resistance changes the way we give feedback, and how we might gather resistance early as a gift for learning rather than an attack - how can we look at ideas, plans, the resistance itself shoulder to shoulder? Sitting with the paradox doesn't mean we need to compromise integrity. We can draw boundaries and articulate those boundaries.