The Future of Language Learning Is Human

(For teachers of all ages)

Discover how connecting classrooms across the world gives English a real purpose, building learners’ confidence, curiosity and empathy while developing communication, collaboration and intercultural skills for an interconnected future.

KEYNOTE: Balancing Digital Integration and Human Connection

(For teachers of all ages)

Every classroom that uses digital technology has a teacher who makes important decisions about how to best integrate it for learning. This keynote explores how teachers can use digital tools in meaningful ways to support human connection, build a sense of belonging, increase motivation and communication, and keep positive relationships at the centre of learning.  

Future-proofing our teenage students

(For teachers of teenagers)

Teenagers today face a highly unpredictable future. In this session we will look at practical ways of helping secondary students develop vital skills and attitudes to face the future with confidence! 

‘I was lucky: I had a good teacher’

(For teachers of all ages)

They say, ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’  

They also say, ‘I was lucky: I had a good teacher’. 

In this inspiring and entertaining talk, Ben Crystal celebrates teachers as the vitally important part to someone’s education, and why learning must not come down to luck. 

Conversations That Matter – talking about the news

(For teachers of young adults and adults)

This talk explores some tried-and-tested ways of getting our students engaged with, thinking about and if needed questioning what’s going on in the world and the way that the news and other media presents this. 

Debate: Children Cannot Learn While Using a Device

(For teachers of all ages)

Join Chia, Super, Del, Nathan, and Will as they tackle the claim that children cannot learn while using a device. Is technology destroying attention—or opening powerful new ways to learn?

The Choice Effect: Why Small Decisions Make a Big Difference

(For teachers of teenagers)

Students are more likely to engage when they have meaningful choices in how they learn. Explore why choice matters and discover practical strategies for creating multiple pathways that foster participation, confidence, and deeper learning. What changes when students have more than one way to learn? This session explores why meaningful choice increases ownership, engagement, and participation, and shares practical ways to create multiple pathways into learning for teenage learners. 

Make Space: Helping Every Teenager Find Their Voice in Group Work

(For teachers of teenagers)

Group work doesn’t always give every learner a way in. Explore practical ways to design tasks around different learning preferences, helping every teenager find meaningful opportunities to contribute, interact and learn.

Growing Kind Communicators: Developing Empathy in the Young Learner Classroom

(For teachers of young learners)

Discover practical ways to nurture empathy through every day English lessons. Explore communicative classroom activities that help young learners recognize emotions, understand perspectives, and build meaningful connections through language. 

The Human Library Project: Sharing Stories in the Primary English Classroom

(For teachers of young learners)

Every child has a story to tell. Learn how adapting a Human Library for primary classrooms can encourage authentic communication, speaking confidence, empathy, curiosity, and meaningful connections through storytelling.