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1:00pm CDT

12 Big Questions School Must Answer to Imagine Irresistible Futures

Tuesday June 2, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT

This session offers a guided exploration of the 2025 ebook release on the 12 Big Questions, following the popular 9 BIG Questions Schools Must Answer to Avoid Going "Back to Normal" (*Because "Normal" Wasn't That Great to Begin With) by Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson. The big questions are being used as a provocation to drive meaningful and fearless inquiry around school change and efficacy in the midst of volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) conditions in the world and in education. Through probing, interactive activities we will audit and explore questions such as What is Learning? Why Do We ______? and Who is Unheard? as well as the three new questions: What is Your Story? What is Success? and What is Your Legacy? Embarking on a systematic interrogation of key questions, our “why” becomes clearer, to unlock new “how’s” for steering schools through crisis and uncertainty.

Speakers

Homa Tavangar

Cofounder, Big Questions Institute

Homa Tavanger is the co-founder of the Big Questions Institute and the Oneness Lab.She brings 30+ years’ experience helping diverse organizations and individuals to build cultural, racial and global competence, strategic governance, and visionary, generative leadership in diverse schools and organizations. She coaches leaders on accountability for equity... Read More →

Tuesday June 2, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT
Dunseth Auditorioum

ignite culture leadership wellness

Dynamic Theme Exploration

2:00pm CDT

Think Like a Futurist

Tuesday June 2, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT

Dunseth Auditorioum

The future isn’t something we predict; it’s what we create. Futurists from some of the most prestigious research institutions tap into particular tools like sense-making imagination infrastructures, urgent optimism and evidence-based imagination. Learn how these can help make you not only a better leader, but also a more hopeful one.

Speakers

Homa Tavangar

Cofounder, Big Questions Institute

Tuesday June 2, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
Dunseth Auditorioum

ignite leadership culture

Dynamic Theme Exploration

3:00pm CDT

The Power of Productive Disagreement

Tuesday June 2, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm CDT

Dunseth Auditorioum

The goal isn’t consensus—it’s understanding. This highly interactive session explores why disagreement is necessary for learning and how to challenge ideas without dehumanizing people. Act as a "provocateur" alongside our facilitators as we tackle education’s most controversial topics in real-time. Practice the discomfort of honest dialogue and learn to build stronger communities through the art of the "passionate disagreement."

Speakers

MOmentum

1:00pm CDT

Homa Tavangar

2:00pm CDT

Homa Tavangar

3:00pm CDT

Bill McClellan

Charlie Brennan

Alvin Reid

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