Allison Rodman will take the ENGAGE Mainstage to kick-off day two of the conference. She is an author, the Founder and Chief Learning Officer of The Learning Loop, a certified Framework Specialist with The Danielson Group, and a ASCD faculty member. Allison will share the importance of building collective efficacy in schools as a powerful driver of student achievement. Through stories of shared vulnerability, demonstrated strength, and continuous growth, we will discover how true learning organizations emerge not from flawless execution but from the courage to fail forward together. She will explore why "unreasonable hospitality" - those unexpected acts of care and attention - creates the psychological safety necessary to for teams to take risks, innovate, and ultimately transform their practice. Allison will reveal how learning communities focused on continuous growth create environments where both students and adults flourish. Together, we will leave with a framework for building fierce commitment to both excellence and belonging, understanding that transformation requires both breaking through barriers and breaking bread together.
