Educational Programs
Gopal conducts educational programs including interactive talks, workshops, seminars, conferences, consultancies. All these programs are invitations to awaken or (renew) a sustained passion for teaching, parenting, education, and life.
Who is this for?
Schools, Universities, Teachers, Teacher apprentices, Administrators, Teacher educators, Students, Homeschoolers, Unschoolers, Parents and other educators.
Sample Presentations, Workshops, and Conferences
2025: Speaker/Interactive Presenter: Can it [teaching] be otherwise?, MIT, Edgerton Center.
2025: Designer of an Education Working for Democracy Conference Series
2023: Conference organizer and co-presenter with Profs. Eleanor Duckworth and Jason Duque on Transformative Education, Ventura Public Library, CA.
2022: Invited Talk and Presentation on Intrinsic Innovation: Taking Mistakes, ATAL Innovation Mission, Government of India.
2022: Panel facilitator in Protecting the Promise of Public Education with Diane Ravitch, Deborah Meier, Domingo Morel, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Sonia Nieto, and Eleanor Duckworth. Transcript in Professing Education e-journal of Society of Professors of Education.
2020: Initiator and organizer of UCSB-AUSB education conference with Prof. Eleanor Duckworth (Harvard, Teacher Education).
2020: Invited participant, Compassionate Systems Workshop, Peter Senge (MIT)
2019: Invited Keynote Speaker on Re-wilding Learning, In Bloom Conference on Nature Based Education, Antioch University, Santa Barbara.
2018: Guest Lecturer: (1) Starting school from scratch, Global Studies and Education course; (2) The cultural grammar of schooling, Culture and Education course; (3) Towards a negational ethic in education, (for faculty), University of Winchester, UK
2018: Invited Keynote Speaker at a conference on Alternative Ways of Educating Teachers to Educate Children Differently: What do curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy look like when ‘done differently’? BERA [British Educational Research Association] Conference, London.
2017: Selected Speaker at the Telegraph Education Festival (UK), on Transformative Teaching for
Transformative Learning.
2015: Conference organizer and co-presenter with Prof. Eleanor Duckworth (Harvard University) and William Ayers (University of Illinois), Educational Conference on Another Learning Is Possible, University of Winchester, UK.
2013-2014: Conference organizer and co-presenter with Prof. Eleanor Duckworth, and William Ayers on Conference on Mind, Society, and Transformative Education Raman Research Institute, India, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, India, and Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2013: Conference organizer and co-presenter, Educational Conference on When is Teaching? with Prof. Eleanor Duckworth (Harvard), Brockwood Park School, UK.
2010: Sponsored Presenter, Educating the Educator: a report of the Teaching Academy 2009, Education, Symposium, University of Delhi, India.