Nader Twal

We are pleased to announce that Nader Twal will be serving as the keynote speaker for the 2018 RP Conference.

Nader twalTwal serves as Program Administrator for innovative Professional Development (iPD) in the Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development of Long Beach Unified School District and coordinates a focused team effort to actualize the iPD Theory of Action, through Design Thinking

Given simple and multimodal access to high quality, job-embedded, collectively-developed online and offline professional development (anchored in a common Teaching and Learning Framework and high functioning Communities of Practice), teachers will be better equipped with the tools, research, and professional learning opportunities to accelerate implementation of the Common Core State Standards and increase student achievement.

For the four and half years prior, he served as the Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) and Linked Learning Project Coordinator in the Secondary Schools Office, working with a gifted team of educators to actualize the district’s Academic and Career Success Initiative. With over nine years of classroom experience, eleven years of site-level teacher leadership, and six years as a district administrator, he has developed a unique perspective on systems-level reform — from grant writing and strategic planning to effective community outreach and building teacher capacity.

Twal has managed multi-million dollar budgets, and has established systems of accountability and progress monitoring that inform processes in the Secondary Schools Office to date.

As a Milken National Educator (CA 2003) and California Association of Teachers of English Award for Classroom Excellence Recipient (2008), he remains committed to equipping, empowering, and inspiring educators to own the profession and better serve every student, every day.