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This day featured four important talks from key experts inside education and outside, inside New Zealand and internationally. Interspersed between these talks there was time for reflection and conversation, grounded by new thinking tools which Jennifer Garvey Berger introduced over the course of the day.

8.15 Registration opened.

9am Introduction to the conference and the key ideas
Thinking tool 1, reflection and conversation

Talk 1: Michael Young – Schooling, curriculum and social justice
(Read a liveblog written during this talk)

11.05 Morning tea

11.25 Thinking tool 2, reflection and conversation

Talk 2: Cathy Wylie: Fairness and justice in 21st century schools – some lessons from the Tomorrow’s Schools reforms

12.25 Lunch
1.25Talk 3: Keith Johnston: No longer “them and us.”  It’s all about “us”
(Read a liveblog written during this talk)

Thinking tool 3, reflection and conversation

2.25 Afternoon tea

2.50 Talk 4: Jane Gilbert: Education, knowledge, and equality? Shifting our thinking for the 21st century
Thinking tool 4, reflection and conversation

3.30-4pm Introduction to Act III