Renew your passion for teaching and learning with this presentation that will provide specific and concrete ideas for making your classroom one where children are strong protagonists of their own learning. Hands on activities with materials and ideas for obtaining easy to find materials will be a focus of this presentation. Through the Innovative Mindset and the work of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, reinvigorate your teaching with strategies such as how to pose big, open-ended questions, how to value and incorporate purposeful collaboration, how to use materials to make a child's thinking visible, and how to build play as a strategy for learning. Recommit and renew the joy of learning!