Conferences

Zak Cohen is a frequent presenter at conferences in the United States and across the globe, focusing on personalized learning practices that empower educators and school leaders to innovate with confidence, affirm student voice, and cultivate an equitable learning environment.

Panelist, Center for Democracy & Technology's Learning Community for Responsible School Technology Use Conference, What Does ChatGPT Mean for the Future of Schools? (March 2023)

Presenter, Kentucky ACT Conference, Learning by Mistake (February 2023)

Guest Speaker, The Kelly Cutrara Show AM640 Toronto (January 2023)

Moderator, Educators Without Borders, The Future of Schools: Part I and II (Spring 2022)

Presenter, Institute for Personalized Learning Annual Convening, Flexible Grouping Models (February 2022)

Presenter, European League for Middle Level Education, Flexible Grouping Models (January 2022)

Presenter, Learning Forward Conference, Mistakes as an Instrument of Learning (December 2021)

Presenter, ASCD New Era of Education Conference, Learning From Our Mistakes (October 2021)

Co-Presenter, 2021 Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Comunity Driven Social Activism (September 2021)

Presenter, ASCD Connected and Empowered Conference, The Pandemic is a Portal (June 2021)

Presenter, ASCD Symposium: The Empowered Principal, Learning From Our Mistakes (April 2021)

Presenter, Area Division H Roundtable, The Taxonomy of Mistake Literacy (April 2021)

Presenter, ASCD Leadership Summit, How to Achieve Perfection Without Being Perfect (January 2021)

Presenter, KIE 2020 Conference, Mistake Literacy: How We Learn From Our Mistakes (August 2020)

Presenter, IEC 2020: Istanbul, Building the Theory of Mistake Literacy (May 2020)

Recurring Panelist, Ikamva Leafrika Education Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa (August 2018 - Present)

Awards

Fellow, New Leaders Council Kentucky (Class of 2023) 

Emerging Leader, Ignite Louisville (Class of 2022) 

Dr. Ken Mawritz Memorial Award Recipient, Drexel University (May 2022)

Teck-Kah Lim Travel Grant, Drexel University, Presented research at Drexel's ScholarShare (October 2021)

Emerging leader, ASCD Emerging Leaders Program (Class of 2020)

Publications

Author, The Core Collaborative, Why ChatGPT is the Search Engine of the Future (March 2023)

Author, Educational Leadership Magazine, Leveraging ChatGPT: Practical Ideas for Educators (January 2023)

Contributor, Business Insider, These teachers think ChatGPT can help them spend less time on writing reports – and more time with their students (January 2023) 

Author, Peers and Pedagogy, We’ve Come a Long Way, Fast (December 2022)

Author, Educational Leadership Magazine, Cultivating Wise Freedom in Middle Schools (November 2022)

Author, Educational Leadership Magazine, Normalizing Professional Failure (October 2022)

Contributor, ASCD Publishing, Assessing with Respect (March 2020)

Contributor, Times10 Publishing, Hacking Learning Centers in Grades 6-12 (December 2019) 

Editor, Square One Publishing, Freeing Freddie the Dream Weaver (December 2017)