Dr. Rob Furman
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Keynotes for the human side of educational change

Put Your Audience Inside the Decisions That Shape Schools

Dr. Rob Furman delivers AI in education keynotes and practical workshops for schools and conferences, grounded in real school leadership. Educators leave with a way to judge whether a tool strengthens learning, teaching, and human responsibility.

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Signature keynote experiences

Big Ideas Grounded in Real School Leadership

Each program can be tailored for administrators, teachers, school boards, education technology audiences, or mixed communities of educators and families.

Leading Schools in the Age of AI

The Human Test

AI is entering schools faster than many organizations can think clearly about it. This keynote gives educators a practical test for every tool, policy, and promise: Does it deepen learning, strengthen educators, protect dignity, and solve a real human problem?

Leadership Decisions When the Pressure Is Real

What Would You Do?

The audience enters realistic school dilemmas involving staff, students, families, trust, and incomplete information. Rob turns each decision into an unforgettable examination of judgment, communication, accountability, and humanity.

Strengthen the Learner—Not Just the Assignment

AI That Actually Helps Schools

A practical, educator-centered examination of AI that guides thinking, preserves productive struggle, expands teacher capacity, and keeps students intellectually responsible for learning.

Beyond the keynote

AI in Education Workshops for Schools and Districts

A keynote can start the conversation. A scheduled workshop gives teachers and school leaders time to test the ideas against their own work. We can focus on a practical classroom task, a first school AI pilot, or the decisions leaders face when a tool sounds promising but its effect on learning is unclear.

  • For teachers: Try a planning or feedback example, check the output, and keep student thinking visible.
  • For leaders: Use the Human Test to examine privacy, teacher judgment, access, and evidence of learning.
  • For teams: Leave with a small next step and a way to decide whether it helped.

Tell me about your audience and the question your school needs to solve. I can suggest a keynote, workshop, or connected session that fits the event.

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Why Rob

Experience Audiences Can Trust

A principal, organizational leader, author, TEDx speaker, and builder of practical educational systems—not a commentator observing schools from the outside.

Rob has presented at national conferences including ISTE, ASCD, NAESP, and AMLE, as well as for districts and leadership organizations throughout the United States.

What audiences take with them

  • A memorable framework educators can use immediately
  • Real school scenarios that generate conversation and reflection
  • Practical language for leading through pressure and change
  • A responsible, human-centered approach to AI implementation
  • A keynote experience that can extend into workshops or leadership institutes

On stage

National Presenter and Two-Time TEDx Speaker

Dr. Rob Furman speaking at TEDx University of Maryland
Dr. Rob Furman speaking at TEDx PRIME

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Give your educators a keynote they will still be discussing on Monday.

Available for national and regional conferences, district events, leadership institutes, professional learning, and education-technology gatherings.

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