During each of the six breakout sessions throughout the weekend, a large number of conversations will take place. This site will help you organize your plan for the weekend and provide the relevant information for each conversation. After signing in, search through the conversations below and mark the sessions you are interested in to populate your personal schedule on the right (or below if on your mobile phone).
And please click on the session for a more detailed description of the session!
How might we use creative forms of expression to help us identify solutions, communicate expectations, guide processes, and innovate education? Experiment with strategies and discuss methods that bring purposeful creativity into our committee meetings and conference rooms.
Descriptions of how things work are often made more complex than they need to be. Let's cut through the noise.
How to continually challenge advanced readers in early grades? By designing personalized reading studies that combine reading and writing, assess for skills mastery through engaging virtual games, foster independence, and interdisciplinary connections.
At Tempe Elementary Schools, we are designing a new, purpose-driven learning model, centered on student agency and self-discovery. The goal is to help students identify their unique values, interests, and skills, as they explore and experience all that is possible for them.
Personal computing is not neutral and its effects feel different in 2025 than ten years ago. This is conversation on what we are seeing, and what we might do to create the technology environment we want
AI platforms will come and go. What disposition should we be nurturing in students to prepare them for the murky future of living and working with AI? This conversation will surface new modes of skills that learners need to leverage an unprecedented and evolving AI toolkit: judgment, agency, and creativity.
Unpacking the implications of the "abundance" agenda for education.
Educator burnout is real—but it can also be a turning point. In this session, we’ll share stories, explore systemic causes, and co-create strategies for renewal. Together we’ll build a collective toolkit for sustaining joy, purpose, and impact in teaching and learning.
This interactive session brings the attendees together to address bullying in schools. Through dialogue, scenarios, and collaborative problem-solving, participants will co-create practical strategies to recognize, prevent, and respond to bullying—leaving with immediate action steps to foster safer, more inclusive classrooms and communities.
This workshop explores the use of thematic instruction to intentionally make history classrooms more thoughtful places.
Building 21's Community Council empowers students to resolve conflicts through restorative conversations. This Tier 1 intervention trains 11th and 12th graders to guide peers, fostering a school culture of accountability, empathy, and intentional restoration.
Planning in an inquiry driven classroom can be challenging! What tools, workflows, and techniques do SLA teachers use to ensure that planning is student-centered and meaningful? How do you plan? Join in on an open and honest conversation led by an SLA teacher about planning effective units and day-to-day lessons.
In a world defined by uncertainty, rapid change, and constant upheaval, it is the artist’s mindset—creative, adaptable, and boldly curious—that becomes not just valuable, but vital. It empowers us all to navigate complexity with confidence and to shape the future rather than fear it.
AI has forced educators to reflect on their teaching and learning practices, especially when it comes to assessment. Author & educator Michael Hernandez leads this discussion about strategies for designing cheat-resistant assignments and how to foster cultures of academic integrity. See case studies, and begin designing uncheatable assessments.
If you could change one thing about education, what would it be? Join 2 preservice teachers in conversation about the little things we have control over every day as educators.
Exploring collective best practices for engaging students as they read both fiction and non-fiction.
With the advent of AI, students can now create products in ways they never could before, but how do we know when those products represent deeper student learning?
Creativity, flexibility, and endurance are required for every role in the school ecosystem—whether responding to another mandate, supporting a student in crisis, or figuring out staff coverage. Let’s discuss how we tackle both persistent and emerging challenges. Come for honest conversation, practical strategies, and tools you can use next week.
Discover how our public school supports 11th graders through a holistic internship program that connects students' interests to career pathways while addressing equity gaps in an urban, Title I setting. We'll share our collaborative model involving teachers, our Real World Learning Director, and our school social worker to support the whole student—academically, socially, and professionally—while building agency and disrupting systems of inequity.
What if staff wellness was treated as central to student success? In this conversation, we’ll explore how intentional structures for educator wellbeing can reduce burnout, strengthen school culture, and transform sustainability. Together, we’ll reimagine how schools can proactively support the adults who hold them up.
Concerned about climate change? Trying to combat student hopelessness and inspire them to take action for the future? Sign up! By working cross-curricularly, we can use examples from history on sustainable living, uncover everyday STEM practices of civilizations across the world, and build hopeful action for the future.
A practical case study of how a Philadelphia elementary school implemented a collaborative equity audit and staff-led equity team to build internal capacity, surface actionable data, and catalyze gradual schoolwide change.
We’ll reimagine classrooms as spaces where creativity is practiced daily—through risk-taking, curiosity, and problem-solving. We'll focus on the question: How do we give students not just tools, but the mindset to tackle complex problems with confidence, imagination, and resilience?
How do we meet this moment? What does showing up for one another look like in our schools and communities? How do we create connections that sustain us through difficult times?
A portrait of a graduate is a powerful symbol, but ultimately, it’s static. It offers a snapshot of who we hope students will become, but too often it stops short. It tells us what the end goal is, without showing us how to get there. What we need is a path.
Sometimes, it's really just the prompt! A lot of times, when class discussions go flat, we blame our personalities, the lethargy of "kids these days", or the curriculum. But often, if we had just asked the question a different way, changed a few words, we would have had success! This session is about sharing best strategies to ask the best questions.
Participate in envisioning a physical and virtual space that serves as an innovation hub, lab, library, and learning commons. It is a place, both physical and virtual, where students, teachers, and administrators experiment, try out, create, and test major ideas before they are implemented across the school. Imagine a space where books, media, and technology don’t just coexist—they ignite curiosity, experimentation, and bold new ideas. That is the essence of the Innovation Lab and Learning Commons (ILLC): the next stage in the metamorphosis of the school library.
How can we provide entry points into data analysis that support visual learners and enhance student curiosity and creativity? Both visual art and data tell stories, and students can use their skills of critical thinking and compassion to create visual narratives that also speak to their passion for activism and world-changing. The conversation will highlight an exciting and innovative seventh grade unit at the Rashi School. In this unit, students explored data about climate change from a variety of graphs and charts. This was connected to the 6th grade Science curriculum, and their Science teacher assisted in providing and vetting sources for the graphs. Students learned about the growing art form of data visualization, and created their own data art using a choice of fiber art, sculpture, and painting. They also wrote artist statements and presented their work in class.
Join South Bronx Community Charter High School as we share our journey as a mentor school in New York State’s PLAN pilot, transforming graduation pathways through performance-based, student-centered learning. This interactive session will explore how we built systems for real-world assessment, support peer schools, and center equity and youth voice. Walk away with tools, strategies, and inspiration to lead personalized, competency-based learning in your own school or district.
The pressures on educators (and on everyone) are significant in this moment. How do we care for ourselves so that we can continue to care for others?
When students leave your classroom, what is the story they tell when they go home to their families or when they talk to their friends? The "tea" they spill is connected to the intentionality that goes into the planning in your class.
This conversation engages educators in using The Moth’s storytelling guide to craft authentic narratives. Participants will practice sharing stories, apply portions of our structured feedback protocols, and listen to learners stories. The session fosters trust, empathy, and collaboration, equipping educators with tools to strengthen classroom and staff communities.
This conversation will engage educators in an interactive discussion about innovative approaches for teaching digital literacy and democratic participation using AI tools.
Transform how students approach professional relationships through structured networking activities. This interactive session equips educators with concrete tools to teach networking skills, build student confidence, and create pathways to real-world learning opportunities including internships, job shadows, and career exploration experiences.
There is a fascinating intersection between art and science. Let’s talk about it! We’ll be exploring Neuroarts—the science of how art and aesthetic experiences measurably impact the brain, body, and behavior. Learn how all forms of creative engagement benefit every student.
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