Conversations
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.