EduCon 2026Alternative Approaches for Success of any Student
Interactive discussion centered on innovations in engagement and academic supports for Opportunity Youth and students as learned from their success in alternative settings.
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!
Beyond Compliance: Building Equitable Discipline Systems That Support Growth
How can schools design discipline systems that are equitable, restorative, and empowering? Join a conversation about moving beyond compliance to practices that build belonging, strengthen relationships, and promote student growth.
Critical Creativity for Leadership & Change Making
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.
How Does This Work, and Why Does It Work This Way?
Descriptions of how things work are often made more complex than they need to be. Let's cut through the noise.
Level Up Literacy: Empowering Advanced Readers with Self-Paced, Engaging, and Cross-Content Novel Studies in Early Grades
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.
Purpose Driven Middle School
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.
Swords to Ploughshares: De-personalizing computing
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
Teaching Towards What Lasts in the Age of AI
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.
The Time Sensitive Question: What is the Future of Secondary School Design?
Through a structured conversational activity, participants will discuss and debate the attributes and impact of the future learner, the future creator(s) of educational experiences, and the future foundational content and skills on the design and sustainability of the K-12 public education experience.
