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From coast to coast and north to south, from summits to symposiums — opportunities to stay current on the latest trends in education are never in short supply. In addition to inspiring keynotes and informative breakout sessions, most educational conferences are also a great opportunity to do some networking with fellow educators.
That’s why we’ve compiled this directory listing some of the top education conferences you may wish to consider attending. Perhaps there’s one near you; or perhaps the time is right for an educational road trip!
*Our goal is to provide helpful information on each of the top education-focused conferences, but if you’re aware of a worthy event that’s not listed here, don’t hesitate to let us know.
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Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV), the annual ASU+ GSV Summit connects leading minds focused on transforming society and business around learning and work. Our north star is that ALL people have equal access to the future.
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Teaching Students to Think, Create, Innovate, Learn, and Adapt for an Age of Adversity and AI
In the wake of the pandemic, adversity, and the rise in automation, students are anxious about their future. A 2023 Junior Achievement Survey found 66 percent of teens are anxious about finding a job in the future due to artificial intelligence. A 2023 Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum found that companies expect that 42% of their business tasks will be automated and expect to eliminate 83 million positions due to automation by 2027. The Jobs Report also found that analytical and creative thinking will be the most important skills needed by workers in 2023, along with resilience, flexibility and agility, curiosity, and lifelong learning. Brain and psychological research has discovered these skills can be taught and that being resilient is important for both creativity and curiosity. Cognitive Scientist Scott Barry Kaufman has found that adversity and trauma can lead to creative growth and that persistence and curiosity can predict creative achievement.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring neuroscientists, psychologists, researchers, and educators together to explore the science of our unique brains; what makes us different from machines; and how to develop our human skills, creativity, talents, and potential to compete in an automation age. Discover ways to promote different kinds of thinking and smarts; creativity and innovation; curiosity; resilience; agility and adaptability; and life-long learning. Discover ways to create a more human-focused education; appreciate the strengths of the gifted, less advantaged, and neurodiverse; and develop the skills and potential in all students for school, life, and future job success.
This conference will be presented as a hybrid conference. You can either attend in person or participate virtually. Click here for more details.
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The 2024 4th International Conference on Education Development and Studies (ICEDS 2024) will be in Cambridge, UK during 24-26 April 2024. The ICEDS is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of education. The ICEDS promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education, aiming. to build strong networks of leading researchers and pioneers in education worldwide. Furthermore, ICEDS will provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research and the evolution of pedagogy. We welcome all the researchers, students, scholars and professionals in the related fields to attend the conference.
ICEDS invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All papers submitted for possible presentation at ICEDS and for publication in the proceedings are subjected to a rigorous, double-blind, peer review process.
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Lilly-Austin is part of the overall Lilly Conference Series. For nearly 40 years, Lilly Conferences have provided opportunities for the presentation of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Our participants represent educators at all stages in their academic careers in nearly every discipline found in higher education. We invite those who share an interest in improving student learning to join us at Lilly-Austin to exchange ideas and build a repertoire of skills that can be put to immediate use.
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NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the world’s largest association dedicated to international education and exchange, invites you to the NAFSA 2024 Annual Conference & Expo. Be a part of the most diverse and comprehensive global event attended by professionals from across the field. We are pleased to welcome you to our most exciting conference ever! Join us in New Orleans, LA from May 28 to 31, 2023.
International educators from all corners of the world will gather at NAFSA 2024 to discover the latest innovations, new strategies, and best practices. Establish and build upon your institutional partnerships as we unite to foster resilience, renewal, and community. Attend sessions developed by your peers from international education leaders and changemakers across the globe. Connect with fellow attendees and build a network essential to your professional success.
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Join us for the Innovative Schools Summit Nashville on June 19-23, 2024. Network with fellow educators and learn from nationally recognized speakers who share their experiences and proven strategies to help you succeed in the classroom and in your career. The Nashville Summit features access to 4 Education Conferences for the Price of One:
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Transformation in education is achieved through purposeful, consistent actions, driven by a clear vision of what’s best for students. At Model Schools Conference, presented by The Center for Model Schools, we showcase districts, schools, and educators who have achieved success, showing the way to replicable results. Join us in 2024 for our 32nd year of connecting student-focused educators.
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Designed by educators for educators, and empowers attendees to connect with the resources, knowledge, and community they need to implement innovative and effective leadership and instruction.
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The Online Teaching Conference is a premier gathering of faculty, staff, and administrators who are leading the way in developing innovative and effective online education. As an inter-segmental conference focused on curriculum, pedagogy and technology to improve online instruction, learning, and student success, the Online Teaching Conference is an opportunity for educators to network with colleagues, connect, share knowledge, impart and receive best practices, and develop professionally.
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The National Charter Schools Conference (NCSC) by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is where the movement meets as the largest national gathering of educators, advocates, and leaders in the charter community. It is where you connect with people, resources, and expertise that empowers and inspires your work. With nationally recognized experts, content curated specially for the sector, and a focus on collaboration, NCSC offers the best learning experience for those shaping K-12 education.
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Join us for the Innovative Schools Summit Las Vegas on July 8-12, 2024. Network with fellow educators and learn from nationally recognized speakers who share their experiences and proven strategies to help you succeed in the classroom and in your career.
The Las Vegas Summit features access to 4 education conferences for the price of one, including:
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Our Get Your Teach On Leadership and Content Development team has worked to create an engaging and transformational educator professional development experience that aligns directly with the needs of schools and teachers across the country by helping educators develop consistent best instructional practices and processes from start to finish to accelerate student learning. These evidence and research-based best practices, strategies, and techniques will directly impact overall educator effectiveness and student achievement and transform instruction and student learning like never before.
What’s Included:
- Four days of content
- Inspiring Keynotes
- Hands-on Workshops
- GYTO Pre-Game Celebration
- Free Swag
- Certificate for 24 PD Hours
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The Canada International Conference on Education (CICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. Over the past decade, CICE has developed strong networks of leading researchers and pioneers in education worldwide.
The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy.
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Join us for the Innovative Schools Summit San Antonio on July, 25 – July, 28 2024. Network with fellow educators and learn from nationally recognized speakers who share their experiences and proven strategies to help you succeed in the classroom and in your career. The San Antonio Summit features access to 4 education conferences for the price of one, including:
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Our conference, with a rich tradition of celebrating research on teaching and learning, will be re-branded as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summit to better reflect the terminology of the field. The SoTL Summit will adopt an intentionally developmental focus Our conference, formerly known as the Research on Teaching and Learning Summit, has a rich tradition of celebrating research on teaching and learning. Starting in 2021, the Summit was rebranded as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summit to better reflect the terminology of the field. The SoTL Summit has adopted an intentionally developmental focus to help participants at all levels of SoTL experience grow as teacher-scholars.
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Connect with thousands of mathematics education professionals at the NCTM 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition—September 25-28 in Chicago,IL. As an attendee, you’ll discover opportunities, technologies, and creative ideas that are working in classrooms around the country.
Guided by the program theme Creating Spaces for Change Through Community: It Starts With You, the 2024 NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition will lay a strong foundation for the upcoming school year and beyond, and focus on building and learning together.
Don’t miss this inspiring opportunity to change individually, bring change back to your school, and build deeper connections in your larger community. This year’s conference will help guide your path with a new presentation format—A Practice Session—focused on putting the ideas that are learned into practice, and extend the focus beyond the classroom to include ideas from the Catalyzing Change series and conversations with American Lawmakers.
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Bett Asia gathers over 2000 senior leaders in education technology in Southeast Asia and beyond
Our mission is to accelerate the progress of technology in education and positively impact the experience and lives of teachers and learners.
Educators, policy makers, EdTechs, and industry changemakers connect and collaborate at Bett Asia in an intimate and premium setting. The seniority level of this event is what makes Bett Asia a place like no other.
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Wisdom is a way of perceiving, contemplating, and being in the world that takes into consideration a vast array of global, cultural, and historical perspectives and ways of knowing. Given our ongoing emergence from a global pandemic, alongside the persistence of pressing social and racial justice issues and climate change, we seek proposals that embody wisdom as a merging of knowledge, heart, and action. We invite you to join us in Louisville as we consider the roles and expressions of wisdom in contemporary education. Proposals on topics related to teaching, curriculum, evaluation, and educational theory and research are also welcome.
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For nearly 40 years, Lilly Conferences have provided opportunities for the presentation of For 40 years, ITLC Lilly Conferences have provided opportunities for the presentation of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Conference participants are made up of faculty and administrators at various stages in their academic careers from across the United States, representing nearly every discipline found in higher education. We always offer a variety of sessions so that participants can match their learning preference to the presentation formats: 20- and 40-minute concurrent sessions, traditional plenary addresses, roundtable discussions, and poster sessions. Conference presentations are selected through a blind peer-review process.
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The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference connects the best thinkers in higher education technology.
This is THE event where professionals and technology providers from around the world gather to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges. It’s the largest gathering of your peers…people you can relate to, learn from, and stay connected to throughout the year.
Online: 13-14 November, 2024
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Join us at Closing The Gap and be part of a community of passionate and empowered The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies. The conference week is designed to dig deeper into critical areas that have the power, when implemented strategically, to transform your classroom, your school, your district, your practice. When you start thinking differently about how to reach ALL students, how to infuse technology into learning, how to leverage AT strategies in all areas – then we begin to transform these areas and ultimately increase achievement and independence.
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The Assessment Institute in Indianapolis is the nation’s oldest and largest event focused on assessing and improving higher education.
Hosted by the Center for Leading Improvements in Higher Education at IUPUI, the Assessment Institute is designed to provide opportunities for (1) individuals and campus teams new to higher education assessment and improvement to acquire fundamental knowledge about the field; (2) individuals who have worked as leaders in assessment and improvement to share and extend their knowledge and skills; and (3) those interested in assessment and improvement at any level or in any collegiate context to establish networks that serve as sources of support and expertise beyond the dates of the Institute.
Please plan to be with us in-person at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown Hotel in October 2024! If you would like to be included in our mailing list, please click here.
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ISSOTL and Utrecht University proudly welcome the SoTL community to Utrecht, the Netherlands for ISSOTL24. Join the community at the Railway Museum from October 28-31, 2024. With your active contribution, we hope to establish an inspiring programme around the conference theme Context Matters.
The conference will be in-person and will feature pre-conference workshops, thought-provoking plenary speakers, ample room to present and discuss scholarly work, inspirational workshops, energizing city walks and fun fringe sessions.
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Meet with thousands of social studies educators, administrators, and professionals from across the country to inspire your usage of best practices and rejuvenate with others in the social studies profession.
The 103rd NCSS Annual Conference will address the sub-themes of:
- Inclusive Social Studies: Who Are We?
- Starting at Home: Social Studies is Local—Where Are We?
- Collaboration in Social Studies: Building Partnerships
- Social Studies: Transcending Borders & Seeking Connections
- The Future of Social Studies—What’s Next?
You will leave the conference with strong strategies for delivering instruction that engages students, the best ways to advocate for the most pressing issues of social studies education, and a network of colleagues to support you throughout the year.
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Join the field’s largest gathering of education innovators working to transform K-12 education. Stay for the community, lessons about education innovation from the field, and the latest research and policy to support education transformation. Leave equipped to take immediate action in advancing next-generation learning designs.
The Aurora Institute Symposium is the field’s largest gathering of education innovators working to transform K-12 education. At the Symposium, you’ll find attendees from across the education innovation space who are pushing for learning to happen outside of traditional school walls, and to be more personalized, competency-based, and future-focused. The Symposium is the premiere event for learning about next-generation learning models, anytime, anywhere learning, the latest policy developments to enable the future, research and best practices around innovations, and trends around future-focused education transformation.
At the Aurora Institute Symposium 2024, you’ll find a community of practice that is reimagining K-12 education systems around the globe. The sessions and keynotes will showcase the field’s brightest ideas and provide an inside look at cutting-edge approaches, strategies, and guidance. The Symposium inspires attendees, equips them with new knowledge and best practices, and sparks action by inspiring leaders to implement new learning designs.
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AAC&U and its Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) invite proposals for the annual Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference, a seven-star professional development experience that advances undergraduate STEM education reform by providing a national platform for the diverse perspectives and experiences of STEM faculty, particularly those from historically marginalized groups and institutions, to be inserted into national STEM reform discourse. This conference offers attendees a chance to disseminate curricular innovations, build community, co-learn, and gain capacity for manipulating the many levers of change that can positively influence institutional and individual transformation.
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The International Leadership Association‘s Global Conference is the premier event for leaders and leadership researchers, educators, and development professionals from around the globe. ILA’s cross-sector, multidisciplinary conference is the go-to place to:
- Make career-advancing professional connections;
- Learn about new leadership research;
- Share your own experience, wisdom, and best practices;
- Discover new tools, tactics, and takeaways; and
- Get re-energized!
At ILA’s Global Conference, you will meet and engage with experts and influencers whose work inspires you — successful business executives and public leaders, thought-provoking authors and researchers, experienced educators, game-changing coaches, and organizational development professionals.
Attend the conference YOUR way! Choose to attend online only or online AND in Vancouver with our all-access pass.
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ExcelinEd’s annual National Summit on Education is the nation’s premier gathering of education policymakers, practitioners and advocates. Each year, more than a thousand state and national leaders convene for the annual event, providing an unparalleled forum for exchanging results-based solutions and strategies that can shape public policy so critical to transforming education. This unique conference serves as a catalyst for energizing and accelerating education improvements across the nation.
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The 48th annual POD Network conference envisions what the future of educational development might look like amid rapid changes in our lives, institutions, and societies. As educational developers, we are in a unique position to influence the success of faculty, students, institutions, and our own programs. By seeing our work through these multiple lenses, we seek a more holistic view of how educational development (see POD definition of Educational Development) can drive and facilitate the ongoing pursuit of equity in higher education.
We’re bringing back the two conference venues, one in Pittsburgh and one online, with some improvements. We heard your feedback and are incorporating it into this year’s POD Network Conference. We look forward to creating a conference experience to reflect our shared vision of educational development.
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As we approach our 50th year as an association whose members study higher education, and as we move to enact our association’s strategic goals, it’s fitting to take time to examine the many political forces and authorities that bear upon contemporary higher education. Challenges to higher education by social, political, and economic forces have always been a staple feature of the history of higher education, and as researchers, we have made empirical how those politics have impacted the purposes and practices of higher education.
At our 2024 annual conference, let’s consider, debate, and examine the many different ways in which political forces have and will engineer higher education’s purposes and practices. How can our empirical scrutiny address political forces that impact how we educate and serve students; or how we protect academic freedom or the livelihood of staff; or how we can inform legislation on access, affordability, and research integrity? And unquestionably, much, much more.
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The NCTE Annual Convention is the premier annual event for English language arts and literacy educators. Learn from experts and participate in various sessions on a range of topics that will inspire your teaching. Meet educators from around the country and enjoy social and cultural events, including a book fair and awards ceremony. Share your challenges and victories with a community of English language professionals who will support your work into the future. Don’t miss this chance to communicate, collaborate, and create with fellow English language arts teachers and educators at the NCTE Annual Convention in Columbus, Ohio.
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The Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching is one of the nation’s most renowned conferences presenting the scholarship of teaching and learning. Since 1981, teacher-scholars from across the U.S. and internationally have gathered the weekend before Thanksgiving to share innovative pedagogies and discuss questions, challenges, and insights about teaching and learning.
The Lilly Conference welcomes all participants who share an interest in improving college teaching through evidence-based practices, including faculty and administrators at universities, four-year colleges, and two-year colleges who wish to increase student learning through effective teaching, promote interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and facilitate communication among faculty about their classroom and online experiences.
The Conference has become a teaching retreat. Deans and chief academic officers often support the attendance of faculty teams at Lilly as recognition for outstanding faculty and for faculty development, and institutions planning Teaching and Learning Centers have found the Conference an effective way to meet and “scout” exceptional teacher-scholars. Miami University, with its timeless Georgian architecture and beautiful wooded areas, makes an attractive location for learning.
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Prepare to be inspired and enlightened during the opening and closing general sessions at this year’s Convention. The ACTFL Convention and World Languages Expo is the premiere event for world language educators. Join 7,000 colleagues from the entire U.S. and over 65 countries for hundreds of educational and inspirational sessions. Visit with over 200 exhibitors for the latest publications, technology, and information.
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Online Educa Berlin (OEB) is the annual global, cross-sector conference and exhibition on digital learning and training. The event has a unique focus, bringing you to the forefront of developments in learning technology.
Overall 2024 Theme: The Learning Futures We Choose
Will we decide the future we want for ourselves? Or will we be pushed into a dystopian system in which we have no say? Will we shape the future of learning or will Big Tech shape it for us? Will we control recent developments in technology or will they control us? Who will control the learning of the future? Are we enhancing our world or creating a new system in which we have no say? Will technology, data and AI decide our future for us? Or will technology help us to redefine the future of learning?
As humanity faces up to the biggest challenges of the tech revolution, OEB 2024 leads the discussion about how we can use technological change to shape the future of learning. A future that is created by us, not by machines.
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For almost 50 years, The National Future of Education Technology ® Conference has brought together educators, administrators, and technology experts to discuss the latest advancements in education technology. The content presented at FETC ® is thoughtfully curated to provide professionals with actionable insights on what technology solutions to implement in their schools and districts. FETC is the comprehensive source for education technology solutions, bringing together the best and brightest in the edtech community for a collaborative and enjoyable exploration of pressing issues, new technologies, and best practices.
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Get Your Teach On is your all-access pass to creating magic in your schools and classrooms. It’s not just a professional development conference, it’s an educational EXPERIENCE!
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Our Get Your Teach On Leadership and Content Development team has worked to create an engaging and transformational educator professional development experience that aligns directly with the needs of schools and teachers across the country by helping educators develop consistent best instructional practices and processes from start to finish to accelerate student learning. These evidence and research-based best practices, strategies, and techniques will directly impact overall educator effectiveness and student achievement and transform instruction and student learning like never before.
Teachers: Choose Your Experience
Choose your grade level for relevant sessions and content just for you! We offer content for Pre-K through 6th Grade! Plus, breakout sessions for Special Education!
Leaders: Get Your Lead On
Join award-winning principals and school administrators for our LEAD ON strand and attend sessions designed just for administrators and aspiring administrators!
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Bett UK is a truly global meeting place for the EdTech community. Join 30,000+ educators and change-makers for three inspiring days of cutting-edge EdTech content, networking and product discovery.
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The pandemic, a distinctly global challenge, served as a reminder of one of higher education’s public purposes: to improve society. Constructive engagement with significant, transnational problems that require global cooperation positions higher education institutions to address issues that have local and international implications. By centering global learning—integrating it across the disciplines, making it more accessible to all students, and connecting it to career readiness—colleges and universities can help ensure that the next generation of educators, researchers, community members, and leaders at all levels will recognize the local connections in global challenges and that they are well prepared for intentional, ethical global collaboration.
The 2024 Conference on Global Learning will demonstrate the power of global learning to prepare students, faculty, and staff to address global challenges. Conference sessions will focus on
- Ensuring all students participate in global learning;
- Making the case for global learning for all disciplines and majors;
- Advancing collaborative research to address global challenges;
- Preparing educators to design, assess, and implement global learning;
- Focusing on global engagement in local and international settings;
- Defining and framing global learning to meet global challenges;
- Examining the alignment of campus inclusion efforts with global learning;
- Interrogating and embedding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
- Exploring belonging for international students with recognition of their individuality and intersectional identities.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) invites students, educators, administrators, community members, and policymakers to join us for these action-oriented, forward-thinking conversations about Meeting Global Challenges.
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LitCon: National K-8 Literacy & Reading Recovery Conference is the homecoming of leaders in childhood literacy! Attendees will be among the first to know about current research findings, critical news, and leading practices in K-8 literacy education that go beyond theory to actual practice. Engage in LitCon to tap exclusive resources and build special bonds to move childhood literacy and Reading Recovery forward.
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Want to explore all the brilliant and creative new ways technology, research, pedagogy, ideas – educators – improve learning, solve problems, and overcome obstacles? .
With 800+ sessions, 450+ leading exhibitors, and powerful storytellers, come revel in new discoveries at TCEA’s Convention & Exposition. And feel the rush of exploration in one of the most vibrant and creative cities in the U.S.– Austin, Texas.
It’s five days of revolutionary learning that leads to lasting impact and incredible outcomes. You don’t want to miss it.
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The conference showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today. Sessions address disciplinary and interdisciplinary instructional strategies, outcomes, and research. Each year we welcome over 500 faculty and instructors in Higher Education dedicated to teaching excellence.
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Join us for the Innovative Schools Summit New York on February 12 – February 15, 2025. Network with fellow educators and learn from nationally recognized speakers who share their experiences and proven strategies to help you succeed in the classroom and in your career.
Hosted by AccuTrain in association with Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Western Suffolk BOCES and Nassau BOCES.
The New York Summit features access to 4 education conferences for the price of one.
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IDEAcon isn’t just a conference; IDEAcon is an experience.
From daily thought leaders in the areas of education and DEI and Accessibility who represent innovative practices both locally and across the country to hundreds of sessions that allow you to truly customize your IDEAcon experience based on your own comfort level and curiosity with idea/skills/tools to evening social events that truly make you feel like you’re part of the IDEA family, IDEAcon is a conference you won’t forget, for all the right reasons.
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The National ESEA Conference is intentionally aimed at coordination among federal education programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and other federal programs.
Integrate with nationally recognized education leaders and experts; presentations offer content you can’t find anywhere else
- More than 130 sessions from today’s leading education experts deliver timely, impactful information enriched by personal interactions among attendees and presenters
- Four dynamic, not-to-miss keynote speakers
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Join us at the Oregon Convention Center or virtually as we unite to address a shared goal – how to best meet the needs of disadvantaged students.
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The New Educator Weekend (NEW) is a new conference for new CTA members in their first three years in the profession. The conference has everything that educators need to be successful in their first years of teaching, including sessions about classroom management, creating engaging classrooms, lesson plans and ideas, connecting with your union, student loan forgiveness information, member benefits, project grants and more.
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DLAC celebrates online, blended, and digital learning practitioners and providers, and helps educators advance their schools, districts, and programs to their next attainable level.
Digital tools and resources aren’t silver bullets that magically transform education, but online learning, blended learning, and the use of technology can increase student opportunities and improve student outcomes when developed by thoughtful school leaders and implemented by effective teachers.
DLAC celebrates K-12 digital learning practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. We invite you to join us to learn from each other, and share best (and worst!) practices. Our sessions are shorter, livelier, and more interactive than most conferences, creating a high-energy gathering built on sharing and conversations.