11:00-11:45 AM ET | OPENING KEYNOTE PLENARY
Building a Brighter Tomorrow: Redesigning Education and Innovating Systems to Enable Each Child to Thrive https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82141255678
Meeting the Moment to Build a Better Future https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82141255678
12:00-1:00 PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- A Journey – Lessons About Student Learning During COVID-19 and Implications for Current Practice https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83779802725
- Aligning Systems Change in Three Urban Districts – Rethinking the District Role in Leading for Student Agency https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86141011897
- Centering Young People in Pathways Systems Change https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89739759567
- Personalizing State-Wide Transformation https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87683616234
- Taking an Ecosystem Approach to Meeting the Diverse Needs of Learners in Response to COVID-19 and Beyond https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82023120179
1:15-2:15 PM ET | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Connections at the Center: Innovative Approaches to Relationship-Centered School Designs https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89252884770
- Equity-Seeking Transformation as a Core COVID-19 Recovery Strategy https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86763484196
- One Good Question: How Three New School Models Shifted from Redesign to COVID-19 Implementation https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83957553648
- Ready for the Challenge: How Student-Centered Schools Have Innovated, Adapted, and Gauged their Success in a Global Pandemic https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581188078
- Reimagining Washington’s Education System Through Mastery-Based Learning and a Profile of a Graduate https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89427988813
- The Future of Accountability: Learning Lessons from Local Accountability Pilots to Inform Transformational Change https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83111891586
- Transformative Learning Experiences in Post-COVID-19 School: Lessons from an Alternative School on Re-Engaging Youth in their Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89875783903
2:30-3:30 PM ET | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Designing a Personalized, Competency-Based Learning System of Professional Learning: Placing Collaboration, Flexibility, and a Bias Towards Action at the Core https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89987776880
- Elevating Student Experiences to Build Equitable Learning Environments and Outcomes Together: Learn How to Utilize a Free Research-Based Survey to Highlight and Support 6th-12th Grade Student Voices https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83939733323
- Equitable Access to Learning through Competency-Based School Choice Models https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83469949382
- From Standards-Based to Competency-Based Learning: One District’s PK-12 Story https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87958054738
- Our Journey to Equitable Community Engagement in Springfield https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81254721455
- Supporting All Teachers as Teachers of English Learners: A Micro-Credential, Competency-Based Approach to Teacher Professional Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88662612750
- Upgrading Our Educators’ Job Descriptions for Student-Centered Success: Bringing the Portrait of a Future Educator to Life https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83191611105
- Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85055411802
3:40-4:00 PM ET | TWENTY-MINUTE POWER SESSIONS AND PROGRAMS TO WATCH
- Colorado’s Graduation Guidelines: An Implementation Study https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81518986215
- Diversifying the Teaching Profession through AmeriCorps Service: City Year’s Teacher Pathway Initiative https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84004207284
- Leveraging Integrated and Holistic Learning Solutions to Support Literacy https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85725484115
- Leveraging Open System Leadership to Create Equitable Pathways with Authentic Shared Ownership – and Redefined Roles – Across K-12, Higher Education, Workforce, and Community Partners https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82423353738
- Reimagining Civic Education Through Museum and Community-Based Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81350047622
- #RethinkCurriculum: A Model That Increases Learners’ Engagement and Success with High-Quality, Culturally-Relevant, Competency-Based Learning Experiences https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82424168359
- Shovel the Ramp Not the Stairs: Turning Inequality into Inclusive Instruction https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82589536783
- Speak Truth to Power: Action Research of Graduation Pathways https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88191073968
- The Student Experience Survey: Actionable Data Connected to Culturally Responsive Teaching https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85679596238
- Whole-Child Design: How To Use The Science of Learning and Development to Redesign Classrooms, Schools, and Systems and Accelerate Healthy Development, Learning, and Thriving https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87373861912
Tuesday
October 26, 2021
11:00-11:45 AM ET | KEYNOTE PLENARY
Transforming Toward Equity-Centered, Whole-Child Personalized Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87215541767
12:00-1:00 PM ET | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Combating the Idea of Learning Loss: Reframing Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89469437819
- Demonstrating Evidence of Learning – Anytime, Anywhere – Spotlighting State Efforts to Leverage This Unprecedented Opportunity to Dismantle the Legacy of Seat-Time https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84059354318
- From Chaos to Sustained Innovation – Leveraging Partnerships to Rethink Barriers and Enable New Learning, Relevance, and Engagement https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85025937119
- It’s Up to Us to Make Competency-Based Education Culturally Responsive and Sustaining https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82522663317
- Possible, Practical, and Actionable: Breaking Down the Artificial Silos Between Education and Community https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81407470042
- Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89780474615
1:15-2:15 PM ET | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- 24/7 Professional Growth: How to Completely Flip Professional Learning with Component-Based Learning through Instructional Design https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84378116439
- Ambitious Teaching and Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82677342868
- Calling the Equitable Open System into Existence: How Colorado School Districts Partnered with their Students, Families, and Community Members to Create DEI Taskforces to Move from Talk… to Action https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85963491428
- Competency-Based Education: Getting Started with Learner-Centered Practice and an Equity Lens https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82813316833
- Empowering Online and Blended Programs to Customize Legally Sound Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities, Especially in a Post-COVID-19 World https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84129781952
- Excellence through Micro-Credentials: Lessons from Juab Teacher Leadership https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81475797697
- Hearts, Hands, and Minds: Engaging Students in Performance-Based Assessments that Emphasize Social Justice and Social-Emotional Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81589324471
- Shields Elementary: The Story of a District-Run Texas School that Used Community Redesign Process to Move Toward Personalized Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83901804912
- Stopping Learning Loss in Deprived Communities by Treating Daily Toxic Stress: A Mental Health/Trauma-Informed Model https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85060066917
- The Harbor Freight Fellows Initiative – A New Form of Apprenticing to Support Youth Entering the Trades https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89075932740
2:30-2:40 PM ET | TEN-MINUTE IGNITE SESSIONS
- How Competency-Based Education Helps Address Some of the Inequities Baked into the K-12 Education System https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82796613142
- How Schools Can Help Cultivate Learner Identity and Agency https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84945272780
- Key Principles for Project-Based Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89876204965
- How States Are Redefining Success Using a Profile of a Graduate https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967540598
Wednesday
October 27, 2021
11:00-11:45 AM ET | KEYNOTE PLENARY
Former Students: Where Are They Now? https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87605611618
12:00-1:00 PM ET | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Cultivating Student Identity and Purpose through Connectedness: Innovative Approaches to Relationship-Centered School Designs https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86511472698
- Liberatory Co-Creation with Families, Learners, and Communities https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83487889839
- Post-Pandemic Imperative: Living into a New Future that’s Equitable, Community-Based, and Learner-Centered https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81765483625
- Prioritizing Learning Systems During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82299862873
- The Reciprocity Project: Schools as the Missed Opportunity for Community Development https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86249057111
- Connections Before Content: The Importance of Prioritizing Student Relationships https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83073795792
1:15-1:35 PM ET | TWENTY-MINUTE POWER SESSIONS AND PROGRAMS TO WATCH
- Connect2Learn: Identifying Dimensions of Digital Inequity and Responding with a Multi-Layered Approach that Responds to Students’ Needs and Alters the Community’s Digital Ecosystem https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85995031660
- Emerging Impact Data: Measuring Adult Development to Support Competency-Based Learning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81762513498
- How Laboratory School Communities Can Power Human-Centered Design and Inclusive Innovation https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82241103144
- Integrated Systems of Support: How To Design Equitable School Environments that Meet Students’ Individual Needs Through a Holistic Approach https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87392460890
- Progress to Agency: Using Progressions to Create Learner-Centered Classrooms https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89357003871
- Students Speak: Aligning Employment Pathways to Graduate Profiles https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83929562384
- What Will We Bring With Us? Practice Innovations towards Personalization and Equity during COVID-19 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85300104874
- Young People: The Missing Voice for School Reopenings https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81535382012
1:45-2:45 PM ET | CLOSING STUDENT PANEL KEYNOTE
The Time is Now: Students Take the Driver’s Seat to Share Reflections on the Past to Inform Innovative, Student-Centered Education Transformation for the Future https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85948165218
Please Note: All times are in the Eastern Time Zone.