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Symposium 2025

Registration for the Aurora Institute Symposium 2025 is now open!

Join the premiere event of education innovators working to transform K-12 education at the Symposium on October 25-28, 2025 in New Orleans, LA. 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.

As an attendee, you’ll have access to inspirational keynote presentations and breakout sessions showcasing the field’s brightest ideas – providing an inside look at cutting edge approaches, strategies, and guidance.

Symposium Pricing

Early Bird: $1000 (Ends on July 31, 2025)
Regular: $1250 (Begins on August 1, 2025)
Presenters: $800

Saturday Pre-Conference Events

($500) Mastery Transcript Consortium Forum – From Vision to Action: Leveraging Community for Competency-Based Transformation

($420) Learner-Centered Collaborative Pre-Conference Workshop – Breaking up with Grades: Shifting Mindsets toward Competency-Based Assessment and Reporting to Improve Learning

Sunday Pre-Conference Workshops

($300) From Awareness to Action: Building Culturally Responsive Systems for Impactful Leadership and Learning

Karla Vigil, Equity Institute

($300) From Compliance to Commitment: Leading Change that Cultivates and Sustains Student-Centered Learning

Brian M. Stack, Jonathan G. Vander Els, V & S School Solutions

($300) Pedagogies of Voice (PoV) Fundamentals Workshop 

Marlo Bagsik, Co-author of Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency 

Building A Student-Centered High School Ecosystem – State Policy Roundtable

Lauren Bloomquist, Education Commission of the States; Ben Erwin, CCSSO; Jennifer Kabaker, Aurora Institute

Researchers Roundtable: Informing and Improving Personalized,  Competency-Based, Deeper Learning

Beth Holland, The Learning Accelerator; Dr. Jilliam Joe, Aurora Institute

 

Current Policymakers, K-12 Students, and Media please contact Zorana Vulevic at [email protected] for a special discount code.

If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Stamper at [email protected].