What if the key to higher achievement isn’t more pressure—but more connection?
This engaging session explores the powerful link between students’ social-emotional well-being and academic success. Grounded in research and real-world practice, participants will examine how emotional safety, positive relationships, and intentional “love-first” leadership create classrooms where students thrive.
Through interactive activities like relationship mapping, case studies, and strategy modeling, attendees will gain practical tools to build emotionally safe, high-expectation learning environments. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to increase engagement, reduce behavioral challenges, and strengthen school culture—ready to immediately apply what they’ve learned.
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Have you ever felt stuck in a rut with the way you run your classroom? You're not alone. It is easy to simply run on auto-pilot with the ever growing and looming to-do lists we seem to accumulate in education. If you are looking for some fresh ideas to switch up your routines and increase engagement, we invite you to join us for a spark session where we will share techniques and strategies we learned from some well known educators at the Elevate Your Classroom Conference in June 2025. Attendees will leave with ideas to try in the coming school year as well as a list of resources that have helped us bring more energy into our daily lessons.
The purpose of the session will be to share ways that classroom teachers have structured their reading blocks and designed experiences to engage reluctant upper elementary readers. Intended to increase a love of reading in students who may typically be hard to reach, this session will showcase proven methods that promote student choice. Participants will learn about how to entice readers to try new genres, encourage peer conversation about texts, develop morphological vocabulary skills, and think deeply about texts and their authors. A variety of culminating projects and their rubrics will be shared with participants.
Ever feel like data around usage of edtech tools in your district/school feels like a ""speed camera"" that tells you when something went wrong or how fast a student was moving but doesn't truly capture the quality of the drive? To truly impact student growth, we must shift our perspective and treat analytics as a real-time Instructional GPS. This session moves beyond simple ""login counts"" to show how data can provide real-time turn-by-turn directions for better teaching and learning and what's on the horizon for this through the rise of generative A.I..
We will explore how to navigate research-based metrics that measure whether an edtech tool is actually helping students learn, not just keeping them busy. We will also look at ""Compass Tools""—qualitative ways for administrators, coaches, and teachers to observe classroom tech use and see if it’s headed in the right direction. Finally, we will look toward the horizon to discuss how the next decade of data will help us predict roadblocks before students hit them, ensuring every learner not only reaches their destination, but continues new journeys.
