2025 Conference Objectives and Content Areas
Objectives
1. Engaging Instruction - Engage each student in every classroom through high-quality instruction that incorporates powerful literacy and mathematics practices and project-based assignments.
2. Aligned Curriculum - Ensure each student has equitable access to challenging academic and technical curricula that align instruction, assignments and assessments with grade-level readiness standards.
3. Career Pathways - Offer each student access to career pathways and programs of study that align with workforce needs and include opportunities to earn industry or postsecondary credentials and participate in work-based learning.
4. Systems of Support - Provide each student with the personalized career guidance, advisement, social and emotional supports, and extra help and accelerated learning opportunities needed to graduate ready for college and careers.
5. Leadership for Continuous Improvement - Engage the whole school community in promoting a culture of high expectations and continuously using data to identify problems of practice and develop action plans to solve those problems.
Content Areas
- CTE/Career Pathways
- Literacy
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
- Classroom management
- Continuous improvement process / networks
- Technology in Education
- Educational leadership
- Expanding Access
- Coaching
- Guidance and advisement
- Online, blended or hybrid teaching and learning
- Personalized learning
- Project- or problem-based learning
- Rural education issues
- Social-emotional learning
- Special education
- STEM
- Teacher collaboration
- Teacher / principal preparation and development
- Urban education issues
- Art/Other Electives
- ELA
- English Learner