Event Agenda

Effective leaders live by this truth: If you want to solve a problem in your organization, examine the systems that cause it. In this collaborative, action-oriented pre-conference experience, we zero in on leaders’ primary role in elevating learning for all students as we investigate the systems of assessment and instruction. This session is designed to meet role-specific needs for creating lasting impact in schools, as we:

• Define leadership values that match your school’s vision and mission.
• Visually map how teaching and assessment systems affect student results.
• Plan how to distribute leadership to ensure consistent teaching practices.

Target Audience: Superintendents/Assistant Superintendents, Principals, Assistant Principals; all other district and building instructional leaders and/or aspiring leaders.
 

Are your students consistently engaged in learning? Let's explore how to captivate the diverse minds in your classroom, day-in and day-out, by deepening our instructional toolboxes. In this interactive pre-conference, you'll dive into engagement strategies that lay the foundation for learning based on high expectations, critical thinking, deep understanding, and real-world relevance. Join us for an immersive experience that places student learning at the heart of professional practice and reinvigorates our ideas around instructional excellence.

Audience: Classroom teachers; support staff; special education teachers; guidance counselors, principals and other instructional leaders.

Target Audience: Classroom teachers, support staff, special education teachers, guidance counselors, and more.
 

Cast your vision and intentionally design your plans to ensure literacy success with Into Reading, Into Literature, or Read 180 for the 2025–2026 School Year! In collaboration with HMH Program Experts, leadership teams will develop an implementation blueprint (“lit-print”) to manage every phase from Getting Started to classroom set-up, beginning of year assessments, and supporting teachers in being prepared for their first weeks of instruction. This special event is for those implementing in year 1 or refining their year 2 or 3 plan. Bring your team to this action-oriented workshop to design your plan and realize your vision, as you:

• Define and document specific literacy goals for teachers, students, and their families for the upcoming school year.
• Collaborate to design an implementation “lit-print” that bridges your detailed ideas with concrete actions.
• Deepen your instructional leadership impact as you chart a course for program success.

Target Audience: Curriculum Directors, Principals, Assistant Principals for Instruction and Assessment, and Grade-Level Leads.

Epic Educator
Centering Authentic Voices through Reading and Writing

Instruction and Leadership Coach
Critical Thinking Think Tank

Instruction and Leadership Coach
Closing Learning Gaps

Director of Communications & Academic Services, Port Jervis School District; Author
High Performance Under Pressure

Instruction and Leadership Coach
Leading Resiliently through Discomfort

NWEA Senior Professional Learning Strategy Consultant
Straight Facts on Dyslexia

Author and Instruction and Leadership Coach
Wholistic Data for the Whole Child