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ASCD's Conference on Teaching Excellence: Pathways to Equity

Understanding the full impact of inequities is the first step to creating healthy environments, supportive schools, and targeted instruction that helps all students engage in meaningful opportunities to expand their learning and heighten their achievement. Attend the 2018 Conference on Teaching Excellence for proven solutions, game-changing ideas, and the tools you need to create pathways to equity for all.

2018 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence

June 29–July 1, 2018 | Grapevine, Texas

(Dallas metropolitan area)

Thank you!

Thank you for joining us in Grapevine, Texas for the 2018 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence.

Check back in January for information about the 2019 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence, which will be held June 25–27, in Orlando, Florida.

Equity for All

Each and every student needs and deserves a safe, challenging, and supportive learning environment—especially students who have special needs or cultural or language differences, live in poverty, or are historically underrepresented in specific professions.

The ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence: Pathways to Equity is a "learn and do" conference that will help educators:

  • Experience interactive learning guided by expert practitioners and innovative action planning.
  • Connect and share promising practices with educators and experience the groundbreaking, teacher-led work that is happening in states, districts, and schools across the country.
  • Design concrete action plans, ideas, practices, and tools that will equip you to develop immediate actions to solve for the most pressing problems in your classrooms, schools and/or districts.

Transformative Learning Opportunities

Attendees start each day with an inspiring keynote address and then immerse themselves in the important work of developing and executing a comprehensive equity action plan and goals tied to a problem of practice from one of four equity pathways:

  • Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM): Students of color and girls continue to be underrepresented in these fields of study and work. Rigorous, engaging STEAM-based learning advances equity for all.
  • Community and Family Engagement: Leveraging family and community strengths supports the education and development of the whole child—every day and year-round.
  • Underserved Populations (EL, SPED, DACA, Families in Poverty, Trauma): Many children require specific instructional supports to reach their full potential, such as children living in poverty, those with disabilities, or who are English Language Learners, and/or are living in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy.
  • Teacher Leadership: Empowered educators use their talents, passions, and interests to positively influence students' learning, transform the profession, and inform change at the school, district, state, and national levels.

Each action plan will be exhibited on the final day of the conference so that constructive feedback will be given to each participant from their professional peers and the expert facilitators in attendance.

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Engage with Colleagues and Experts

A team of content experts and professional peers are ready to guide and support attendees through hands-on collaboration, on-the-spot problem solving, and creating a concrete action plan to ensure equity for every student.

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General Sessions

Friday

Steve Constantino

Engage Every Family: Five Simple Principles

Noted author, speaker, and international family engagement practitioner Steve Constantino will take you on a journey through the five principles of effective family engagement.

Saturday

Tamir Harper

A Focus on Equity and Social Justice

Tamir Harper, student and education advocate, will lead a courageous and uncomfortable discussion about equity and social justice in education.

Sunday

David Garibaldi

Paint, Passion, and Purpose

Witness performance painter David Garibaldi use a unique combination of paint and music to create art that inspires both passion and purpose.

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Keynote Luncheons

Friday, June 29
12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.

Kwame Simmons From Average to Elite

Kwame Simmons, The Simmons Advantage, Southfield, MI

This keynote speech will inspire participants to motivate students and teachers to take the leap from being average to being elite.

Saturday, June 30
12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.

Chaunte Garrett Trauma and Equity Panel

Moderated by Chaunte Garrett, Rocky Mount Preparatory School, Rocky Mount, NC

This incredible panel will engage with educators who have firsthand experience with extreme traumatic events in their schools and communities—such as shootings, suicide, and bullying.

Take a Deep Dive into Content by Attending a Pre-Conference Institute

Come early and attend one of three pre-conference institutes on Thursday, June 28, to maximize your learning, including

Please note: Registration for the ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence does not include registration for a pre-conference institute.

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Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities

Networking and branding sponsorship opportunities are available for this conference. 

Please contact Mickey Martin, Sponsorship Sales Manager at 1-720-616-7119 or by e-mail.

Very limited tabletop displays are also available. 

Please contact Brian Osika, Exhibit Sales Manager at 1-703-575-5489 or by e-mail.

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