CONFERENCE ON TEACHING EXCELLENCE

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.

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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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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

• Keeping Kids Safe Every Day: A Practical Guide to Safer Schools, with Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger
• Trauma Is a Word, Not a Sentence, with Pete Hall and Kristin Souers
• Becoming a Threat to Educational Inequity: The Equity Literacy Approach, with Paul Gorski

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

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Spaces for the 2018 Conference on Teaching Excellence will fill up fast. Register today.

Once you receive your registration confirmation, be sure to book your hotel and make travel arrangements.