National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

1B-Liberatory Improvement: Reimagining the Intersections of Improvement, Equity and Justice

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT

High Tech High International Commons

Let’s have deep conversations on issues that matter to improvers. No slide decks, just real talk. Fireside chats are places for attendees to connect with luminaries, hear transformative stories, and ask questions. This is not a panel, but a free-flowing conversation where a pair of educational leaders interview one another and pursue their wonderings together.

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Speakers

Amanda Meyer

Senior Director of Improvement, CORE Districts

Carlos Sandoval

Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Commons

Sessions

Strand Fireside Chat
Areas of Focus Equity Diversity and Belonging, Leadership actions
Target Audience Community stakeholders, County or state level leaders, District leaders, Higher education faculty or administrators, Network leaders, Policy makers, Researchers, School leaders, Teachers, Technical assistance providers

9:00am PDT

1J-From Spark to Flame: Cultivating Improvement Practices That Ignite a Culture of CI Full

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT

High Tech High Room 105

Educators often hear, “Improvement can’t be done in isolation” but what does it truly take to shift from individual improvement efforts to sustainable, collective, and equitable improvement cultures? How do leaders create conditions for improvement to thrive in everyday collaboration? In this workshop, participants will explore innovative strategies for fostering a culture of continuous improvement that extends beyond individual team leads to impact entire educational organizations. Drawing from the impactful Freshman Success Improvement Community (FSIC) model developed by the University of Chicago’s Network for College Success, participants will engage in experiential learning and discussions that demonstrate how to build the necessary conditions, dispositions, and cultures for improvement work to thrive beyond an individual improver.

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Speakers

Joyce Randall

NCS

Lauren Perez Pietruszka

Transformation Coach, UChicago Network for College Success

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High Room 105

Sessions

Strand Improvement for Impact Stories
Areas of Focus Leadership actions, On-track to graduate K-12, Equity Diversity and Belonging
Target Audience Network leaders, School leaders, Teachers

11:00am PDT

2P-Student-Led Improvement: Stories from the NWRESD Student Network

Monday March 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT

High Tech High International Room 222

Join us for stories of bright spots and hurdles gathered over four years with Oregon’s NWRESD Student Network. In partnership with adults in the NWRESD 9th Grade Success Network, Student Interns investigate their own systems, design and implement plan-do-study-act cycles, and advocate for more caring, connected, and inclusive school cultures. Interns receive stipends for participating in convenings, workshops, and coaching to develop the skills and mindsets to become agents of change. Session participants will develop their own pilot proposal for partnering with students using key lessons learned from the NWRESD Student Network and resources from Student-Powered Improvement.

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Speakers

Annie Tronco

9GS Professional Learning Co-Lead, Northwest

Hilary Clark-Hassinger

9th Grade Success Network Professional Learning Co-Lead, Northwest Regional ESD

Monday March 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 222

Sessions

Strand Methods of Improvement
Areas of Focus Equity Diversity and Belonging, Tools of improvement
Target Audience District leaders, School leaders, Teachers, Network leaders, Community stakeholders

1:45pm PDT

3E-Equity-focused Improvement: Making the Implicit Explicit

Monday March 31, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

High Tech High International Room 218

When the world of education races through initiatives at a breakneck pace, how can we slow down to do the personal and interpersonal work necessary to keep equity at the core of our continuous improvement work? We believe that we can create more equitable systems that drive improvement work in a more grounded, values-driven, and authentically collaborative way. In this session, we will do this by asking participants to 1) engage in the reflective work of drafting a personal equity stance; 2) practice building a collective theory of equity-focused improvement; and 3) apply these tools and processes to their own practice.

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Speakers

Eliza Moeller

Transformation Coach, NCS

Eliza Moeller is the Director of Research and Continuous Improvement with the Network for College Success as well as a Research Analyst at the UChicago Consortium. In an ongoing effort to make research live in schools, Eliza works with NCS data strategists and Consortium researchers... Read More →

Amiee Winchester

Director, Continuous Improvement, Baltimore City Public Schools

Amiee is a Lifelong learner and educator with over 15 years of experience navigating and leading change in complex organizations. She began her career as a fourth-grade teacher, where she continually confronted a system that reliably failed to produce transformative outcomes for all... Read More →

Zachary Jaffe

Manager, Continuous Improvement (Cohort 1 Network Co-lead), Baltimore City Public Schools (Cohort 1)

Beth Brown

Transformation Manager, NCS

Monday March 31, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 218

Sessions

Strand Leadership and Field Building
Areas of Focus Equity Diversity and Belonging, Improvement field-building strategies
Target Audience District leaders, Network leaders, Technical assistance providers

1:45pm PDT

3K-Leading Instructional Improvement: Building an Infrastructure for Equity in Classrooms

Monday March 31, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

High Tech High International Room 219

This session addresses the infrastructure that leaders must cultivate to sustain system-wide instructional improvement. With an evergreen aim to reduce variation in the quality of instruction students experience–both within and across classrooms–we will share our approach to shifting how building and district leaders think and act within their systems. Core principles include creating a shared definition of equitable and adaptive instruction, leveling power structures, reversing the flow of feedback, lowering the stakes for engaging in real-time improvement work, providing practical support for collaborative learning through teacher teams, and changing beliefs about teachers, about students, about data, and about improvement.

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Speakers

Strand Leadership and Field Building
Areas of Focus Equity Diversity and Belonging, Leadership actions
Target Audience Teachers, District leaders, Network leaders, School leaders, Researchers

National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025

9:00am PDT

Amanda Meyer

Carlos Sandoval

Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

9:00am PDT

Joyce Randall

Lauren Perez Pietruszka

11:00am PDT

Annie Tronco

Hilary Clark-Hassinger

1:45pm PDT

Eliza Moeller

Amiee Winchester

Zachary Jaffe

Beth Brown

1:45pm PDT

Andrew Volkert

Isobel Stevenson

Rydell Harrison

Tom Nobili