National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

4O-Just and Equitable Educator Preparation in the California State University System

Tuesday April 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT

High Tech High International Room 127

Leaders and campus improvement team representatives from the Center for Transformational Educator Preparation Programs (CTEPP) will share artifacts and lessons learned as part of a three-year,10-campus effort to transform educator preparation in the California State University System.Participants will hear about the vision behind CTEPP; the how and why particular components were employed to support this transformation work. Team reps will give a brief overview of their biggest learning and most compelling artifact or improvement tool. Participants will then be invited to ‘dig in’ with a team for a ‘table talk’, ask questions and engage with the artifact.

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Speakers

Catherine Lemmi

Assistant Professor of Education, California State University, Chico

Shannon Panfilio-Padden

Virginia Adams Simon

Data and Improvement Coach, Educator Quality Center, CSU Office of the Chancellor

Bre Evans- Santiago

Associate Dean, College of Education and Co-Director of The Center for Transformational Education Prep Programs, Cal State Long Beach and the CSU

Elizabeth Miller

Mimi Coughlin

Professor, Sacramento State University, Sacramento State

Mimi Coughlin, PhD is a Professor in the College of Education at Sacramento State University where her focus in on teacher preparation and professional development. Before entering higher education, Dr. Coughlin worked in various K-12 settings as a history-social science teacher... Read More →

Alexandria Hollett

Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge

Tuesday April 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 127

Sessions

Strand Improvement for Impact Stories
Areas of Focus System transformation, Postsecondary innovation
Target Audience Higher education faculty or administrators, Teachers, District leaders, Community stakeholders

9:00am PDT

4P-Sustaining Improvement Practices in the NYC Multi-year Journey to Improve Student Literacy

Tuesday April 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT

High Tech High International Room 120

Experience the Bilingual Bicultural Mini School’s multi-year improvement story as a window to the power of highly effective instructional leadership teams (ILTs) to increase student outcomes. This systems-thinking approach leverages ILTs as engines for school-wide and district-wide change. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to two mental models that were instrumental in quickly building ILT capacity to shift literacy outcomes for all students at this site, and will work through how to apply these generalizable models to high quality Tier 1 instruction.

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Speakers

Chad Vignola

Kami Lewis Levin

Chief Learning Officer, Literacy Design Collaborative

Tuesday April 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 120

Sessions

Strand Improvement for Impact Stories
Areas of Focus Literacy, System transformation, Leadership actions
Target Audience District leaders, Network leaders, School leaders, Teachers, Community stakeholders, Researchers