National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025

Advisory Groups-Click for locations 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Welcome Reception 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Registration 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Opening Community Gathering 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Registration 12:00pm - 1:45pm

Beverage Service 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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Advisory Groups 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Breakfast-Click for menu 8:00am - 9:00am

Lunch-Click for menu & Networking Table information 12:30pm - 1:45pm

Registration 8:00am - 8:45am

Break-Click for menu 10:30am - 11:00am

Break-Click for menu 3:15pm - 3:45pm

1B-Liberatory Improvement: Reimagining the Intersections of Improvement, Equity and Justice 9:00am - 10:30am

2B-Transforming Systems by Embedding CI into Existing Systems and Districts 11:00am - 12:30pm

3B-How Do We Catalyze and Accelerate a Movement?: Lessons from Healthcare and the Social Sector 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1A-Literacy & Math Improvement Review with Teaching Matters 9:00am - 10:30am

2A-9th Grade On-Track Improvement Review with CORE Districts 11:00am - 12:30pm

3A-College Access Improvement Review with KIPP Public Schools 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1E-Experimenting for Improvement 9:00am - 10:30am

2L-Leveraging Improvement Science for IMPACT: A Collaborative Model for K-12 and Higher Ed 11:00am - 12:30pm

3C-Data That Moves: Designing Actionable Displays for Improvement Leaders 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1O-Increasing Engagement, Growth, and Achievement through Student-Centered Teaching Practices 9:00am - 10:30am

2K-Coaching for Improvement: Navigating Common Coaching Dilemmas 11:00am - 12:30pm

3H-The Engine for Improvement: Coaching PDSA Cycles 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1K-Enhancing Voice and Equity in Strategic Planning: An Improvement Science Approach 9:00am - 10:30am

2O-Elevating Student Voice: Co-Designing for Well-Being, Engagement, and Belonging 11:00am - 12:30pm

3P-Equity in Action: Improving Relational Trust for Instructional Alignment and Coherence 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1I-Leading to Improve: Using Community Action to Address Chronic Absenteeism 9:00am - 10:30am

2N-The Core 4 (and Beyond): Monitoring Progress to Graduation in a Post COVID World 11:00am - 12:30pm

3N-Using Intermediaries to Increase Access to Student Support Systems in Rural Schools 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1G-All Of Us > Any Of Us: Math Teachers Getting Better Together 9:00am - 10:30am

2H-Habits of Excellence: Systems Change through Simplicity 11:00am - 12:30pm

3I-Beyond the Anecdote: Strengthening Empathy Interviews for Systemic Change 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1H-From Zero to Data Hero: Co-Designing Data Measurement Strategies for Improvement 9:00am - 10:30am

2E-Cooking Up a Measurement System for a School Network 11:00am - 12:30pm

3E-Equity-focused Improvement: Making the Implicit Explicit 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1M-From Compliance to Connection: Cultivating Relational Trust to Drive Improvement 9:00am - 10:30am

2J-Data that Works: Effective Data Systems for School Improvement 11:00am - 12:30pm

3K-Leading Instructional Improvement: Building an Infrastructure for Equity in Classrooms 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1P-How 12 Systems of Public Higher Education Improved their way to Transfer Student Success 9:00am - 10:30am

2P-Student-Led Improvement: Stories from the NWRESD Student Network 11:00am - 12:30pm

3M-Raising the Bar: Improving Graduation Rates for Students with Disabilities 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1J-From Spark to Flame: Cultivating Improvement Practices That Ignite a Culture of CI 9:00am - 10:30am

2D-Prioritizing for Impact: Using Pareto Analysis to Select a High Leverage Focus 11:00am - 12:30pm

3J-Continuous Improvement Journey: A Collaborative Approach to Transformation 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1N-Values, Data and Relationships: Insights on Scaling CI Practices in Chicago 9:00am - 10:30am

2C-Navigating Uncertainty: Learning and Leading Through Mistakes in Networked Improvement 11:00am - 12:30pm

3O-Coordinating Cross-sector Work Through a NIC to Meet the Needs of Underserved Students 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1L-Building a Pipeline of Leaders to Transform School Improvement Planning 9:00am - 10:30am

2F-Growing Habits into Mindsets: Building Improvement Capability in an Urban School District 11:00am - 12:30pm

3F-Leading a Learning Hive: Building Adaptive Governance for Equity 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1F-Empowering Teachers and Students: Using Practical Measurement to Support Culturally Responsiv... 9:00am - 10:30am

2G-Going Far by Going Together: Collective Efficacy in Improvement Systems 11:00am - 12:30pm

3G-Driving Impact Through Collaborative Practices 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1D-Supporting Network Leaders: Unpacking the Work and Challenges of Hub Leadership 9:00am - 10:30am

2M-Embedding CI Practices: Lessons Learned & Sustainability Wins 11:00am - 12:30pm

3D-Racing to Scale: Accelerating Development of Education’s Breakthroughs Together 1:45pm - 3:15pm

1C-Harnessing the Power of Understanding Variation 9:00am - 10:30am

2I-Improvement Doesn't Happen By Accident 11:00am - 12:30pm

3L-Building Systems Capacity for Equity-Driven ILTs: Lessons Learned, Relearned and Unlearned 1:45pm - 3:15pm

Advisory Groups 10:45am - 11:30am

Closing Community Gathering (Boxed lunches to go... 12:00pm - 12:45pm

Breakfast-Click for menu 8:00am - 9:00am

Registration 8:00am - 8:45am

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4B-Improvement as a Field: Where have we been? Where are we going? 9:00am - 10:30am

4P-Sustaining Improvement Practices in the NYC Multi-year Journey to Improve Student Literacy 9:00am - 10:30am

4D-System Mapping: Making Work Visible 9:00am - 10:30am

4M-Leading to Build and Sustain PLCs for Student Growth and Teacher Empowerment 9:00am - 10:30am

4O-Just and Equitable Educator Preparation in the California State University System 9:00am - 10:30am

4C-Learning from Public Chronic Absenteeism Data: An Interactive Control Chart Dashboard 9:00am - 10:30am

4N-From Innovation to Impact: Designing for Sustainable Scaling in a Networked Community 9:00am - 10:30am

4K-Beyond Firefighting: Solving Problems to Root Using Real-Time Problem Solving (RTPS) 9:00am - 10:30am

4H-Designing for High Engagement: Balancing Structure & Agency in Improvement Networks 9:00am - 10:30am

4I-Hidden in Plain Sight: Illuminating a Pernicious Equity Issue in a Large Urban District 9:00am - 10:30am

4F-Beyond Change Packages: Strategies for Creating Dynamic, Silo-busting Resource Hubs 9:00am - 10:30am

4J-Empowering Educators: How Community-based Partnerships can Help Sustain Improvement 9:00am - 10:30am

4E-Transforming a Large Urban High School to a Culture of Improvement: Lincoln High School 9:00am - 10:30am

4G-Interrogating Improvement: Reimagining Improvement Science for Equity and Justice 9:00am - 10:30am

4L-Hardwiring Improvement for the Student and System Results 9:00am - 10:30am

4A-Chronic Absenteeism Improvement Review with New Visions for Public Schools 9:00am - 10:30am