National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

1I-Leading to Improve: Using Community Action to Address Chronic Absenteeism Full

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

High Tech High International Room 205

This session will guide participants through a community-driven approach to addressing chronic absenteeism, drawing on lessons learned from ImpactTulsa’s successful Community Action Forums. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, leveraging data to identify key barriers to attendance—such as safety, mental and physical health, transportation, and housing—and co-design interventions to combat these challenges. Through collaborative discussions and case examples, attendees will learn how to mobilize community partnerships, lead cross-sector efforts, and drive improvements in attendance and student outcomes. This session is ideal for leaders focused on systemic, results-driven change through field-building and community collaboration.

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Speakers

Aubrey Flowers

Head of Cradle to Career Initiatives, ImpactTulsa

Aubrey serves as ImpactTulsa's Head of Cradle to Career Initiatives. Aubrey is a passionate advocate seeking to facilitate meaningful change for youth, families, and communities of Tulsa. In service to all children and adults, Aubrey is also proud to be an innovator, reimagining the... Read More →

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 205

Sessions

Strand Leadership and Field Building
Areas of Focus Chronic absenteeism, Improvement field-building strategies
Target Audience Community stakeholders, County or state level leaders, District leaders, Network leaders, Policy makers, School leaders, Teachers

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

9:00am PDT

4G-Interrogating Improvement: Reimagining Improvement Science for Equity and Justice Filling

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

High Tech High Room 137

In this session, participants will explore the crucial role of equity and justice in the field of improvement science (IS). Participants will learn from a group of equity and justice-centered improvers about how they designed learning experiences for their team to critically evaluate and refine IS methods. The session will 1) equip participants with approaches, skills, and lenses for interrogating IS tools and methods; 2) provide a space to delve into vital connections between IS work and educational equity; and 3) help participants apply a justice-oriented framework to the design and execution of improvement projects.

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Speakers

Isiah Iniguez

Carlos Sandoval

Rebecca Neri

Tuesday April 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High Room 137

Sessions

Strand Leadership and Field Building
Areas of Focus Equity Diversity and Belonging, Improvement field-building strategies
Target Audience Teachers, School leaders, District leaders, Higher education faculty or administrators, Community stakeholders, County or state level leaders, Researchers, Technical assistance providers, Network leaders, Policy makers

9:00am PDT

4J-Empowering Educators: How Community-based Partnerships can Help Sustain Improvement Filling

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

High Tech High Room 108

Context is king when it comes to schools and driving change. In this session, participants will hear stories about school improvement in StriveTogether Network Communities, as well as how we are seeing place-based partnerships support sustainable CI capability building in schools.
You’ll also explore our open-source District Improvement Toolkit, composed of lessons, templates, and an AI powered goal-setter designed to support district and building leaders, classroom teachers, and supporting partners as they train the trainers in their own unique local context.
We have designed this workshop so that anyone, regardless of role, can walk away with an actionable next step toward understanding or furthering the readiness of schools in your community to engage in this work.

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Speakers