National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

1A-Literacy & Math Improvement Review with Teaching Matters Full

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

High Tech High International Room 120

A powerful routine where improvement teams reflect on their data and learning, share a dilemma, and receive feedback from experts who can provide a fresh perspective and push. Join this fishbowl type session to experience this routine, learn more about a team’s work, and glean insights to inform your own improvement efforts.

Teaching Matters works with 23 school teams across New York City, with a focus on increasing 6-8th grade ontrack for post-high school success. A core tenet that undergirds our work is ensuring student belonging and engagement, while increasing math and ELA proficiency. Come learn more about this work, grapple with a dilemma together, and glean insights to inform your own improvement efforts.

Celebrate and push on the work: Give feedback on this session.

Speakers

Ryan Gallagher

HTH GSE

Kiran Purohit

VP of Curriculum & Instruction, New Visions for Public Schools, New Visions for Public Schools

Project-Based LearningScience curriculum designUrban high schools

Alicia Grunow

Co-Founder; Improvement Specialist, Improvement Collective

Alicia Grunow is an educational improvement expert, specializing in how to apply the science of improvement to help teams, organizations and networks reach their improvement goals. Alicia started her career as a bilingual teacher in Denver Public School and then in New York City... Read More →

Jacobē Bell

NSI Director, Teaching Matters

Jeff Kitrosser

Associate Director of Research and Evaluation, Teaching Matters

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 120

Sessions

Strand Improvement Review
Areas of Focus Literacy, Mathematics
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

11:00am PDT

2A-9th Grade On-Track Improvement Review with CORE Districts

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

High Tech High International Room 120

Speakers

Ryan Gallagher

HTH GSE

Jarrod Bolte

CEO, Improving Education

Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

Dr. Doug Kriedeman

Senior Improvement Coach, Core Districts

Juli Coleman

Chief of Improvement, School Networks, CORE Districts

Juli Coleman is the Chief of Improvement, School Networks, for The CORE Districts. She leads a multi-district network of 45 high schools across eight large urban districts focused on improving 9th grade on-track rates.With over 25 years of experience in education, Juli has served... Read More →

Amanda Meyer

Senior Director of Improvement, CORE Districts

Monday March 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 120

Sessions

Strand Improvement Review
Areas of Focus On-track to graduate K-12
Target Audience District leaders, Higher education faculty or administrators, Network leaders, School leaders, Teachers, Community stakeholders, County or state level leaders, Policy makers, Researchers, Technical assistance providers

1:45pm PDT

3A-College Access Improvement Review with KIPP Public Schools

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

High Tech High International Room 120

A powerful routine where improvement teams reflect on their data and learning, share a dilemma, and receive feedback from experts who can provide a fresh perspective and push. Join this fishbowl type session to experience this routine, learn more about a team’s work, and glean insights to inform your own improvement efforts.

KIPP is a national network of public charter schools that includes 49 high schools. Our Match and Counseling community aims to increase the number of KIPP graduates enrolling in well-matched postsecondary options. After several years of running an improvement community with a subset of schools, the Match and Counseling playbook is now being scaled as standard work for all high schools. Improvements are supported through 1:1 coaching of all high schools' Directors of College and Career Counseling (DCCCs) and a continued community of practice. Come learn more about this work, grapple with a dilemma together, and glean insights to inform your own improvement efforts.

We cannot improve what we can’t measure: Share your feedback on this session.

Speakers

Stacey Caillier

Director, National Coalition for Improvement in Education, High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger

Director of Liberation/Founder, High Tech High Graduate School of Education/Living for Liberation

Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger is the Founder of Living for Liberation, an organization that supports the liberation of self, systems, and society. She is also the Director of Liberation at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, an institution that brings together practitioners, researchers and youth to address complex problems of practice... Read More →

Jen Stocklin

Senior Director, Continuous Improvement, KIPP

Katie Suter

Camille Lafayette

Director, Data & Analytics, KIPP Foundation

Brandon Bennett

Improvement Advisor, Teacher and Author

Brandon Bennett is an advisor, teacher and author who helps organizations in health care, education and social welfare improve outcomes for the communities and individuals they serve. As the founder of ISC LLC, Brandon Bennett teaches advanced improvement methods and partners on a... Read More →

Monday March 31, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 120

Sessions

Strand Improvement Review
Areas of Focus College access
Target Audience District leaders, Higher education faculty or administrators, School leaders, Teachers, Community stakeholders, County or state level leaders, Network leaders, Policy makers, Researchers, Technical assistance providers

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.

Improvers 💜 data: Complete the Session Survey.

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