National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

1O-Increasing Engagement, Growth, and Achievement through Student-Centered Teaching Practices

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

High Tech High International Room 124

Join us to learn about our network’s six-year journey to put student thinking at the center of instruction and the growth in student literacy achievement that resulted. Our work is grounded in a core set of student-centered instructional practices that are generalizable across content areas and have been central to the improvement. Network leaders will share examples of how educators adapted the practices to their specific contexts, how they tracked student metrics alongside implementation to understand the impact of the practices on student learning, and the surprises they encountered along the way. Experience one of the practices and reflect on opportunities to learn from the process of adaptive integration.

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Speakers

Anthony Petrosky

Director, Institute for Learning

Glenn Nolly

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 124

Sessions

Strand Improvement for Impact Stories
Areas of Focus Educator development, Student engagement
Target Audience District leaders, Network leaders, Researchers, School leaders, Teachers

11:00am PDT

2K-Coaching for Improvement: Navigating Common Coaching Dilemmas Filling

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

High Tech High International Room 124

Organizations using improvement science to guide change efforts often look to improvement coaches to support their work. Coaching can be essential to build individual and team capabilities and support progress towards an improvement goal, but there are few resources that describe this nuanced work. In this session, four categories of common improvement coaching dilemmas will be introduced, as well as ways to explore them and identify potential actions to take. Participants will engage in a scenario-based simulation to practice responding to challenges that routinely arise during coaching and also reflect on a challenge from their own practice.

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

Speakers

Edit Khachatryan

Senior Associate Networked Improvement Science, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Edit Khachatryan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Foundation, supporting system transformation work through improvement science. Edit is an improvement facilitator, researcher, and educator with a mission to create lasting educational improvements by facilitating, strengthening... Read More →

Barbara Shreve

MD Network Improvement Science, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Barbara Shreve serves as managing director of the Networked Improvement Science team at the Carnegie Foundation. In this role, she leads strategy to advance access to and use of improvement science to address challenges in education and enable system transformation. As a senior associate... Read More →

Monday March 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 124

Sessions

Strand Methods of Improvement
Areas of Focus Leadership actions, Routines and structures for social learning
Target Audience County or state level leaders, District leaders, Network leaders, School leaders

1:45pm PDT

3H-The Engine for Improvement: Coaching PDSA Cycles Filling

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

High Tech High International Room 124

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is the engine for learning in networked improvement work, and improvement coaches play an important role in ensuring that the learning from these inquiry cycles benefits the network. In this session, participants will learn about models and approaches to improvement coaching, with a focus on how coaches can help teams build efficient and effective inquiry routines. Participants will examine and reflect upon common dilemmas in coaching PDSAs and practice identifying specific coaching moves to support the team moving forward.

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Speakers

Beverley Jenkins

Coordinator, System Improvement Leads (SIL) Project

Sandra Park

Monday March 31, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 124

Sessions

Strand Methods of Improvement
Areas of Focus Tools of improvement, Routines and structures for social learning
Target Audience District leaders, Network leaders, School leaders, Teachers, Technical assistance providers

9:00am PDT

4M-Leading to Build and Sustain PLCs for Student Growth and Teacher Empowerment

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

High Tech High International Room 124

In this interactive session, participants will learn how the Tea Area School District utilizes improvement science principles to enhance instructional practices through weekly Elementary Professional Learning Community (PLC) meetings. Attendees will engage in hands-on activities that illustrate the use of student-driven Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles and effective goal-setting strategies.Through group discussions, role-playing scenarios, and real-life improvement studies, attendees will collaborate with peers to share insights and develop actionable strategies. The session will incorporate feedback loops and guidelines used in the Tea Area PLCs, highlighting the gradual release of ownership to teachers and the importance of feedback cycles in fostering teacher agency and increasing teacher collective efficacy.

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Speakers