National Summit on Improvement in Education 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

1G-All Of Us > Any Of Us: Math Teachers Getting Better Together Filling

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

High Tech High International Room 215

What gets in the way of building a great math classroom? A network of math teachers are defining and improving on common problems of practice. Join us to explore the range of tools & routines we’ve developed to structure collaborative improvement across a state-wide practice-research NIC.

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Speakers

Joanna Burt-Kinderman

Project Lead, Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers (M3T)

Joanna Burt-Kinderman has been a math teacher and teacher of math teachers for the last 25 years. She is a project lead and developer of Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers (M3T), a network improvement community of local improvement team led by math teachers across 37 West Virginia... Read More →

Breck Loudermilk

Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teacher, Marion County Schools, WV

Jason Massie

Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers, Monroe County Schools WV

Monday March 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 215

Sessions

Strand Improvement for Impact Stories
Areas of Focus Educator development, Mathematics, Leadership actions, Networks
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

2H-Habits of Excellence: Systems Change through Simplicity Full

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

High Tech High International Room 215

When the KIPP national network shifted to a united strategy around standard work (“One KIPP”) in its 28 regions, we needed an expanded toolkit for building improvement capability outside of programmatic NICs. This has included building our ability to “see, solve, spread” with a focus on distilling the core habits we need to encourage at every level of our system. In this session, we will share KIPP’s early learnings from Year 1 of this approach, and participants will practice with a suite of artifacts to walk through this journey themselves.

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Speakers

Jen Stocklin

Senior Director, Continuous Improvement, KIPP

Monday March 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 215

Sessions

Strand Leadership and Field Building
Areas of Focus Leadership actions, Scale or spread practices
Target Audience District leaders, Network leaders, School leaders, Teachers, Technical assistance providers, County or state level leaders, Researchers

1:45pm PDT

3I-Beyond the Anecdote: Strengthening Empathy Interviews for Systemic Change Filling

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

High Tech High International Room 215

Increase your improvement team’s capacity to meaningfully plan for and use empathy interviews in this hands-on session. Participants will learn how to identify a clear and specific purpose for empathy interviews and backwards plan towards that purpose. We’ll discuss the common missteps of empathy interviews and how to avoid them. Participants will practice analysis and application of interview findings. Strategies from this session can be modified and applied to other qualitative data teams collect such as listening sessions. Previous experience with empathy interviews is not required.

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Speakers

Kari Nelsestuen

Co-Founder, Community Design Partners

Kari Nelsestuen brings creativity, leadership, and curiosity to Community Design Partners, an organization she co-founded in Portland, Oregon. As a skilled facilitator and advisor, she is motivated by “light bulb moments” when teams uncover root causes of problems on their path... Read More →

Monday March 31, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
High Tech High International Room 215

Sessions

Strand Methods of Improvement
Areas of Focus Tools of improvement
Target Audience District leaders, School leaders, Teachers, Higher education faculty or administrators, County or state level leaders, Network leaders, Researchers, Community stakeholders, Technical assistance providers

9:00am PDT

4N-From Innovation to Impact: Designing for Sustainable Scaling in a Networked Community

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

High Tech High International Room 215

Our session shares the journey of evolving from an innovation-focused network to a scaling initiative, driven by a commitment to expand effective practices reliably across diverse schools and regions. We’ll discuss how we built and refined infrastructure to support routines for data collection, fostered cross-regional collaboration, and developed onboarding systems to welcome new teams while honoring the work of founding partners. Join us to explore strategies and tools that not only spread proven methods but also create a pipeline of skilled practitioners to sustain field growth and impact.

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Speakers

Stephanie Lassalle

Director of Improvement Programs, Marshall Street

Kim Burdi

Director of Continuous Improvement, Marshall Street

Tuesday April 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
High Tech High International Room 215

Sessions

Strand Leadership and Field Building
Areas of Focus Scale or spread practices, Networks
Target Audience County or state level leaders, District leaders, Network leaders, School leaders, Technical assistance providers