School Redesign in Action 2023
School Redesign in Action is the Great Schools Partnership’s eleventh conference for educators and education stakeholders from across the country, who will come together to share lessons learned in the journey toward educational equity and personalized learning. Participants will exchange best practices, problem solve together, and continue to build momentum and public support for innovations that improve learning for all students.
Details on the agenda, lodging, travel, and more can be found on our conference details page. A tentative session list can be found below.
Pre-Conference Sessions:
- Reimagining Student Work: Designing Effective Learning Tasks & Assessments
- PLGs: Moving from Routine Meetings to Genuine and Authentic Professional Learning
- The Power of a Circle
- Preparing for Pushback Bootcamp: Sustaining Equity Work in Schools
- Centering the Equity in “Grading for Equity”
- Site Visit to The East Bay Met School
- Closed Group: Principal’s PLG Session
Conference Sessions:
- Turning Antiracist Thoughts into Antiracist Action
- It’s Time to Check Your Equity Pulse: Planning for Impact in Schools and Districts
- MTSS: Building and Sustaining Data-Driven Systems to Support All Students
- Designing a Middle School with Equity at the Center
- Closing the Social Capital Gap
- Adopt & Adapt: A Roadmap to Culturally Responsive HQIM Implementation
- What’s the SCORE? Youth- and Parent-Driven Indicators of Educational Equity
- Data that Matters: Using Student Story (Data) to Promote Educational Justice
- Educators Union, Community, and District Collaborating for Racial Equity at District and School Level
- Learning What it Means to Belong: One District’s Story
- From Family Involvement to Family ENGAGEMENT: How to Leverage Parent Trainers
- Culturally Responsive School Change
- What Does It Really Mean To Be Engaged?
- Growing Student Activists for Racial Equity and Justice
- Project-Based Learning in the Outdoors: Using Google MyMaps to Share Descriptive Writing
- I Know How I Know This: Competency-Based Curriculum and Development
- Happiness is Interdisciplinary Work
- Genocide and The Holocaust: Having Difficult Conversations in Classrooms and Beyond
- Re-Imagining Engagement Practices with Confianza
- Improving Student Work Habits by Embedding Explicit Instruction in Executive Functions in Classrooms
- How to Avoid Fake-quity Pitfalls: Our District’s Journey Towards Educational Equity
- Introducing, Implementing, and Sustaining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies and Practices in Predominantly White School Communities
- Real and Relevant: Personalizing the Curriculum through Independent Projects
- Continuous School Improvement as a Platform for Supporting Current and Aspiring BIPOC Leaders
- Farm Fantasy Program – How One School Leveraged Community Partnerships to Create a Robust, Authentic Learning Experience and How You Can, Too!
- Breaking Through the Walls of Your School: Empowering Students to Change the World Right Now
- Mastery, Not Time: Engage Around the Latest Trends and Practices of Competency-Based Education
- Negotiating Culturally Relevant Teaching: Employing Critical Consciousness Within Cautious School Contexts
- White School Leaders and Racial Justice School Reform
- One Westbrook: Two Tales, One City
- Portrait of Learner: One District’s Strategic Planning and Visioning Process
- Reimagining Student-Centered Social Studies in a Racially, Linguistically, and Religiously Diverse School
- Student-Centered Restorative Practices in Education