Presented by Dr. Raymond Barnes, Chief of Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (GA); Dr. Bryan Willis-Reese, Principal, Allgood Elementary School, DeKalb County Schools (GA); and Derrick L. McMahon, Jr., Former Educator, Senior Customer Success Manager
The 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a significant milestone—a celebration of five decades of progress in special education, including expanded access to general education classrooms and AI- and tech-driven innovations.
Faced with a need to improve literacy skills and overall reading achievement, district leaders from Berkeley Unified School District in California (BUSD) knew that, no matter what they did, results wouldn’t be fast or easy. But only after three years of dedicated systematic change in kindergarten through fifth grade, they have seen improvement in not just student scores but also in teacher confidence in their ability to meet students’ needs.
Presented by Rebecca Honig, Chief Content and Curriculum Officer, ParentPowered, and Former Teacher; and Françoise Lartigue, Director of Content and Curriculum, ParentPowered, and Former Teacher
Presented by Dr. Mitchell Brookins, Former Teacher, Current Educational Consultant, Brookins Consulting; Lisa Pagano, Director of Advanced Studies, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (NC); and Teri Laliberte, Former Teacher, Current Assistant Director of Professional Learning, Great Books Foundation
Presented by Donell Pons, Tutor, Advocate, Dyslexia Specialist, Workplace Literacy, Reading Horizons; and Robert Rogers, M.D., President, The Reading League Texas
Presented by Jennifer Bowles, Director of Early Education, Farmington Municipal Schools (NM); and Nicole Lambson, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Farmington Municipal Schools (NM)
Presented by Christopher Albeck, Director, Curriculum and Instruction (K–12), Berkeley Public Schools (CA); George Ellis, Director, California Reading & Literature Project; Dr. Kim Gibbons, Director, Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI), University of Minnesota; Jill Hoogendyk, Associate Superintendent, Berkeley Public Schools (CA); and Dr. Dale Webster, President, CORE
Presented by Celeste Myers, Literacy Specialist and Educator, Edna Karr High School (LA); and Dr. Lori Silver, National Literacy Consultant, Lexia
Presented by Marybelle Marrero-Colón, Former Teacher, Current Associate Director of PD Programs, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL); Dr. Kia Johnson, Senior Director, PreK-12 Professional Development and Evaluations, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL); and Vanessa Wara Perrotta, Former Teacher, Current Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning, Vista Higher Learning