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Featured Presenters and Speakers

Kirk Koennecke
The Leadership Essentials Toolkit for Everyone

Dr. Christopher Pichon
Purpose Driven Leadership: Capacity Building to Elevate Culture & Achievement

Victoria Manning
Playing is Purposeful: Developing Early Literacy Skills Through Sociodramatic Play

Tangela Murphy
Stop Asking, "What's Wrong With this Student?" Start Asking "What is this Behavior Telling Me?

Tonya Hibbler-Theard
Little Scribblers: Unlocking Magic to Inspire Young Writers

Shontay Olson
From Compliance to Connection for Whole-Child Learning

Scott Bruce
Read. Reflect. Rise.: Using Relevant Texts to Build Literacy, Resilience, and Student Agency

Raymond Lopez
Making Thinking Visible Through 3D Symbolism

Ms. Aisha Atkinson
Purpose Driven Leadership: Capacity Building to Elevate Culture & Achievement

Lisa Collum
Bring Back Paper & Pencil: The Why and the How

Kayla Abram
Vocabulary and Morphology- The Backbone of Comprehension

Justin Clark
Before We Fix the Kids, Let’s Check the Adults

Gayla Wiggins
Literacy in Layers

Faneshia Bolds
Internalize First: The Foundation of Teacher Clarity

Dr. Sheri Voss
Play Is Children’s Language: A Playful Literacies Framework

Dr. Shannon Treadville
The Hidden Barriers: Culturally Responsive Approaches to Executive Function and Dyslexia

Dr. Shannon Parish
Building Community Through Effective Classroom Management

Dr. Robin Quick
Empowering Multilingual Learners Through Teacher-Created Dual-Language Picture Books

Dr. Jules Pichon
Purpose Driven Leadership: Capacity Building to Elevate Culture & Achievement

Dr. Danielle Corbie-Archey
Designing Dyslexia-Responsive, Inclusive Classrooms: From Campus Systems to Daily Instruction

Dr. Cynthia Villalovos
Before They Leave: Using Adult Social-Emotional Learning to Reduce Teacher Burnout and Increase Retention

Dr. Chaundra Suddith
- Beyond Reading Strategies: Executive Functioning, Literacy, and Student Agency in Secondary
- Classrooms
Literacy Without Borders: Building Inclusive, Identity-Affirming Reading Communities Across Contexts
- Classrooms
Literacy Without Borders: Building Inclusive, Identity-Affirming Reading Communities Across Contexts

Dr. Ashley Coen

Amy Gates
Foundational Literacy for Early Learners

Brooke Webster
Teaching Phonics in the Urban Classroom: How to Capture and Retain Students’ Attention and Engagement
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