Vote in PanelPicker® by August 21

How do you imagine student success? What do you believe all students need—and deserve—to be ready for the world that awaits them?

We’re excited to offer two proposals for the Equity & Justice track at next year’s SXSW EDU that explore these ideas, but we need your help to make them happen.

SXSW EDU (pronounced South by Southwest E-D-U) is an annual event that fosters innovation and learning within the education industry. The four-day event brings together the learner, the practitioner, the entrepreneur, and the visionary to share their groundbreaking stories, tackle complex issues, and build reimagined paths forward.

From now until August 21, you can cast your vote in PanelPicker® to bring Leading Educators into the conversation and leave comments about what excites you in our proposals. Learn more about them below.

Reimagining Success: How We Can Teach for Equity

This talk will re-ground equity efforts in the classroom, underscoring how daily lessons can offer students multiple paths to recognizing their own brilliance. We’ll explore how teachers can show students how to think, not what to think, so they thrive as full participants in a diverse, multicultural world.

Takeaways

1. Interrogate your definition of student success, questioning dominant values of individualism, competition, and colorblindness.
2. Learn ways to integrate challenging academics, well-being, and positive identity development in teaching and learning.
3. Feel inspired to name key actions they can take in their own sphere to support collective movement toward fair opportunity.

Speakers

• Chong-Hao Fu, Chief Executive Officer, Leading Educators
• LaKimbre Brown, Chief of Networks, Leading Educators
• Laura Meili, Chief of Impact, Leading Educators

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From Vision to Action: How To Transform Teaching

This talk will challenge the idea that teachers must be heroes who can “do it all” to succeed. In conversation with our friends at Education Resource Strategies, Teach Plus, and Next Education Workforce, we’ll cover inspiring new models and do-able strategies to rethink how we organize people, time, and money in American public schools.

Takeaways

1. Define a vision for a reimagined teaching job.
2. Describe the shifts in the teacher experience needed to achieve this vision.
3. Understand examples of how districts and schools have reorganized resources to improve the teaching job, to apply to your context.

Speakers

• David Rosenberg, Partner, Education Resource Strategies
• Chong-Hao Fu, Chief Executive Officer, Leading Educators
• Kira Orange-Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Teach Plus
• Brent Maddin, Executive Director, Next Education Workforce

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