This $50 optional fee covers parking costs in any of our nearby garages for the length of the conference.

This registration will cover access to all conference content and meal breaks other than dinners.

Come and join other first time attendees as well as conference staff to learn about what you’ll be doing throughout the day.

Realizing we needed a clear system as a district and at sites to support teachers, we stepped out of the box and created a personalized learning (PL) site leadership team. Then we went even bigger and created a district level PL Facilitator. We believed building a strong PL site leadership team and supporting those site leads with a district level PL facilitator unified the district vision, yet allowed sites autonomy to personalize the professional development at their sites. Learn more about this in this session.

How do you find evidence on interventions that not only work, but will work for your teachers and for your students? And how can teachers and school leaders best make sense of the data in schools to bring educators together around the data and assessments that matter most to your school to help build capacity, trust, and collaboration around using evidence together in schools for instructional improvement? Join us to discuss these topics.

Join your fellow attendees to honor outstanding teachers for the year. A networking reception for all attendees will follow.

According to the American Psychological Association, resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of risk. In simple terms, we might describe resilience as the ability to bounce back when something goes wrong rather than crack under pressure. The good news is that everyone has some resilience, only in varying degrees. It’s important to note that a person with resilience still feels the intensity of a difficult situation—they’ve just found a better (and quicker) way of dealing with it. Fortunately, resilience can be learned, and not surprisingly, it can make or break your career. In this session, we’ll discuss strategies to achieve this.

Step into the classrooms of Western’s most innovative instructors and observe how they engage their undergraduate students with the course material in creative ways. Following the in-class observation, meet the instructor for a post-class conversation of their teaching strategies.

Goldman is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project. Goldman’s books have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. On her daily blog, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness. On her weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a Los Angeles-based television writer. On August 10, 2003, Brian Lamb interviewed Rubin on the television show, Booknotes.