Are you ready? The stars have aligned for our fourth annual Summer Institute for Authentic Learning and Leadership, July 9-10, 2025 in Columbus, OH!
Registration begins December 11, 2024!
If you’ve joined us before, you know that the Institute is a place of inspiration, collaboration, exploration, and fun—a place designed to engage and nurture a “community of innovators.”
If you’ve never attended, we look forward to welcoming you. You’ll meet dynamic people, discover new ideas and resources, and leave with renewed purpose, energy, and commitment.
2025 Keynoters:
Erin Gruwell – Founder, Freedom Writers Foundation
Daneé Pinckney – 2025 Ohio Teacher of the Year
Peter Kahn – Educator, Poet, and Project Creator
Your experiences at the Institute will help you reimagine education, reconnect with the joy of teaching, and empower students to change the world. Throughout this process, our keynote, featured, and breakout presenters will engage you in the power of story in our lives, our work, our learning, and our connections with others.
In addition, we’ll explore the frontiers of space together—not just outer space, but also inner space, school and classroom space, community and workforce space, and the global space we share. This special theme will help us transform the setting at Upper Arlington High School (OH) with a sense of curiosity, wonder, adventure, and a shared vision and mission. “Out of this world” thinking also frees and empowers us to consider educator and learner well-being, learner agency, school culture, career and workforce learning, and civic engagement and responsibility. All of these elements are key components of authentic learning and leadership.
Regardless of your role, level, or subject area, there will be sessions that engage your heart and mind. We’re working hard to provide sessions that will resonate with you and meet your needs.
So please join us in July. Together, we can make learning irresistible. Together, we can create schools that are out of this world!