Event Types

Join us at the MGM Grand in LV, July 21–24, 2025, for "SHOWTIME: Lights, Learning, Action." Discover evidence-based practices, inspiring keynotes, interactive sessions, and networking. Enhance learning with VL research and actionable strategies. Add-on options include certifications and pre-conference PD. Light up the stage of education and set the spotlight on success!

Harness the power of collaboration through the PLC+ framework. Explore ways to leverage expertise, foster collective efficacy, and connect student and teacher learning with inquiry cycles. Rooted in equity and Visible Learning+, this conference provides strategies to break barriers and boost achievement through impactful, reflective practices.

Teacher clarity is a powerful approach with an effect size of 0.84, helping students understand what they’re learning, why it matters, and how to measure success. Clear goals lead to greater student ownership, progress monitoring, and seeking feedback. In classrooms with clarity, students thrive as active learners. Let’s prioritize teacher clarity and Drive Learning Forward!

With the latest research on what works best in teaching and learning, the Mathematics Playbook virtual Institute is is comprehensive guide to enhancing mathematics teaching and learning. With a focus on fostering equity and maximizing student learning, the speakers provide practical modules that integrate the latest research on effective teaching practices, and answer four critical questions: How do we foster, nurture, and sustain mathematics learning? How do we ensure all learners have equity of access and opportunity? What are the non-negotiables in a high-quality mathematics task? How do we know if learners really “get it”? Through interactive sessions and an emphasis on self-assessment and reflection, this institute empowers you to create engaging and impactful learning experiences in mathematics.

Presented by Bertha Vazquez “Controversial” topics like climate change are competently taught by thousands of teachers across the US. However, teachers are not as successful in changing the minds of the science-denying students. Why? We assume students’ lack of knowledge is the reason. Unfortunately, our beliefs are often more associated with our identities than factual evidence. This webinar will describe this phenomenon and address strategies to incorporate this new understanding into our daily lessons.

Congratulations!  You’ve hired new teachers and they are excited to get started. Now you must support them and help them develop into amazing educators who have a significant impact on student learning.  We have the tools you need to do just that.  This certification provides you with the system necessary to ensure that new teachers feel supported and develop a strong set of skills.  We’ll provide you with training materials and supplies including videos to engage new teachers in their continued learning.  We focus on creating a learning climate, planning and assessing learning, designing and delivering instruction, and effective instructional strategies that have a significant impact on learning.  In addition, we have developed cycles of learning for new teachers and give you all of the forms, PowerPoints, tools, and checklists to implement a comprehensive induction program. Included with registration: Onboarding Teachers & Welcome to Teaching!

Succinct, smart, and swift, this institutes nine learning modules takes you systematically through a process that begins and ends with standards. With abundant cross-curricular examples that span grade levels, planning templates for every step, key professional learning questions, and a PLC guide, you have the most practical planner for designing and delivering highly effective instruction. Included with registration: Teacher Clarity Playbook E-Book

Join us for a dynamic foundational institute where we delve into the transformative practice of identity safe teaching. Discover why this approach is essential for student achievement and well-being and how to implement actionable strategies to foster inclusion and meaningful learning experiences.

"Know Thy Impact" isn't just a phrase in Visible Learning; it's a call to action. This session, designed for school leaders and teachers using the i-Ready platform, demystifies the process of evaluating your impact on student learning. Participants will be introduced to the core ideas of Visible Learning and gain a deeper understanding of what it means to Know Thy Impact. We will clarify the crucial difference between progress and achievement and teach participants how to use data and evidence to drive practice through the lens of Visible Learning. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to evaluate their strengths and opportunities for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and celebrate student growth and success.

Presented by Susan Bowman Why is the current student dropout rate continuing to remain so high in spite of all that is being done to combat it? The presentation will share fresh perspectives about the too-often unnoticed underlying causes and will provide several specific approaches to address it. The presenter, a former school dropout herself, will give unique insights and strategies to help to effectively reach and connect with students at risk of dropping out.

In today's education landscape, billions are allocated to innovative programs, professional development, and cutting-edge technologies. Yet, the question remains: How effectively are these investments translating into improved student learning outcomes? This institute will delve into strategies to measure and optimize the Return on Learning (ROL) of educational investments. We'll explore evidence-based practices, learning walk protocols, meaningful professional learning, and staff engagement strategies to ensure that our resources are driving meaningful impact. Included with registration: Digital Leadership  eBook

Your days, weeks, months, semester, and year are jammed full of responsibilities as an educator.  With very little down time, we must ensure that what we do in our schools and classrooms and how we do what we do in our schools and classrooms is both effective and efficient.  This includes the giving and receiving of feedback.  In fact, feedback is the one area that can cause the greatest strain on us as educators.  While we may acknowledge and believe that feedback is an important and essential part of the learning process, we are confronted with challenges in the giving and receiving of feedback in our own classrooms. Included with registration: How Feedback Works eBook

This professional development opportunity is designed to delve into principles and practices of grading with integrity to elevate the grading process and promote genuine learning environments. Discussions include the importance of grading with integrity, analysis of current grading systems’ challenges, and exploration of reform efforts such as standards-based and competency-based grading. Participants will craft meaningful grading statements and consider how nonachievement factors play a role in the grading process. Be equipped with practical insights and tools to implement better grading and reporting policies aligned with educational goals. This transformative journal toward grading with honesty, transparency, and equity.

Restorative practices are an alternative to punitive approaches to classroom management. These practices humanize the schooling experience and allow individuals who cause harm to make amends. Restorative practices rely on strong relationships as well as clear systems and procedures to ensure that harm is addressed. The impact is increased equity for BIPOC students as well as a reduction in exclusionary practices such as suspension and expulsion. But as importantly, students change their behavior as they come to understand the impact that it has. Included with registration: The Restorative Practices Playbook

Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Kierstan Barbee, Sarah Ortega, and Aida Rotell It’s never too late to build the skills necessary to find joy in reading and learning. Armed with equity, empathy, evidence-based research and practical application, literacy experts Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey along with Kierstan Barbee, Sarah Ortega, and Aida Rotell will address this critical need head on, and provide classroom practices teachers can use with the whole class or with small groups to integrate reading support seamlessly with grade-level content learning.  

This institute focuses on recognizing the strengths and rights of multilingual learners, fostering inclusive classroom environments, and designing effective strategies that integrate language acquisition with content learning.

It’s easy to say that scaffolds support learning. But what type of scaffolds are most effective and when should they be used? The sweet spot for learning involves providing students the right blend of productive failure and productive success, and there are over 3000 studies of scaffolding that guide the essential moves and methods teachers can use to ensure that the scaffolds they use are effective rather than counterproductive or even harmful. Included with registration: How Scaffolding Works E-book

Presented by Margarita Espino Calderón, Rebecca Upchurch, Giuliana Jahnsen Lewis, Lisa Tartaglia, and Hector Montenegro Middle and high school instructional coaches want to know how to observe and coach teachers with multilingual learners in their core content classrooms. In this webinar, Margarita Espino Calderón will present a coaching model for multilingual excellence focused on academic language, reading comprehension, SEL competencies, and writing that has been tested in thousands of classrooms. Margarita will be joined by four expert coaches to share protocol components, tools, and tips for coaches and school administrators. Bring your questions about coaching teachers of multilingual learners!

This two-day Instructional Leadership Certification is designed to equip you with the knowledge and techniques that will enable you to lead instructional improvement in your school system.  Instructional leaders understand the interactions between curriculum, instruction, and assessment and design experiences for educators that improve their practices.  They have the skills necessary to analyze trends in both teaching and learning and use that analysis to deliver quality professional learning and coaching, with the goal of creating change.  Instructional leaders help define expectations and promote a positive learning climate.  These leaders develop and maintain their credibility with staff members so that feedback is acted upon and people are more willing to implement change.  And finally, instructional leaders are visible and accessible as they are optimistic and exude the sense of a positive future.  In this certification experience, you’ll learn and apply what you have learned in an authentic school setting. Included with registration:  How Leadership Works & Leader Credibility

Participants of the Accelerating Learning through Coaching Institute will learn how to build teacher capacity by understanding how to engage teachers in the coaching process, connect with school leadership goals, and accelerate student learning using a collaborative approach designed to be non-threatening and supportive of classroom teachers.

Accelerating student growth and achievement within the context of post-COVID teaching and learning demands that we leverage our expertise as educators to make decisions each day about what content, ideas, and skills we want our students to know, understand, and be able to do. We make decisions about how much time to spend on specific topics and how frequently to engage learners in that topic. We assess learners’ progress through high-quality assessments and decide when to intervene, on what, and at what level of intensity with each evidence-based activity. 

Early childhood is a uniquely sensitive time when young learners are rapidly developing across multiple domains. Knowing which teaching strategies work best and when can have a significant impact on a child’s development and future success, both in school and beyond. Included with registration: The Early Childhood Education Playbook  & Visible Learning in Early Childhood E-books

Presented by Dave Nagel & Bruce Potter Developing great learners must be the focus of every educator and grading should augment other classroom actions not derail them. This engaging and dynamic session will showcase strategies educators can apply the very next day to empower students to drive their learning, specifically how to ensure clarity is a primary driver of grading and feedback actions; including clarity of scoring.

We have never known more than we do now about teaching multilingual students — nevertheless, we teeter on the edge of retreating to old-think practices. The next generation depends upon our getting this right, and this spare, salient guide helps ensure we do. Kids Come in All Languages institute provides teachers and leaders with all they need to design high-quality curriculum to support multilingual learners. Included with Registration: Kids Come in All Languages eBook