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The event is in-person, but to attend the Keynote Speaker online, please register using this link: Keynote Speaker Session
The 2026 Teaching Equity Conference is dedicated to eliminating opportunity gaps for all students while creating classroom cultures that increase both academic and social emotional student outcomes. The Teaching Equity Conference theme is “Literacy, Liberty and Legacy”. As professional educators, participants will cultivate literacy through effective classroom cultures based on Washington State’s Equity-Based School Practices: Cultural Competency, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the purpose of improving student engagement, academic confidence and learning for all students. This also includes addressing the inequities of AI and accessibility for implementing effective and inclusive literacy and classroom technology. This will be done through the lens of creating classroom, school and district narratives based on the power of “Asset-Based Story Telling” for students, families and school staff. Asset-based narratives creates school cultures that center student to educator relationships and student to student relationships. Effective and authentic relational classroom cultures and systems have a direct impact on literacy, social emotional growth, academic achievement and addressing unwanted student behaviors.
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2026 Teaching Equity Conference (Equity) (6hr)
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Course Description
The 2026 Teaching Equity Conference is dedicated to eliminating opportunity gaps for all students while creating classroom cultures that increase both academic and social emotional student outcomes. The Teaching Equity Conference theme is “Literacy, Liberty and Legacy”. As professional educators, participants will cultivate literacy through effective classroom cultures based on Washington State’s Equity-Based School Practices: Cultural Competency, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the purpose of improving student engagement, academic confidence and learning for all students. This also includes addressing the inequities of AI and accessibility for implementing effective and inclusive literacy and classroom technology. This will be done through the lens of creating classroom, school and district narratives based on the power of “Asset-Based Story Telling” for students, families and school staff. Asset-based narratives creates school cultures that center student to educator relationships and student to student relationships. Effective and authentic relational classroom cultures and systems have a direct impact on literacy, social emotional growth, academic achievement and addressing unwanted student behaviors.Course Objectives
1. Apply the power of asset-based story telling to drive the classroom narrative and culture to strengthen student sense of belonging, academic confidence and engagement. This includes developing the shared mission and vision of their classroom as it relates to theme of “Literacy, Liberty and Legacy”. 2. Apply relational systems in the classroom to establish educator to student and student to student relational systems in the first 4-6 weeks of school. 3. Apply the WEA Equity-based CCDEI Practices Rubric to the workshops and for the purpose of applying the strategies to the participant’s school communities. 4. Identify resources and trainings to return to the participant’s school communities to increase student sense of belonging, academic confidence and engagement through a CCDEI lens. 5. Create a purpose statement for AI use in their program/classroom.