Deeper Learning 2026
Multi-day education conference featuring workshop rounds, deep dive sessions, and den talks focused on deeper learning pedagogies.
Sessions (92)
Student Makers Market
Opening Experience
Community Advisory & Student-Led Experiences
Performance Assessment for Equity: Moving Beyond Standardised Testing
Project-Based Learning Meets the Science of Reading
Pre-Conference Add On: Where Curiosity Leads
HTH GSE Degrees Community Mixer
Student Makers Market
Opening Experience
Community Advisory & Student-Led Experiences
A Way to Shift from Surviving to Thriving
Activating the Third Teacher to Enhance Learning
Authentic Community Service: When Students Identify and Lead the Way
Belonging Through Play: Equity and Student Agency
Books Alive - Exploring Literacy Through Drama
Building Belonging: Tools for Student-Led Classrooms
Building Ecosystems of Mattering in Schools
Community Rap Sessions: Fostering Authentic Family & Community Partnership
Creating Communities of Protection, Resistance and Deeper Learning in Sanctuary Schools: Accompañamiento as Innovation
Curiosity Reclaimed: It Didn't Kill the Cat!
Designing Projects That Matter: Equity in CTE/IB
Enduring Engagement Through Authentic Assessment
From Vision to Action: Bringing Project Based Learning for All to Life
Ground Control to Major Tom: Modern Leadership
Human Schools for Inhuman Times
Mission-Aligned Targets, Deeper Learning Outcomes
Ordinary Streets, Extraordinary Learning
Rethinking Stress to Nurture Thriving Learners
Summit Crossover Session: Adaptive Solutions, Technical Moves: How Check-Ins Address Complex Leadership Challenges
Summit Crossover Session: Beyond Grades and Test Scores: Experiential Learning and SEL Boosts Postsecondary Success
Summit Crossover Session: Leveraging Learning Walks to Align on Student Experiences and Improve Coaching Outcomes
Summit Fireside Chat: Deeper Learning or Continuous Improvement: Why not both?
Summit Session: Leader's Mindset: Shifting Deeper Learning from Complex Challenge to Improvable Problem
System-Level R&D: Conditions for Change
The Power of Play: Deepening Trust and Belonging
Reception & Dinner
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Deeper Learning Schools
AI in Deeper Learning Classrooms: Opportunity or Threat?
From Grades to Mastery: Redesigning Assessment for Deeper Learning
Morning Movement: Awakening AI Through Movement
Morning Movement: Kayak and Community Paddle
Community Advisory: Deeper Learning Competencies
A Box Sent Back from the Future
Are Your Structures Sabotaging Your Mission?
Collective Design: Designing WITH the Local Genius of Our Communities
Crafting Hope in Challenging Times
Design for Belonging Within & Beyond Classroom Walls
Empowering Educators to Lead Fieldwork: Doing More with Less
ENGAGE! Designing Innovative Project-Based Experiences
Experience as Text
Gamified Project-Based Learning to Engage your Classroom
How to Deeper Learn-ify Your Adopted Curriculum
Leading PBL Through Workforce Transformation
Lessons that Inspire: Deeper Instruction Strategies
Let's Build a Space Habitat! A PBL & Design Thinking Slice
Let's Design Tomorrow’s Schools: AI, Equity, and Collaboration
Multilingual Ecosystems: The Head, Hands, and Heart
Negotiation for Education Leaders
Numbers are People 2 (Too)
Play More Attention: The Magic of Crafting Engaging Experiences
Rewrite the Script: Redefining School Through Storytelling and Pathways
Rhythm Rooms: Body Percussion Tools for Engagement, Belonging, and Classroom Culture
Rooted in Vision: Leading to Accelerate Emergence and Coherence
Students Are the Curriculum and the Community Is the School
Community Advisory: Deep Dive Reflection & Exhibition Prep
The Future Isn’t Standardized: A Film Screening and Conversation
Mingei International Museum Guided Tour
PBLWorks Social Hour
Community Advisory: Set Up and Prep for Exhibition
Exhibition of Learning
Becoming a DL Teacher: Feedback That Matters
Beyond the One-and-Done: Adult Learning for Impact
Bridging the Gap: Partnering for Equitable Access to Futures in STEM
Building Student Centered Culture by Developing Teacher Leaders
Design for Deeper Learning with the AI Kaleidoscope
Developing Authentic Audiences for PBL
How to Craft Movement Stories
Leveling Up: How Play Builds SEL Muscles in Adolescents
Prescribing Agency: Two Docs, One Mission: Centering Youth Voice for Transformative Learning
Social Emotional Leadership Tools for Students
Student Voice Data: Building Safer Schools
Student-Led Workshop: The Power of Play
Summit Crossover Session: Climb with Clarity: Using the Ladder of Inference to Transform Data into Collective Action
Summit Crossover Session: Designing Expected Outcomes to Unlock Literacy Potential: EmPOWERing Schools to Accelerate Proficiency.
Summit Crossover Session: Family Engagement as a Strategic Tool for School Improvement
Summit Crossover Session: From Hidden to Found: Using Improvement Science to Drive Compelling Results for LTMLLs
Summit Crossover Session: From Words to Action: Design-Thinking Tools for Coherent Improvement
Summit Crossover Session: Youth Voice in Action: Turning Student Insights into Policy and Practice
The Power of Ritual in Building Team Culture
Tune In to Sound, Speak Out as Practice
What Can the Deeper Learning and High Quality Instructional Materials Communities Learn from Each Other?
Keynote & Closing