The 2022 ElevatED Conference Series will provide working educators with a better understanding of Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards, prepare practical strategies for the classroom, and build support structures that give students and educators the best chance to succeed. This years conferences include:
- Understanding Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards (in partnership with Leon County Schools)
- Simply the B.E.S.T. Conference (covering K-12 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and ESE)
- Series 1: May 31st – June 1st
- Series 2: June 28th – June 29th
- Simply the B.E.S.T. Conference (covering K-12 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and ESE)
- Preparing Practical Strategies (in partnership with Leon County Schools Title I)
- Engage. Enrich. Empower: Increasing Schoolwide Success (June 10th)
- Engage. Enrich. Empower: Increasing Schoolwide Success (June 10th)
- Building Support Structures (in partnership with Broward County Schools)
- Creating Conditions for Schoolwide Success (June 14th – 15th) - Click here to register
The award-winning Project ElevatED was launched at Florida State University as an effort to recruit, train and retain the best educators in Florida. Thanks to the commitment of the FSU College of Education to elevate education and our generous supporters, the ElevatED Conference Series will provide in-person professional development opportunities for 2,000 educators in-person and online access worldwide.
Learn more and register for the conferences below:
Simply the B.E.S.T.
Leon County Schools, in partnership with FSU's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, is providing an opportunity for K-12 Math and ELA educators, school administrators, and educational leadership graduate students to deepen their knowledge regarding the implementation of Florida's new Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T. standards) at the summer Simply the B.E.S.T. Conference. Through several tracks of rotating session offerings, experts in the content areas will present information on pedagogical shifts, instructional strategies, instructional materials, and leadership priorities and needs related to standards implementation. We will offer two 2-day sessions in the Summer of 2022 (May 31-June 1 & June 28-29). The conference aims to serve over 1,000 LCS educators and administrators with 5% of these seats being reserved for graduate students from FSU’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Most importantly, the district's goal is to focus on new standards implementation while creating an exciting atmosphere in a conference style setting that honors the joys and realities of an educator's career. In addition to a conference style setting, the opportunity for graduate students, local administrators, district leaders, and classroom teachers to learn simultaneously, and the selection of a variety of breakout topics that can be personalized to fit the role of each participant, we hope to add excitement through a vendors and exhibitors hall and fun and unique dining options.
Each day, we will have approximately 10 local food trucks on site to serve lunch in addition to the variety of dining options available in the beautiful Gaines street/downtown Tallahassee area.
Conference Dates
- Option 1: May 31 and June 1, 2022
- Option 2: June 28 and 29, 2022
Times
- Approximately 8:00 am - 4:00 pm each day.
Location
FSU's Augustus B. Turnbull Conference Center
555 W Pensacola Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Engage. Enrich. Empower: Increasing Schoolwide Success
June 10, 2022
Leon County Schools Title I, in partnership with the College of Education at Florida State University, is providing an opportunity for Title I K-12 teachers and administrators to deepen their knowledge of educational leadership and mental health awareness to increase student achievement. Through several rotating session offerings, content area experts will present information on initiatives to support schoolwide social and emotional learning, supporting the social and emotional success of educators as well as students, student and educator mental health, the use of data and digital tools for academic and social and emotional success, planning for sustainability in SEL initiatives, role of teacher leadership, trauma-informed supports, fostering student belonging, and the role of equity and inclusion for SEL initiatives.
The conference aims to serve over 800 LCS Title I educators and administrators. The goal is to focus on elements necessary to elevate learning outcomes at Title I schools. The conference style setting provides an opportunity for breakout sessions personalized to fit the role of each participant. We hope to provide resources for planning, implementation, understanding and ongoing self-monitoring needed to impact schoolwide achievement of academic and social emotional goals.
Creating Conditions for Schoolwide Success
Register now for Creating Conditions for Schoolwide Success, part of the FSU College of Education's ElevatED Conference Series!
June 14-15, 2022
The Augustus B. Turnbull III Florida State Conference Center
555 W Pensacola Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306
The focus of this conference is on the conditions to bridge academic and social emotional success in K-12 schools. The goal is to bring together educators, policymakers, and researchers who are engaging in schoolwide improvement efforts around personalization for academic and social emotional learning (SEL). Topics that will be addressed include: initiatives to support schoolwide social and emotional learning, supporting the social and emotional success of educators as well as students, student and educator mental health, the use of data and digital tools for academic and social emotional success, planning for sustainability in SEL initiatives, the role of teacher leadership, trauma-informed supports, fostering student belonging, and the role of equity and inclusion for SEL initiatives.
Click here to view the conference program.
Funded by an i3/EIR USDOE grant, "Personalization for Academic and Social-Emotional Learning (PASL)" is a collaboration between the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NCSU) including Dr. Stacey Rutledge, associate professor of educational leadership and policy at FSU; Dr. Marisa Cannata, director of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools at Vanderbilt University; Norman Merrifield and 808Education, and the Broward County Public Schools.
Learn more about the project at the following links:
Questions? Contact Dr. Stacey Rutledge.
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
