EDxEDNYC Educational Conference | NYC

EDxEDNYC is BACK!

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2021

The EDxEDNYC Conference is back for 2021 We will host a virtual conference on June 3, 2021. There is so much to talk about and we know this year's session conversations will be rich and important.

Conference Tickets
Our registration period is open as of February 9th at 8am. Tickets are limited. Tickets, as always, are free.

Tickets are limited this year. Your ticket secures your spot. If you change your mind and do not wish to attend, we ask that you cancel your ticket to allow someone else to attend. Individuals and school groups are welcome.

Conference Proposals
We are now accepting proposals! Head on over to our Proposals page to submit your session proposal! We accept proposals on a rolling basis.

We can't wait to see you again!

If you're new to EDxEDNYC, we can't wait to meet you!

What Is EDxEDNYC?

EDxED is an annual education conference for educators run by educators from Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in New York City. This Professional Learning education conference features relevant professional development content for all educators — including subject-area teachers, school administrators, physical education teachers, librarians, counselors and arts teachers.

The mission of the EDxEDNYC Professional Learning Conference, designed for educators by educators, is to share best practices of pedagogy within and beyond the classroom, to network with other innovative thinkers and to continue conversations on student engagement, innovation, technology, instruction, fostering discussion, questioning, reflective leadership and design-thinking within our schools.

This Year's Theme:

Reimagining Normal:

Education after COVID19

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2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DEBORAH MEIER

Deborah Meier has been working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate since the early 1960s, and ranks among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement in the U.S. She started her work as an early childhood teacher in Chicago after graduating from the U of Chicago. Her family moved to NYC in the late 1960s where she worked as a kindergarten teacher in Central Harlem. For the next 20 years, Meier helped revitalize public schools in New York City’s East Harlem District 4. In 1974, she founded Central Park East Elementary School (CPE I), a highly successful public school of choice that served predominantly local African American and Hispanic families. During the next dozen years, Meier opened two other Central Park East elementary schools in District 4 as well as an acclaimed secondary school (CPESS), while also supporting and directing the development of similar schools throughout NYC. She helped found the Coalition of Essential Schools, in the 1980s, under the leadership of Ted Sizer. In 1987 she received a MacArthur “genius” Award for her work in public education. During the 1990s she also served as an Urban Fellow at the Annenberg Institute. In 1995 she moved to Boston to start Mission Hill, a K-8 school in Roxbury. These schools were part of a network Meier created that helped initiate new small schools, both elementary and secondary, both in NYC and Boston. At Coalition schools, Meier helped foster democratic communities, giving teachers greater autonomy in the running of a school, giving parents a voice in what happens to their children in schools, and promoting intergenerational connections.

She has always been a proponent of active, project-based learning, and of graduation through a series of exhibitions of high quality work. She is the author of many books and articles, including The Power of Their Ideas, Lessons to America from a Small School in Harlem, and In Schools we Trust. She is an outspoken critic of state-mandated curriculum and high stakes standardized testing and has written extensively on their unreliability and class/race biases. She is on the board of FairTest, Save Our Schools, Center for Collaborative Education and the Association for Union Democracy. She is also on the editorial board of The Nation, The Harvard Education Letter, and Dissent magazines.

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2021 SPEAKER: Principal Kafele

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2021 SPEAKER:

Nicholas Ferroni

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2021 SPEAKER:

Dr. Bryan Pearlman

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PRAISE FOR EDxEDNYC

Practical PD

"The seminars provided best practice examples which improved my planning, because it gave me a way to compare my practice, and the ability to critically analyze my lessons."

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Take Aways

"I incorporated ideas from the Big Idea Project, the Senior Seminar, and the Right to Read literacy campaign."

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Student Impact

"I attended a presentation on standards-based grading and on student analysis of their own exams, and I incorporated many of these changes into my classroom. I believe it has had an impact on my students' knowledge of their performance and skill in the classroom."

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Fun + Collaborative

"The workshops are fun and engaging. Allowing for such diverse courses allows us to improve on content-specific, pedagogic, and community-based related areas."

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