20th Annual Teacher Leadership Institute
Join us for the 20th Annual Teacher Leadership Institute — this year with a new location and a refreshed format to best support your learning!
We’re celebrating two decades of empowering educators to lead with purpose, passion, and a commitment to driving educational success. This year’s theme, Inspiring Excellence, focuses on equipping teacher leaders with the tools, strategies, and inspiration to elevate instructional practices, foster inclusive school cultures, and positively impact student outcomes.
Along with powerful keynotes, you'll experience hands-on workshops and collaborative choice sessions, all to explore how to lead with vision, cultivate professional growth, and motivate your colleagues and students to achieve excellence in all areas of education. This year's Teacher Leadership Institute will inspire you to be agents of change and champions of innovation in your schools and communities.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Brandon Fleming, author of Miseducated, and Jessica Vance, author of Leading with a Lens of Inquiry, will be two of this year's keynote speakers!
About This Year's Speakers
Author and educator, Brandon P. Fleming will launch our learning as one of this year’s keynote speakers. In Fleming’s memoir, Miseducated, he shares how he “grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school” and dropped out of college before finding a renewed life vision centered around words, power, and debate, which eventually brought him to work at Harvard University. After transforming his own life, he began transforming the lives of others from underserved communities through the art of debate. He raised millions of dollars to enroll more than 250 students of color into Harvard's summer debate residency on full scholarship, then created the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project, a nationally acclaimed Atlanta-based pipeline program that recruits, trains, and feeds Black youth into a Harvard debate summer residency.
Author and inquiry educator Jessica Vance is another of this year's keynote speakers. Jessica's journey and experience in International Baccalaureate schools and place-based education fuels her passion and global work in coaching both teachers and leaders in their roles, as well as supporting schools in implementing inquiry-based learning. In her publication, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry, she outlines the ways we, as leaders, need to support and facilitate our teachers in the same ways in which we want our teachers to engage with their students. Her forthcoming book (anticipated release early 2025) highlights the importance of documentation as a means to support student assessment, retrieval and reflection process.
Information on other speakers is coming soon!
We’re celebrating two decades of empowering educators to lead with purpose, passion, and a commitment to driving educational success. This year’s theme, Inspiring Excellence, focuses on equipping teacher leaders with the tools, strategies, and inspiration to elevate instructional practices, foster inclusive school cultures, and positively impact student outcomes.
Along with powerful keynotes, you'll experience hands-on workshops and collaborative choice sessions, all to explore how to lead with vision, cultivate professional growth, and motivate your colleagues and students to achieve excellence in all areas of education. This year's Teacher Leadership Institute will inspire you to be agents of change and champions of innovation in your schools and communities.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Brandon Fleming, author of Miseducated, and Jessica Vance, author of Leading with a Lens of Inquiry, will be two of this year's keynote speakers!
About This Year's Speakers
Author and educator, Brandon P. Fleming will launch our learning as one of this year’s keynote speakers. In Fleming’s memoir, Miseducated, he shares how he “grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school” and dropped out of college before finding a renewed life vision centered around words, power, and debate, which eventually brought him to work at Harvard University. After transforming his own life, he began transforming the lives of others from underserved communities through the art of debate. He raised millions of dollars to enroll more than 250 students of color into Harvard's summer debate residency on full scholarship, then created the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project, a nationally acclaimed Atlanta-based pipeline program that recruits, trains, and feeds Black youth into a Harvard debate summer residency.
Author and inquiry educator Jessica Vance is another of this year's keynote speakers. Jessica's journey and experience in International Baccalaureate schools and place-based education fuels her passion and global work in coaching both teachers and leaders in their roles, as well as supporting schools in implementing inquiry-based learning. In her publication, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry, she outlines the ways we, as leaders, need to support and facilitate our teachers in the same ways in which we want our teachers to engage with their students. Her forthcoming book (anticipated release early 2025) highlights the importance of documentation as a means to support student assessment, retrieval and reflection process.
Information on other speakers is coming soon!
Additional Information
Registration includes training, materials, breakfast (6/9, 6/10), and lunch (6/9, 6/10). The Arizona K12 Center will book private sleeping room accommodations for the night of June 9th, ONLY if you choose to register with lodging accommodations.
All times listed are in MST/Phoenix, AZ time.
All times listed are in MST/Phoenix, AZ time.
Dates & Locations
Event Time
Jun 09, 2025, 09:00 am - 05:00 pm
Jun 10, 2025, 09:00 am - 04:00 pm
Check-in Time
Jun 09, 2025 at 08:00 am
Jun 10, 2025 at 08:00 am
Venue
Registration Fee
$ 316.00
Registration with Lodging Accommodation Fee
$ 445.00
Registration Deadline
May 09, 2025
