Save the date!
Our fall conference is returning this year to the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, AK on November 14-15, 2026.
This professional learning event offers two dynamic tracks:
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Gain tools and strategies to increase student motivation and learning while decreasing behavior problems. This enriching professional learning experience will help you achieve more success in your teaching.
Experience and take with you powerful practices to:
Get and keep students focused
Teach effectively with diverse learners, such as -
Multi-age groups
Varying background knowledge
Multi-grade classrooms
High and low-achieving students
Enhance learning and achievement by elevating student involvement
Raise the participation of resistant or misbehaving learners
Reduce anxiety and frustration for your students and for yourself
Save time!
Returning educators will further develop skills and master practices. Participants benefit significantly from repeated opportunities to reflect on their efforts and glean fresh insights.
These educators will also gain:
Valuable next steps
Greater depth and breadth of implementation
Essential nuances for more success with more students
Additional tools and strategies for effectively reaching struggling and resistant learners
Facilitator: Beth Buchanan
About Beth
As an educator and administrator, Beth has nearly 30 years of experience incorporating tools, strategies, and concepts from leading educational practitioners who have generated five decades of research-supported, evidence-based best practices. Beth’s professional development and coaching are highly praised for their practicality, solid grounding, and connection to actual situations from her own teaching and that of others with whom she has worked. She has facilitated focus sessions from Spence Rogers and Renee Brice in their nationwide PEAK Teaching for Excellence academies and institutes.
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You are likely already serving as a crucial point of connection for young people, often without realizing it. But how do we intentionally move to building an environment where students actively seek out supportive adult relationships?
Use the Full-Color Web of Support™ framework to create actionable steps to:
increase the likelihood that students will see you as a potential “anchor,”
offer support with intentionality, and
design connected spaces.
Gather new perspectives and strategies for how we show up for youth and the many dimensions of connection that shape how students experience learning, belonging, and success.
Registration
Adult - $349 ($299 with early bird discount)
Adult + High School Student team - $450 ($400 with early bird discount)
College student with valid ID - $250 ($200 with early bird discount)
Team Discounts
Register 3-5 people together → 20% off
Register 6 or more → 25% off
(Discounts apply to regular-priced registration and will be automatically applied at checkout.)