2025
CONFERENCE

Grab a mug and let’s get connected!

Colorado has a number of innovative, deeper learning schools across the state. Some are affiliated with national networks such as Big Picture Learning, EL, or the New Tech Network. Many are stand-alone beacons that are receiving local, state, or national recognition.

The goals of the Colorado Innovates conference are to share the awesomeness, better connect our trailblazing educators, and learn about the amazing things that are happening in other schools across the state. Interesting learning is happening all across Colorado, but the transformative school in Greeley may not know about the cool stuff occurring in Durango or Denver. Similarly, the lighthouse school in Cañon City may not be connected with what is happening in Steamboat Springs or Silverton.

On Saturday, May 3, 2025, forty innovative Colorado schools will give forty unique, live, online presentations. Attendance is free and 80% of the slots are reserved for Colorado educators. Whether you already work in a deeper learning school or would like to learn more from educators who may be further along the journey, we hope that you will join us.

Let’s gather together, share out, and celebrate each other!

Sessions

Each interactive, online conference session will emphasize one or more of the following:

• hands-on, active, experiential learning by students;

• high levels of student agency, voice, choice, and ownership;

• deep, robust student creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration;

• students who are engaged in authentic, real-world work and problem-solving;

• students who are making positive impacts in local or global contexts;

• place-based, community-engaged partnerships; and/or

• creative and empowering student use of digital tools, learning technologies, and online platforms.

Sessions will NOT be recorded. Similar to a live conference, we are encouraging participants to be actively present and to learn and engage with each other rather than passively watching a recording later.

Schedule

• 8:45am to 9:45am – Sessions 1 to 8

• 10:00am to 11:00am – Sessions 9 to 16

• 11:15am to 12:15pm – Sessions 17 to 24

• Lunch break

• 12:45pm to 1:45pm – Sessions 25 to 32

• 2:00pm to 3:00pm – Sessions 33 to 40