Elevate PD Conference-1/15/27

Elevate Your Learning - From Inspiration to Impact!

Hunterdon Central Regional High School is hosting its annual Elevate Your Learning Professional Development Conference on Friday, January 15, 2027 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (with check-in starting at 8:30 a.m.). Learn about effective strategies, best practices, and innovative tools to elevate your learning and help you go from inspiration to impact!

Over 50 sessions are anticipated to be offered with a mix of deep dive sessions lasting one hour and spark sessions of 30 minutes.

This conference is open to K-12 educators, administrators, and support staff from any school district in Hunterdon County, including Hunterdon Central, or our neighboring counties. 

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⭐CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

All proposals must be submitted electronically through our Google Form (form opens on August 31st). Proposals for sessions designed to help educators elevate their instruction are due by October 14, 2026.  

We invite passionate K-12 educators, researchers, administrators, and education technology specialists to submit proposals for presentations that align with our theme and offer valuable insights and actionable takeaways for their peers. To further refine our conference theme, we have developed several conference strands to organize the day. 

Conference Strands (Suggested Topics - but not limited to):

• Serving All Students: Differentiated instruction, MTSS supports, speech therapy, case manager support, personalized learning pathways 
• Best Practices: Project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, interdisciplinary approaches, or designed with specific disciplines in mind
• Tech Integration: Blended learning, flipped classrooms, AI, organizing yourself digitally for success, virtual reality, digital literacy, and home instruction
• Wellness: Social and Emotional Learning, self-care for educators, trauma-informed practices, mindfulness, fostering resilience, decision-making, and building strong home-school partnerships, culturally responsive teaching
• Leadership: building positive classroom communities, leveraging data for instructional improvement, mentorship programs, leadership opportunities/pipeline within schools, effective collaboration, cultivating student leadership, service learning

Key Dates:

• Call for Proposals Opens: August 31, 2026
• Proposal Submission Deadline: October 14, 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: By October 21, 2026. Presenters of accepted proposals will be automatically registered for the conference.

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REGISTRATION:

Registration is only required for attendees that are not employed by Hunterdon Central Regional High School District. Registration Form coming in November!

For any inquiries, please contact Dr. Matthew Hall, Director of Curriculum & Instruction at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, at matthew.hall@hcrhs.org.  

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LIST OF SESSIONS - YOU PICK YOUR OWN TOPICS!

We invited passionate K-12 educators, researchers, administrators, and education technology specialists to submit proposals for presentations that align with our "Elevate" theme and offer valuable insights and actionable takeaways for their peers.

To further refine our conference theme, approved sessions were divided into several conference strands:

• Supporting All Students: Differentiated instruction, MTSS supports, speech therapy, case manager support, personalized learning pathways 
• Best Practices: Project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, interdisciplinary approaches, or designed with specific disciplines in mind
• Tech Integration: Blended learning, flipped classrooms, AI, organizing yourself digitally for success, virtual reality, digital literacy, and home instruction
• Wellness: Social and Emotional Learning, self-care for educators, trauma-informed practices, mindfulness, fostering resilience, decision-making, and building strong home-school partnerships, culturally responsive teaching 
• Leadership: building positive classroom communities, leveraging data for instructional improvement, mentorship programs, leadership opportunities/pipeline within schools, effective collaboration, cultivating student leadership, service learning

List of sessions topics will be available about a month before the conference. Some are being offered across multiple time slots so people don't miss out.

Utilize Notebook LM to narrow down your choices!
Sample prompt to help you find sessions based on your interests:  I am a (insert job title) attending this conference, and I'd like a personalized schedule of what I should attend based on my interests and growth goals. Can you build me an itinerary of options that include (insert interests), and organize it sequentially?

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