Registration is now open!
June 24, 2025
One-Day Virtual Summit
School & District Leaders
Meet Every Learner’s Needs
The summit is open to all leaders who support educators, including principals, assistant principals, district leaders, instructional coaches, and department heads.
Modern Classrooms Leadership Collaborative
This network of innovative school and district leaders committed to deepening their knowledge of our instructional model supporting educators in creating a more sustainable teaching profession, and building student-centered classrooms.
Nationwide Network
Innovative leaders from a diverse set of districts and schools
Summer Summit
A virtual conference for leaders to learn, share ideas, and collaboratively plan
Quarterly Collaboration
Leaders collaborate on common Problems of Practice and receive ongoing virtual support
Leaders Committed to Transformation
Imagine a network of passionate school and district leaders, united in their commitment to student success. That's the power of the Leadership Collaborative. Here, innovation sparks as leaders connect, share groundbreaking strategies, and deepen their capacity to meet the unique needs of every learner.
See the impact firsthand! Discover how a leader from The Game Development Design School in Texas found inspiration within this collaborative, leading to transformative changes in instruction across their entire school with the Modern Classrooms Project.
"This has been the most productive and supportive work I've done with a partner - I came away with great actionable insights.” - School Leader, Annapolis, Maryland
Leadership Collaborative Programming
The Leadership Collaborative Summit convenes leaders from around the country for a day of workshops focused on equipping leaders with the information and tools they need to support educators implementing the Modern Classrooms approach.
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Join us as we launch the Leadership Collaborative Summit with an engaging overview of the day's powerful content. This initial session is strategically designed to help you define your learning objectives and establish a clear path forward. We also provide dedicated breakout spaces for teams to connect and collaborate with other leaders, fostering a shared vision for implementing the Modern Classrooms approach and amplifying its impact.
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Opening Keynote:
Robert Barnett, author of Meet Every Learner’s Needs and Co-Founder of Modern Classrooms Project, will provide actionable frameworks for creating engaging lessons with digital instruction and mastery-based assessment, building self-paced courses that truly personalize learning, and empowering you to lead instructional change at all levels of your educational community.
Closing Keynote:
Modern Classrooms Project Co-Founder and CEO Kareem Farah will be taking on the role of moderator to lead an insightful and thought-provoking discussion of national thought leaders. This closing conversation will expand our thinking and focus on the evolving landscape of learning design in K-12 education. We aim to share perspectives, exchange ideas, and contemplate potential solutions for leaders who are navigating the complexities and opportunities ahead.
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Ignite sessions highlight educators and leaders within the Modern Classrooms network. Sessions include:
Classroom Leadership: Expert Modern Classrooms Mentor Mathew DiMond shares the details of his classroom transformation and his vision for how teachers can lead the MCP movement from the classroom. Join this session for practical strategies and examples of MCP implementation.
Data & Continuous Improvement: District coordinator Leslie Ronchak shares her tips for collecting data on MCP implementation and continuously improving support strategies.
School Transformation and Student Achievement: Former school leader and current district leader Crystal Deaver shares how she leveraged mastery-based, self-paced, and blended learning strategies to transform her school and lead her staff to significant gains in student achievement. She will share tips, videos, data, and resources supporting her journey.
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Each participant can choose their own learning during this time, leaning into the specific skills or knowledge they need to support educators. This year’s sessions include:
Shift to Student-Led Learning: Classroom Workflows with UDL & Blended Learning with Dr. Catlin Tucker
Responsive School Improvement with Matthew Hickson and Drew Shantz
Leveraging Wavio for Mastery Learning with Dana Kravchick, CEO of Wavio
Modern Classrooms Project University: Leveraging Bite-Sized PL Resources with Meg McGregor
Supporting English Language Learners with Toni Rose Deanon
Sessions will be recorded and shared with all who register.
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During the lunch block, we’ll host breakout rooms for teacher leaders, school leaders, and district leaders to share ideas and collaborate.
After lunch, we’ll create spaces for teams from the same school or district to debrief and plan. Groups of 3 or more leaders are invited to complimentary planning sessions with members of the Modern Classrooms team during and after the Summit.
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After the summer 2024 Summit, we hosted quarterly meetups in September, November, February, and April to guide implementation and collaborate with other leaders. Each meetup focused on deepening the knowledge and skills leaders need to support Modern Classrooms in their community.
Opening Keynote: Robert Barnett
Modern Classrooms Co-Founder and Author
Join Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) co-founder and Chief Product Officer Robert Barnett, and a few special guests, to learn:
Why traditional methods of instruction fail to meet so many learners’ needs.
How teachers around the world are using research-backed teaching practices to keep each of their students appropriately challenged - and appropriately supported - every day.
What you can do to support student-centered teaching and learning in your own work.
Robert will share insights from his new book, Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Students Can Succeed, which explains how he developed the Modern Classroom model in his own classroom, and offers practical strategies from many of the educators this approach has empowered.
"The Leadership Collaborative helped me understand that the MCP model revolutionizes teacher time and optimizes their ability to provide individual instruction and feedback in real-time.” - School Leader, New Haven, Connecticut
Impact of the Summit
The data from the 2024 Summit is clear: leaders who attend are better equipped to support educators in implementing blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning in their schools.