Discover a Range of Sessions Featuring Educators This Teacher Appreciation Day | SXSW EDU 2024

Whether it be in the classroom or virtual space — with textbooks or technology – educators play a critical role in shaping students of all ages to reach their highest potential.

Educators work beyond facts and figures to build trust with their students, foster creativity, encourage curiosity, and cultivate critical thinking. Through these relationships and their experiences, they know what challenges students are up against in the classroom.

At SXSW EDU 2024, educators from around the world will be taking the stage to share their expertise and tackle the biggest challenges facing their industry today. Explore some of this year’s sessions featuring educator voices and save them to your schedule to attend next week.

Watch or listen to a selection of these sessions, bolded below:

Conversations

Same Same but Different: Meaningful Arts for All Abilities
Unleashing the Potential: Therapy Dogs in Education

Featured Sessions

ACL: 50 Years of Live Music, 50 Years of Music Education
Centering Blackness: Educate... Inform & Innovate!
Finding Your Leadership Soul
For the World to Come: Exploding How We Do Civics in Schools
How Cultures of Growth Transform Students--and Teachers
How Do We Find the Good at a Time Like This?
Providing a Voice & Making the Nevers Possible for ALL
Takeaways from Our Freshman Year of D&D in Schools

Film Screening

She Creates Change
The Truth About Reading
We Are Columbine

Meet Ups

Multilingual Learners & Teachers Meet Up
Solo Attendee Meet Up

Mentor Sessions

Christine Norton
Karen Landolt
Michael Hernandez
Natasha Welcome
Wendy Zajack

Panels

#R-E-S-P-E-C-T: How Do We Get Some for Teachers?
A Journey Through Time: Rehearsing Challenging Emotions in XR
Addressing Inequity in Rural Education Through Collaboration
AI-Enabled Teacher Coaching: Opportunities & Challenges
All Pathways to Opportunity Should Come with Directions
Brown at 70: Can Separate Ever Be Equal?
Compassionate Classrooms: Empathy, Hunger Issues, & Wellbeing
Creating a Sustainable Path to Neuroinclusion with XR
Creating Relevancy in a New Age of Public Education
Creativity Is the Durable Skill That AI Can’t Replace
Decolonizing Study Abroad Through Cultural Heritage Programs
Discover Scholastic Esports: Engaging a Diverse Generation!
Drag Story Hour: A Magical Portal for Change & Advocacy
Educators on the Frontlines of the Gun Violence Epidemic
Empowering Educators: Shifting the Role of Teachers
Holistic & Transformative Support for UndocuScholars
How Colleges Can Overcome Anti-Diversity Headwinds
How Federal Partnerships Are Transforming ED R&D
How to Help Teachers Under Attack from Teachers Who Lived It
How to Wow K-5 Through Podcasts & Storytelling
Lead by Learning: Rewire Systems for Participatory Change
Let's End Turnover & Make Teaching the Job Everyone Wants
Making Afterschool Learning Count
Making Data Science That’s Really for Everyone
Making the Most of Middle School Math
Navigating Climate Anxiety with Resilience & Hope
Next Generation Classroom: Using AI to Unlock Creativity
Own Your Narrative: Transformative Student-Designed Stories
Policy to Practice: Literacy Equity Through the CO READ Act
Print on Purpose: Hearts & Crafts at Stanford's d.school
Space Skills for Careers on Earth
The Nature Gap: Why ‘Outdoors for All’ Matters
The Rather Prize: Innovative Ideas in TX Education
The Rise of Surveillance Technology in Schools
UNESCO Learning Cities: Supporting Lifelong Learning*

Performances

Bigger Than Hip-Hop: Why Folks Say It Controls Your Brain
Knowledge of Self: Poetry Performance, Workshop, & Open Mic

Podcasts

Conversando: Building an Ecosystem for Latina Prosperity
EdSurge Podcast: Examining the Impact of the 'College is a Scam' Narrative
EWA Radio: Considering Concentrated Poverty in K-12 Funding*

Roundtable Discussions

Developing Culturally Responsive Math Curriculum
Leading DEI Efforts
Supporting Multilingual Learning & Learners

Solos

AI & the Future of Learning
Beyond Borders: Using Choral Music Education to Connect
Confessions of an ‘Affirmative Action’ Baby
EdTech for Littles
Helping Students Rebuild Academic & Social Skills Post-Covid
Hip-Hop & Politics: Political Education & Radical Tradition
Joyful Learning Centers Racial Equity in Classrooms
Social Belonging in College: Where Science Meets Practice
Student Designed Schedules: Centering Power with Youth
Teaching Ideas with Visual Thinking
The Future of Mental Health Education*

Workshops

Black Girl Futurism: Empower Through Imagination Innovation
Creating Student Agency in Your Career Exploration Classroom
EnchantEd: Magic Tricks to Engage & Inspire
Exploring Avenues for Impact in Post-Pandemic Education
Generative AI in Class: Female Leadership Perspectives
Get Wise About Student Feedback & Belonging
How to Achieve Impact as an EdTech Venture
Micro-Mystery: A Citizen Science Project for the Ocean
Mindful Meeples: Problem Solving Thru Tabletop Game Design
Strengthening Multilingual Communities Through Our Stories
Teaching Students to Tell Stories with Data
The Future of Preschool Research

Watch SXSW EDU 2024 On-Demand Content

Take a look back at SXSW EDU 2024 and relive exciting Keynote, Featured Sessions, and more, now available to watch on our official YouTube channel, plus listen to hundreds of audio recordings in the schedule.

Stay tuned for more information about registration and participation opportunities for SXSW EDU 2025 coming later this summer.

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