Announcing 230 Sessions Accredited by ATPE for Continuing Professional Education Credits at SXSW EDU 2025
At SXSW EDU, not only are you taking in new and innovative information, but you can walk away with new continuing professional education (CPE) credits as well!
We have partnered with the Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) and are proud to announce that 230 sessions in the program will be accredited for CPE credits.
These sessions will tackle a diverse range of important topics, including AI in education, the importance of libraries, the power of hip-hop pedagogy, climate change, and much more.
Get Your CPE Credit
After participating in an accredited session during SXSW EDU, make note of the unique code provided in the session room.
Please note: Not all sessions are eligible for CPE credit, and out-of-state attendees may claim credit but must submit their certificate to their own state board for consideration.
To claim your CPE credit, visit atpe.org/sxsw-edu and complete the instructions to claim credit. You will receive a certificate in the ATPE Professional Learning Portal within 24-48 hrs.
If you encounter any issues, please email prof_dev@atpe.org.
Have questions or want to learn more? Stop by the ATPE activation outside of Ballroom D in the Austin Convention Center to meet with their representatives.
Explore This Year’s Accredited Sessions
Accessibility & Inclusion
- Amplifying Student Perspectives & Learner Agency: UDL 3.0
- Beneath the Mask: Autism in Education
- Bridging the Gap: Centering Students with Disabilities
- Community-Driven Approaches to Inclusive AI Education
- EdTech for Good: Advancing Accessibility
- Game On for Inclusivity!
- Inclusive EdTech: Unpacking Title II ADA Regulations
- Leading with Inclusion: EdTech for Every Learner
- Statewide Inclusion Strategies Steering Student Success
- Stay Spicy: Elevating the Power of Neurodiversity
- Storytelling to Spotlight Lived Experiences of Deaf People
- Tools for Teachers to Become Digital Accessibility Designers
- Wilderness Adventures for Inclusive Learning
- XR as a Neurosolution: In Theory & in Practice
Arts & Storytelling
- AI-Powered Theatremaking
- An Adventurer’s Guide to Gamification
- Artivism: The Power of Art to Inspire & Change the World
- Be Curious: The Fusion of Grammy Winning Hip Hop & Science
- Building the Next Generation of Black Ballerinas
- Edutainment Revolution: Merging Culture & Learning
- Global Cypher: Building Inclusive Classrooms Through Music
- Harmonizing Minds: Reimagining & Expanding Music in School
- How Popular Media Can Help Kids Navigate the Climate Crisis
- Humanities 2.0: Data Storytelling Across Curricula
- Let's Kikabou! Puppets Are Tomorrow's Playful Educators
- Leveling Up: Game Design Pathways to College & Career
- Mic Check: Podcasting with NPR, The Bell, & PBS News SRL
- Raising Courageous Bystanders
- Revolutionizing the Future of Media & Education
- School is a Badly Designed Game: RPGs for the Classroom
- Story is Power: Bringing Civil Rights into Your Classroom
- The Power of Film in Classrooms & Teacher Training
- Three Innovators Discuss Books, Media, & Entrepreneurship
- Unpacking the Emotional Power of Six-Word Memoir Posters
Community Initiatives
- Activating the Power of Communities for Radical Change
- Boosting Family Engagement: Public Media & State Synergy
- Challenge Accepted: How Gen Z is Serving & Improving Communities
- Community Power: Elevating Youth Through Learning Ecosystems
- Community Power: How Local Initiatives Transcend Politics
- Defending the Right to Read: Working Together
- Empowering Youth-Led Service: Research, Resources & Roadmaps
- From Evidence to Impact: Raising Aspirations for Rural Youth
- Glocal FTW: Cross-Sector Partnerships for Collective Impact
- How Sport Can Ignite Change Alongside Schools & Communities
- Inspiring Action: A Guidebook to Family-School Engagement
- No Family Left Behind: Boost Multicultural Parent Engagement
- Parents as Educators: Reenvisioning the Teaching Workforce
- Partnership = Community Empowerment: UK & US Trailblazers
- Reimagining Everyday Places as Early Learning Hubs
- Strengthening Community Through Cradle-to-Career Partnership
- Strengthening Family-School Connections with EdTech
- The Pivotal Role of Community Engagement in School Safety
- The Scaling Mystery: Cracking the Code to Spread Good Ideas
- The Untapped Learning Space: Children’s Museums
- Young People Want to Change the World—Here's How We Can Help
Equity & Justice
- “It's Not Magic, It's Science!”
- Belonging: A Neurological Imperative for Students
- Building a Pro-Indigenous & Pro-Black Preschool
- Bureaucracy Can't Love You: Kin, Educators & Child Welfare
- Creating Anti-Racist & Liberated Early Learning Environments
- Design & Disrupt: Ending the Pipeline
- Developing a Whole-School Approach to LGBTQ+ Inclusion
- Digital Counterspaces for Black Women & Girls Post-DEI
- Elevating the Teaching Profession with Latinx Educators
- Empathy inEquity: Navigating an Anti-DEI Literary Landscape
- Engaging Men & Boys to End Gender-Based Violence
- Indigenous Learning Systems: Language Revitalization & Education
- Legacy Black Students & Positive Socialization in Schools
- P.S. Weekly: Teen Journalists Dig into Educational Inequities in NYC
- Screening Bias: Breaking Down Barriers for Women in STEM on TV
- Student Perspectives: Equitable Solutions in Rural Education
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in Challenging Times
- The Ethical Use of AI in the Education of Black Children
- The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators: Youth at the Center
- The Transformative Power of Hip Hop Pedagogy
- The Unapologetically Anti-Racist Educator
- Thriving in Chaos: Tools for Sustainable Change
- Trans Teachers Talk Back
- Weaving an Inclusive Social Fabric for America
Future of Tech
- AI & the Future of Education
- AI in Action: Innovative Approaches in Schools & Districts
- AI in Education: Preparing Gen A as the Creators of Tomorrow
- AI Tools to Support Literacy & Computational Thinking
- AI, Education & Real Classrooms
- Data-Driven Equity: R&D Platforms for Math Learning
- Ed-Technical: Evidence Eats AI for Breakfast
- Enough Talk! Let’s Play with AI
- How AI Makes Assessment More Actionable in Instruction
- Mental Health + Money + AI
- Quantum in the Classroom: Preparing Tomorrow's Innovators
- Responsible AI & Tech Justice for K-12 Education
- Responsible AI: Balancing Innovation, Impact, & Ethics
- Teaching the Holocaust Using AR & the Sobibor Uprising
- The AI Sandbox: Building Your Own Future of Learning
- The Future of Teaching in an Age of AI
Global Initiatives
- Bridging Borders: Global Potential via English Exchanges
- Building Climate Resilient Schools: Insights from Barbados
- Climate Change, AI, & Future of the Planet
- Ghana & the Diaspora in Educational Dialogue
- Global Life Skills Learnings: An Elemental Approach
- Innovate for Impact: Design Community Solutions with AI
- Integrating Environmental Literacy into the Classroom
- Prepare Students for Tomorrow, Teach the Future Today
- Reigniting Your Professional Passion Through Teaching Abroad
- Teaching Climate Change Across Disciplines in 2025
- Unleashing Student Agency: Worldwide Evidence & Practice
- Unlocking Access: Education & Integration Through Culture
Health & Wellbeing
- Activate Learning: The Movement Effect
- Become a Culture Architect: Wellbeing & Well-Doing at Work
- Capacity, Care & Community for Educators
- Creating Grief Informed Classrooms: Collective Support
- Essential Skills for Cultivating Healthy Student Achievement
- Feeling Thoughts: Perspective-Taking, Mindfulness, & You
- Healing Racial Battle Fatigue & Reconnecting with Joy
- Homework that Fights Anxiety in Students AND Parents
- How Educator Wellness Positively Impacts Student Outcomes
- Integrating Healthcare & Early Childhood Education
- Jive to Thrive: Dance Workshop for Teen Health & Mind
- Keeping Kids Safe Online: The Imperative of Parent Education
- Mental Health: It Takes a Village
- More Than an Escape: The Outdoors as a Frontline Solution
- Nature-Based Learning in a Classroom Setting
- Navigating Mental Health When Calamity Is Our New Ordinary
- Nurturing the Nurturer: A Blueprint for Black Male Educators
- Phone-Free Their Minds: The Return of Curiosity & Creativity
- Promoting SEL Acceptance to Parents & the Wider Community
- Revolutionizing Workplace Wellbeing for Adults & Students
- Schools, Foster Care, & Families: Innovating for Equity
- Screens to Solutions: A Youth-Led Tech Revolution
- SEL & Music to Cultivate Community & Curb Absenteeism
- Sex Ed in Schools: Just as Important as ABCs & 123s
- What Makes Us Human? Preparing Young People for the AI Age
- What’s Really Taught in Sex Ed & How Do We Fight for It?
Leadership for Tomorrow
- A Healing-Centered Approach to Girls’ Leadership Development
- A Tool to Bring Your Campus Vision to Life
- Beyond Compromise: Mastering Negotiation to Advance Women
- Beyond Impossible: How to Thrive in the Superintendency
- Developing Curriculum? Ask the Students First
- Education Beat: Undocumented Student Civic Engagement in the Trump Era
- Engaging & Equipping Youth to Serve Communities
- Inclusive R&D in Education: A Hands-On Workshop
- Level Up Your Leadership: Energize, Empower, & Elevate
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Conversation on Leadership
- Making Standards Worth Teaching To
- School Reframe: Reinvigorate Your Work with Creative Hustle
- Sharing Space: From the ISS to the Next Generation
- Sustaining the Black Principal Pipeline
- Tomorrow's Principal Podcast: Leading Through Political Turmoil
- Transformative School Leadership for Youth Civic Engagement
- West Texas Space Pioneer: Breaking Boundaries at NASA
- Why is the Industrial Model of School So Hard to Change?
- You Belong in Libraries
- Youth-Adult Partnership for Inclusive Decision-Making
- Youth-Led STEM: A Seismic Shift in Education
Policy & Advocacy
- $mart Moves: Investing in Teacher Pay & Retention
- A Path Forward: Strengthening Pre-K Across the Nation
- A Windy City Breakthrough: Data to Drive Youth Progress
- Advancing Educational Justice Through School Boards
- Build Civics Skills with Educational Media for the Classroom
- Centering Equity amid Declining Enrollment
- Crossing the Partisan Divide in Education Policy
- Economic Mobility & Belonging for Undocumented Students
- Funding the Future: Investing in Innovative Public Choice
- Great Expectations: Why High Standards Are Key to Success
- Making Refugee Student Populations Seen: Data's Influence
- Navigating the Future of EdTech: Insights from State Leaders
- Storytelling to Remove Barriers to Educational Opportunity
- Utilizing Data to Drive Real Results in Academic Recovery
Startups & Investment
- AI in EdTech: Avoid 5 Oversights for Sustainable Impact!
- Early-Stage Funding for K-12 Schools
- Ed Finance Outlook: Which Districts Will Be Buying?
- How to Prepare for Education R&D: A Logic Model Workshop
- Seeding Innovation: The Power of Breakthrough Funding
Teaching & Learning
- All Kids Are Math Kids: From Sorting to Teaching in Math
- Anthropos Arts - Inverting the Music Education Pyramid
- Boosting Student Engagement Means Getting Serious About Play
- Breaking Silos/Building Bridges
- Build-a-Bot Workshop: Make Your Own AI to Make Sense of AI
- Building Education for a Radically Different Future
- Civics by Students, for Students: Depolarizing via Discourse
- Creating Songs for STEM Success with STEMusic!
- EdTech for Littles 2.0
- Empowering Educators: Co-Creating with Teacher Partners
- Empowering Media Literacy Through Games
- Engineering a New Perspective: Indigenous Wisdom in STEM
- Expanding Career Exploration for All Learners
- Exploring Teacher Morale State by State
- Family Creative Learning - Scratch Home Project
- From Daunting to Doable: How to Empower the Next Generation
- From Ideas to Impact: Developing Creative Problem Solvers
- Future Ready Impact: Redefining How We Measure Success
- Game Design Docs Are Better Than Class Lesson Plans
- Getting Smart Podcast: Humanizing Pathways: Leadership Soul in Action
- Helping Youth Talk About the Israel-Palestine Conflict
- How Youth Use GenAI: Time to Rethink Plagiarism
- Jupyter Everywhere - A Modern Tool for K12 Data Science
- Learning from Productive Failure
- Learning How to Work with Your Enemies
- MindShift KQED: Can Better Conversations Improve Media Literacy Among Students?
- My Students Can't Write!
- Nourishing Minds: The Power of Food in Early Learning
- Perspectives on Working at Scale in K-12 STEAM Education
- Reach for the Green Light: Gatsby, Literary Theory, & AI
- Reinventing High School for the 21st Century & Beyond
- Rewiring How We Learn: The Power of an Experimental Mindset
- Segregation Can Be Found in Libraries, So We Mapped It!
- SkillQuest: Shaping Future-Ready Students with Soft Skills
- Spark Student-Led Inquiry & Ignite Curiosity
- Student Forecasting: Decision-Making Through Tournament Play
- Teaching Civil Discourse in the Classroom
- Teaching Difficult Histories: Private Colleges & Public K-12
- Teaching the Headlines When World News Strikes
- The Art of Empathy: NYU x Whitney Museum Collaboration
- The State of Teaching: State & National Perspectives
- Think Like a Scientist with Hands-On Learning
- Using Escape Rooms to Unlock the Future of STEM Education
- Voices from the Field: Building Data Science Success in K-12
- We Love You Here: Decreasing Chronic Absenteeism
- When PBL Solves a Cold Case: Unpacking Murder 101 Podcast
- Yes You Can! Boosting Student Confidence Raises Grades
Work Reimagined
- Cleveland’s Collective Impact Approach to Career Pathways
- Detroit's Blueprint: Scaling Educational Impact
- Industry-Aligned K-12 Pathways & the STEM Jobs of Tomorrow
- Interest Spark: Getting from Interest to Action in 90 Mins
- Million Dollar Advice: Navigating the Workplace with Amy Poehler’s Top Execs
- Rock n' Roll Will Save Our Schools
- Rural Renaissance: Building Tech Talent Outside City Limits
- Scaling Apprenticeship Statewide: Lessons from Indiana
- Women at Work: Navigating the Hidden Curriculum: What Schools Don't Teach Women About Work
- Youth Innovation Careers: Prototyping New Program Models
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By Auva Saghafi
02/19/2025
