Mind Molder: Reach Your Goals at SXSW EDU 2025

Educators shape the future by laying the foundation for young minds to grow, learn, and thrive.

This March, enhance your skills as a Mind Molder by attending sessions and workshops focusing on how to better influence the next generation in the changing educational landscape. Take in the perspectives of other elementary educators and walk away ready to make an even greater impact in your classroom.

Have an Open Mind

Join the Panel Engaging & Equipping Youth to Serve Communities for an enlightening conversation about how The Allstate Foundation is working to empower youth to serve and improve communities. Discover ways you can encourage and inspire youth to serve in classrooms, at home, and even the broader community.

Learn the importance of a mentally healthy and emotionally balanced educator in the Panel How Educator Wellness Positively Impacts Student Outcomes. By being healthy, you can create a more positive learning environment and provide better instruction.

Explore More Sessions:

• AI in Education: Preparing Gen A as the Creators of Tomorrow 
• Build Civics Skills with Educational Media for the Classroom
• Capacity, Care & Community for Educators 
• Community Power: Elevating Youth Through Learning Ecosystems 
• Data-Driven Equity: R&D Platforms for Math Learning 
• Defending the Right to Read: Working Together 
• Empowering Media Literacy Through Games 
• From Daunting to Doable: How to Empower the Next Generation
• Future Ready Impact: Redefining How We Measure Success
• The Future of Teaching in an Age of AI
• Homework that Fights Anxiety in Students AND Parents
• Let's Kikabou! Puppets Are Tomorrow's Playful Educators
• Making Standards Worth Teaching To
• Perspectives on Working at Scale in K-12 STEAM Education
• Screens to Solutions: A Youth-Led Tech Revolution
• Nature-Based Learning in a Classroom Setting
• Prepare Students for Tomorrow, Teach the Future Today

Learn Through Play

Participate in the Workshop Feeling Thoughts: Perspective-Taking, Mindfulness, & You to learn how to navigate as an educator in a world of instant gratification. This workshop will introduce strategies for bringing clay and mindfulness into your classrooms and school communities.

How often are students told to "go brainstorm and be creative" without showing them how? What does that even mean? The Workshop From Ideas to Impact: Developing Creative Problem Solvers explores making creativity visible and collaborative, emphasizing problem-solving and organization.

Explore More Workshops:

• Creating Grief Informed Classrooms: Collective Support 
• Student Forecasting: Decision-Making Through Tournament Play                 
• My Students Can't Write!
• EdTech for Littles 2.0
• Design & Disrupt: Ending the Pipeline 
• Empowering Youth-Led Service: Research, Resources & Roadmaps 
• Creating Anti-Racist & Liberated Early Learning Environments 
• Quantum in the Classroom: Preparing Tomorrow's Innovators

Use Your Listening Ears

Attend the Podcast The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators: Youth at the Core to hear the stories of Black educators who have left traditional education spaces and better understand the challenges of retaining Black educators.

Most students in U.S. public schools are young people of color, however, over 80% of their teachers are white. Attend the Podcast From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood: Is This Conversation Against the Law Now? to dive into how white educators can understand and address these dynamics and how they must evolve to create liberatory learning.

Don’t Miss Out On SXSW EDU 2025

Register and book your hotel today to break new ground in education through compelling sessions, in-depth workshops, mentorship, film screenings, trailblazing competitions, a dynamic expo, networking opportunities, and so much more at SXSW EDU from March 3-6, 2025.

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