Upcoming Events
Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused
In our mission to promote high academic achievement for all students at all levels, we host events around the country to learn from, inform, and empower educators, advocates, parents, and policy makers.
Check out any of our upcoming events, or browse back through our past events for summaries and available materials.
In Their Voices: Students Speak with Secretary Cardona
Hear student panelists from Michigan, New York, and Tennessee in a conversation with Secretary Cardona on June 24 from 7-8 p.m. ET. Students will share their o…
PLENARY: A Celebration of 2020 Advocacy in the States and Closing Remarks
Thank you for joining us for Ed Trust's April 2021 Equity Matters Bootcamp.As we come to a close we want to celebrate all the amazing work done in 2020 for equ…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Justice Fellows Policy Program Leading the Work with Justice Impacted Individuals
In this session, participants will hear from Ed Trust’s Justice Fellows on the issues impacting justice-impacted students. We will highlight the importance of …
BREAKOUT SESSION: Promise of Partnerships for Teacher Diversity
In this session, participants will hear from experts from Ed Trust and TNTP and practitioners from all levels of the teacher preparation system—the state, dist…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Asset-Based SEAD Policies and Practices to Support Students Returning to In-person Learning
The past year has been ripe with narratives about how students are struggling socially and emotionally, experiencing trauma, and falling behind academically. T…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Food Security as a Means of Realizing Education Equity
Our nation is in the midst of a pandemic, an economic downturn, and a continued reckoning with racial inequities and injustice. As a result, many students’ bas…
BREAKOUT SESSION: A Necessary Tool: Utilizing the Higher Ed Immigration Portal to Improve Educational Equity for Undocumented and Other Immigrant Students
In this session, participants will get an overview of a new tool from the Presidents Alliance, which maps out all the education policies impacting undocumented…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Federal Education Policy & Advocacy Opportunities in 2021
It has been over one year since the COVID-19 pandemic changed our education system as we know it in almost an instant. During that same timeframe, Congress act…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Relationships Matter: How to Build and Maintain Relationships with Reporters
Cultivating relationships with the media can feel like a daunting task for advocates trying to juggle it all. In this session, participants will learn about wh…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Dismantling Systemic Racism in Early Care and Education
States are receiving an unprecedented amount of funding for early care and education while facing unprecedented challenges in meeting the needs of our youngest…
PLENARY: Centering Families in Reimagining Education
On day two of Ed Trust's April 2021 Equity Matters Bootcamp, we started with a conversation between John B. King Jr. and Karen L. Mapp about the importance of …
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Focus on the 87th Texas Legislative Session – Equity Matters Bootcamp
During both days of Ed Trust’s virtual Bootcamp on April 14-15, we focused our time together as Texas advocates on key bills headed into the final weeks of the…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Unfinished Learning: A Crisis with a Solution
In this session, participants will learn about strategies to solve unfinished learning including: Intensive tutoring, extended learning time, and the importanc…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Re-Imagining Outcomes-Based Funding: Using Metrics to Foster Higher Education Equity
State leaders have been revising the formulas that determine how funding is distributed among the colleges in their states, with more than 30 states adopting o…
BREAKOUT SESSION: Building an Omni Channel Advocacy Strategy
In this session, participants will understand how to build an omni channel advocacy campaign to create an echo chamber of information and action surrounding ca…
BREAKOUT SESSION: A Natural Fit: After-school Staff of Color in Teacher Pipelines
We will host a workshop in collaboration with ExpandED Schools to share findings from a recent report on how to support afterschool workers to become teachers.…
PLENARY: Welcome: It Takes a Village – Working with Communities to Re-Engage Students
Welcome to the The Education Trust's April 2021 Equity Matters Bootcamp, featuring performance from The LB Landry Black Box Ensemble and members of The Marchin…
What the American Rescue Plan Means for Education & Equity
The American Rescue Plan Act includes unprecedented resources to bolster education funding and safeguards to prevent states from redirecting public investment …
School Funding Policy in Challenging Times: Tools for Advocates & Policymakers
As states and school districts across the country face significant financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to ensure decisionmakers and advo…
