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The Annual Professional Development Conference
Each winter, the Consortium and the Center for Inquiry host a professional development conference. The conference usually begins with a keynote speaker, and then conference participants break out into workshops that are designed and led by Consortium teachers and staff.
Conference Highlights
2024 Conference - Celebrating the Creativity of Teachers
Our 2024 Conference honored the creativity of Consortium teachers. In this video of our live conference event, several teachers (some of whom are also alum of Consortium schools) reflect on creativity as an essential tenet, commitment, and joy of Consortium education.
25th Anniversary Celebration & Conference (2023)
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Michelle Fine, and Consortium teachers Marie Leblanc and Elisaul Cruz
After an introduction by Ann Cook, Executive Director of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, delivers a keynote address at the Consortium's 25th Anniversary Conference (January 2023).
After delivering her keynote address at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the New York Performance Standards Consortium (January 2023), Professor Michelle Fine speaks with Consortium teachers Marie Leblanc and Elisaul Cruz.
Watch our 25th Anniversary Celebration video featuring scenes from the 2023 conference.
As a part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Consortium, we created this video “It's Where I Belong.” In the video, current Consortium staff who themselves attended Consortium schools reflect on what drew them back.
2022 Conference – Unstandardized: Nurturing Joy In Learning
Keynote Speakers: Congressman Jamaal Bowman, Dr. Denisha Jones
Watch Denisha Jones, director of the Sarah Lawrence College Art of Teaching graduate program, and longtime educational advocate, and Congressman Jamaal Bowman, deliver the keynote addresses on the power of unstandardized curriculum and assessment to cultivate equitable and joyous learning communities.
Sampling of Workshop Titles from 2022
Joyfully Teaching While Black
New York State of Mind: Exploring the History of our Neighborhoods
Rethinking America’s Past: Debating Competing Historical Narratives, including Howard Zinn’s
ReThinking In-Person Math Instruction: Building a “Thinking” Classroom
Student-Designed Ethnic Studies Course Creation Project
Teaching Mathematics Using a Problem Solving Approach
Student-Designed Ethnic Studies Course Creation Project
Circle Keeper Who? A Youth Led Restorative Justice Program
Bringing Archaeology into the Social Studies Classroom
Building Self-directed Learners in a World Language Classroom
Creating Social Work Collaborative Peer Supervision Groups
Double Exposure: Exploring Identity through Poetry and Art
Financial Literacy is Equity
Focusing on Instructional Leadership
Fractionstein (Fractionphobia)
Freedom & Writing: Teaching Creative Writing & Writing
Creatively
2021 Conference – Perspectives on the Role of Consortium Educators in Preserving and Promoting Democracy
Given the many crises we face — COVID-19, Systemic Racism, Climate Change and more — the 2021 Consortium Conference was organized around the following questions:
What is the role of public education in a democratic society? What is our role as Consortium educators?
How do inquiry and performance-based assessments support students as learners and as citizens?
Watch key note panelists, Takiema Bunche-Smith (Moderator), Taina Camacho, Jesse Hagopian, and Stan Karpreflect on the importance of performance assessment and inquiry-based education in preserving and promoting democratic ideals in a time of immense polarization.