Built to Connect: Designing School for the AI Era

The 2026 Future-Focused Learning Summit isn’t a conference about AI. It’s a conference about what school needs to be and how AI changes the equation. AI is both the reason these human outcomes matter more than ever and the tool that can help us deliver on them.

The Future-Focused Learning Summit brings together classroom teachers, coaches, administrators, higher ed faculty, and community partners for a single day built around four outcomes that matter: being known, doing real work, growing through others, and navigating uncertainty. Whether you teach kindergarten or lead a district, you’ll work from the same framework as everyone else in the room.

Sessions are led by practitioners who have done the work. Expect honest conversations about what’s working, what isn’t, and what comes next. Expect to leave with something you can try the following week.

Six learning tracks run throughout the day:

1. Being Known

2. Real Work That Matters

3. Becoming More Together

4. Navigating Uncertainty

5. New Pedagogies

6. Leadership & Operations

The arts have a home here. The four pillars describe what arts educators have practiced for generations. If you’re an arts educator or someone who brings the arts into your practice, you belong at this summit.