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See you at CISC 2025 Leadership Symposium Feb 19-21

Camp Elevate: Personalized Professional Learning

A "Choose Your Own Adventure" Workshop Experience

You name the place!
Your School or District
May 8—Oct 1, 2025

Camp Elevate offers a personalized, “choose your own adventure” professional learning experience—available on-site or virtually. Whether you’re focused on assessment, equity, multilingual learner success, or rethinking grading and instruction through a competency-based lens, each camp is built around your team’s goals and learners’ needs. Choose the sessions that matter most. Co-design your experience to ensure this work makes a real, lasting. Leave with a practical action plan—and the inspiration to lead change.

Reignite Your Practice, Reimagine What’s Possible

Explore the offerings below to craft the camp experience that will move your practice forward.

Teaching for Multilingual Learner Success

This summer, empower your team to co-create language-rich classrooms where multilingual learners thrive. Explore identity-affirming practices, translanguaging, formative assessment, goal-setting aligned to WIDA/state standards, and innovative tools like AI to support equity. Teams can also co-design sessions tailored to their site goals. You and your colleagues will leave with ready-to-use tools, language scaffolds, and an action plan for success.

Click the image or link to download a Teaching for Multilingual Learner Success flyer with a complete list of offerings.

Impact Teams/PLCs

Build high-functioning, learner-centered PLCs and strengthen collaborative inquiry through the Impact Team models. Educators develop facilitation skills, explore goal setting and metacognition, and build systems for collective efficacy. Leave with tools and protocols that transform your team’s impact on student learning.

Click the image or link to download the Impact Teams/PLCs flyer with a complete list of offerings.

Assessment for Learning

This personalized summer professional learning experience helps educators transform assessment into a powerful tool for voice, justice, and student agency. We support teams in crafting formative assessment systems that elevate feedback, metacognition, and learning acceleration. Participants choose their focus across 2 to 3 days—from foundational practices and culturally responsive feedback to goal setting, success criteria, and leveraging AI to enhance assessment for learning. Each team leaves with planning guides, student-facing rubrics, and a tailored action plan for sustainable impact.

Click the image or link to download the Assessment for Learning flyer with a complete list of offerings.

MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) Implementation

Design equitable support systems that respond to the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of all students. This camp blends MTSS best practices with UDL, student goal setting, and progress monitoring to drive learner success across tiers. Together we will strengthen your school or district’s program with human-centered design, early intervention, and data driven practices.

Click the image or link to download the MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) Implementation flyer with a complete list of offerings.

Literacy and Justice for All

Empower critical thinkers and assessment-capable learners through a literacy experience grounded in equity and voice. Explore critical literacy, writing as advocacy, and the science of reading among other topics—all while co-designing a justice-centered action plan. Ideal for K–12 literacy teams seeking transformative results.

Click the image or link to download the Literacy and Justice for All flyer with a complete list of offerings.

Competency-Based Learning

Redesign learning so every student can demonstrate mastery, receive feedback, and progress at their own pace. Sessions include mastery assessment, learning progressions, and project-based learning. Leave with a learner-centered roadmap and practical templates for implementation that ensure a lasting impact.

Click the image or link to download the Competency-Based Learning flyer with a complete list of offerings.

Competency-Based Grading

Reimagine grading for clarity and equity. Teams explore the ‘Big Five’ principles of Competency-Based Grading, design competency-aligned rubrics, and rethink report cards. All participants leave with planning tools, feedback templates, and implementation strategies aligned to a culture of learning.

Click the image or link to download the Competency-Based Grading flyer with a complete list of offerings.

 

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