Professional learning Events
Upcoming Events from the Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning
2026 Fall Webinar
- Explore evidence-informed strategies that elevate teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
- Discover how an understanding of neuroplasticity can transform your pedagogy.
- Gain a new lens to rethink your instructional design.
- Walk away with immediate strategies, resources and tools to implement in your classrooms.
2027 Winter Webinar Series
Our 2027 Winter Webinar Series: Belonging, the Brain, and Fearless Learning, brings together insights from the Science of Teaching and Learning with practical classroom strategies you can use immediately. Across three engaging evening sessions, you’ll discover why belonging isn’t just a feel-good concept, it’s an evidence-informed driver of cognitive development and academic success. We’ll explore how a student’s environment influences motivation and identity formation, and why your role as an educator matters more than ever in creating optimal learning conditions. Each attendee receives a certificate for 4 hours of professional learning and development.
Previous Events
SCIENCE OF TEACHING AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | JULY 13-16, 2026
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2026 Academy. We’re grateful for the energy, insight, and commitment our community brings to this work. Explore upcoming professional learning events designed to help educators and school leaders activate research into practice.
The Colorado Science of Learning Institute | June 4-5, 2026
The Colorado Science of Learning Institute is an accredited professional learning and development experience hosted by the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at the Kent Denver School in Colorado. This Institute is an opportunity to begin or elevate your knowledge and activation of the most promising research, strategies, principles, and mindsets in the Science of Learning. Thank you to all those who made this event possible. Watch this space for more information on upcoming events. Please email info@thecttl.org with any questions.
Who’s Doing the Thinking? A Science of Learning Guide to AI in Education
April 23, 2026 | 7-8 p.m. EDT
AI can generate polished work fast but actual learning is slow, effortful, and built through thinking. This webinar shifts the conversation about AI in schools away from cheating and plagiarism and toward the real issue: how learning actually happens. Grounded in the Science of Learning, we’ll explore:
- How Learning Actually Works
- Where AI Helps, Where it Harms
- What Schools Must Do Now
- Education’s “Golden Question”
2026 WINTER WEBINAR SERIES | JANUARY 29, FEBRUARY 5, AND FEBRUARY 12, 2026
Our 2026 Winter Webinar Series brings together insights from the Science of Teaching and Learning with practical classroom strategies you can use immediately. Across three engaging evening sessions, you’ll discover why belonging isn’t just a feel-good concept—it’s an evidence-informed driver of cognitive development and academic success. We’ll explore how a student’s environment influences motivation and identity formation, and why your role as an educator matters more than ever in creating optimal learning conditions. Each attendee receives a certificate for 4 hours of professional learning and development.
When Are the Teacher and Student Brains Ready for AI?
Join the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning team, along with a panel that includes Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa and Maya Bialik, as they explore how the Science of Teaching and Learning can guide the responsible, developmental, and effective integration of AI into classrooms. Discover how educators can design instruction and make pedagogical choices that leverage AI to support—not replace—the human brain and thinking hard. Participants will leave with practical, research-informed strategies and a curated collection of tools to elevate teaching, streamline workflow, and support student learning (with and without AI tools).
USA FESTIVAL OF EDUCATION | OCTOBER 4, 2025
The third installment of one of the USA’s most exciting and inspiring education events will take place in October 2025. Founded by Wellington College in 2010, the Festival of Education gathers educators from across the USA and beyond for a day of invaluable continuing professional development, discussions, and networking.