The CTA Instruction and Professional Development (IPD) department is looking for presenters for our IPD Strand at the 2025 CTA Summer Institute. The theme of the IPD Strand will be “Creating Safe and Supportive Classrooms for Students and Educators II,” revisiting and expanding on the theme of our popular 2024 IPD Strand. APPLICATIONS DUE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025: bit.ly/IPDpresenter25
The 2025 CTA Summer Institute will run from Wednesday, July 16 to Sunday, July 20, 2025, at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we will start the day with keynote speakers and panels focusing on a different aspect of safe and supportive classrooms, followed by elective sessions each day in the afternoon. We are looking for member-led elective sessions that will complement each day’s keynote focus. We typically draw on classroom teachers as presenters for our elective sessions because of their practical classroom experience, but this year’s theme offers an opportunity for members who work as counselors, psychologists, behaviorists, social workers, nurses, and educators working with student and teacher support programs to showcase their best practices as well. Sample ideas for possible afternoon electives are included below. Feel free to develop one of the ideas provided or propose an idea of your own.
- Building deep relationships with students and families
- Classroom management strategies
- At-risk/at-promise practices in classrooms and schools
- Alternatives to punitive and exclusionary discipline
- Restorative Justice/PBS/MTSS programs that support students BEFORE they get to the point of discipline/suspension/expulsion
- Strategies to support and promote attendance
- Chapters organizing around equity and justice in discipline & safety
- Self-regulation strategies for students and adults
- Behavior interventions consistent with child/adolescent/teen neurology/biology
- Trauma-informed practices in classrooms and schools
- Strategies that support social and emotional learning and well-being
- Classroom systems and structures that support all students
- Instructional models that support all students (including UDL)
- Campus-wide systems and structures that support students
- Continuation schools as alternative supportive settings
- Systems and structures that support adults
- Chapters organizing around academic issues and safety/support issues
- Community schools as a vehicle for safe and supportive schools/classrooms
Elective sessions will be 90 minutes each, although we’re not looking for 90 minutes of lecture; instead, a mix of content, discussion and time for participants to engage with the content would be ideal. Please keep in mind that we need to offer elective options that will appeal to elementary and secondary teachers (as well as, ideally, preschool and community college teachers), and general education teachers, special education teachers, and other student support professionals.
For selected elective session presenters, the IPD department will pay for 2025 CTA Summer Institute registration for the IPD Strand (full conference), including meals and a single occupancy room in the Westin Bonaventure hotel, and travel (car mileage or an economical flight + taxi/shuttle/Uber/Lyft to and from the airport).
If you are interested in presenting an elective session as part of the IPD Strand at the 2025 CTA Summer Institute, please complete and submit the following interest form by Monday, March 24, 2025, including:
- Presenters’ names, home email addresses, and current assignments
- Proposed session title
- What grade levels and settings your session would be appropriate for
- Description of the proposed session
- Any limitations on your availability July 16-20, 2025
Link to form: https://bit.ly/IPDpresenter25
The IPD team will review all interest forms submitted by the deadline and select elective sessions reflecting a range of topics and audiences. Presenters will be notified in April. If you have any questions, please contact Brian Guerrero (bguerrero@cta.org) in the CTA IPD department.
