Education is at a turning point. As the world changes at lightning speed, our students need a school experience that prepares them for the opportunities of tomorrow.

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Join the Modern Learning Network in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, December 2nd at 9AM for an energizing, in-person experience! 

In just two powerful hours, we’ll roll up our sleeves together to imagine what schools could look like in the next 3–5 years. Through interactive visioning and hands-on collaboration, we’ll explore bold new possibilities for teaching and learning — all grounded in research-based frameworks designed to prepare every student for a rapidly changing world.

🗓️ Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
⏰ 9 AM - 11 AM
📌 School District 49

Creekside Success Center

3850 Pony Tracks Drive

Colorado Springs, CO  80922

Showcase: Falcon Zone in District 49 will share about their innovative journey to modernize and personalize teaching and learning at scale.  Hear from district leaders and learn about their triumphs and challenges to modernizing teaching and learning and driving change at scale with your community.

  • Creating an Instructional Model that really works

  • Developing a living Portrait of a Graduate

  • Driving change to create a competency based learning model

  • Aligning systems to support the transformation of modern classrooms

Connect with regional leaders and share priorities for building schools that truly equip students for an ever-changing world.
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Take Aways

  1. Copies of Two Books: The New Agenda and the Shape of Change 

  2. District Convergence Framework: Leadership and Strategy for Today’s Educator

  3. Learning Framework: Personalized Learning Student Outcomes Framework

  4. Convergence District Assessment: Where are you in your design at scale?

Why Attend?

  1. Empower Student and Teacher Agency for the Future of learning  

  2. Connect with Peers – Hear from District 49, Falcon Zone School District about their journey to modernize learning and instruction

  3. Build Your Network – Connect with leaders across the region who are rethinking education

  4. Envision an Instructional Model for the Modern Learner

  5. Re-ignite your Portrait of a Graduate to align with Innovation and AI 

  6. Define a Leadership and Strategy Roadmap for systems change and organizational design

Questions? Reach out to Sue Holmes at sue@leapinnovations.org

Workshop Agenda

  • 30 min: Welcome with Breakfast and Introductions

  • 30 min Group development of what modern learning could be

    • Get to know each other

  • 30 min Spotlight: Jill Gildea, Colorado Early Colleges

  • 30 min Turning vision into reality

    • Create a RoadMap based on where your district is

    • Book + Frameworks

  • 30 min Creating the path forward

    • Creating a draft instructional model

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