APS Rising Educator Summit 2026

Learn how to transform your classroom with efficient data collection. These sessions highlight using tools like Google Forms to streamline assessment and drive informed instructional decisions. Join us on the Sky Bridge for a dynamic and interactive series of poster sessions designed to spark innovation and provide practical solutions for today’s educators. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to engage directly with experts, explore visual data, and take away actionable strategies in a concise, high-impact format.

Google Forms for Data Collection: Want to streamline data collection for your student's behaviors, BIP, academic achievement, or anything else, and be provided with immediate visuals including graphs, charts, and summaries of the results? Need to collaborate across multiple classrooms in a quick and easy way without having to spend time organizing the results in order to analyze your data? Learn to use Google Forms for a variety of data collection in your classroom. Meghan Hendricks

District Utility Data Revealed!: Did you know APS has a dashboard that allows you to see utility usage data in real time and separated by school? Cufflink is this dashboard and can provide you and your students real-world, relevant data to explore and analyze. Curious what your school's electric or water usage is? Check! Curious about solar panel output? Check! Learn with members of the Sustaining the Future and Cufflink teams how to access and apply these data with your students. Abel Abeita, Erika Edgerly

Data Driven Decision-Marking using Progress Learning or CB Assessments: This a presentation on how we can utilize the Progress Learning Interim Assessments aligning with the PSAT/NMSQT and SAT. Maria Santos