APS Rising Educator Summit 2026

Join us to transform how your school learns, collaborates, and celebrates together. Join us in La Sala (lower West Side) 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.

Math Made Beautiful: Reimagining Fluency, Confidence, and Engagement: In this interactive workshop, attendees will rotate through three hands-on stations that model joyful, high-impact math routines for real classrooms. Participants will explore daily warm-ups that build number sense and fact fluency, structures that promote student ownership through creative problem-solving, and activities that support whole-class engagement and mathematical discourse through play. Aaron Johnston, Patrick Iverson

Math in Every Language: Building Understanding Through Visual Thinking: In many bilingual classrooms, students are learning mathematics and language at the same time. This session shares how one school, Christine Duncan Heritage Academy, strengthened engagement and understanding by centering visual thinking through Tile Farm.
Using a simple, consistent daily routine, students began to participate more fully, take risks, and communicate their ideas with confidence. Visual, low-floor, high-ceiling tasks allowed all learners to access mathematics immediately, while supporting the development of academic language over time.
Participants will experience the routine as learners, hear classroom stories from CDHA, and explore practical ways to build inclusive, discussion-rich math environments where all students can think and communicate in math, in any language. Elia Maria Romero, Louis Romero

Esports (Gaming in the Classroom): How to show and grow your ESPORTS ELECTIVE and after hours program. Learn what ESPORTS is all about at DNHS. Websites, 3D printing, Youtube Videos, Graphic Design. Learn what ESPORTS at you school and how to grow your program. Learn about funding opportunities. Marta Anderson