KINLCon 2025
June 24 & 25, 2025
$99 now through May 14!
May 15 – price increases to $149!
Join Keep Indiana Learning (KINL) for our summer event – CIESC Presents KINLCon: Link, Lead, Learn! This premier event brings together educators from Indiana and beyond to shape the future of teaching and learning. Designed for all levels and content areas, KINLCon features inspiring keynotes and collaborative sessions showcasing the extraordinary work happening in Indiana schools and classrooms.
Do you know an educator who has built strong community partnerships, made a significant impact in their school community, or has implemented a creative initiative? Nominate them for one of our inaugural KINLCon awards!
Who should attend?
With sessions tailored to all school community members—including teachers, coaches, student services professionals, paraprofessionals, administrators, families, and community partners—KINLCon provides a space to share ideas, strategies, and practices. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your expertise, connect across roles, and lead meaningful change in education!
Bring a team of 5 or more educators and we’ll provide you with a dedicated room to strategize and collaborate. As a bonus, you have the option to connect with one of our skilled coaches, ready to help you take your newfound knowledge and put it into powerful practice.
SAVE THE DATE!
What to Expect
Participants will gain actionable strategies to create supportive learning environments where everyone thrives. Explore cutting-edge practices, emerging trends, and proven tools that enhance instruction and drive success. KINLCon emphasizes collaboration (Link), leadership (Lead), and professional growth (Learn), offering a dynamic experience to ignite creativity, strengthen leadership, and embrace limitless possibilities.
Highlighted Speakers
- Aaron Munson
- Erik Francis
- Jennifer Jenson
- Jennifer Lemp
- Katie Powell
- Kristen Acosta
- Melissa Gill
- Ryan Flessner
- Shawnta Barnes
- Stevie Frank
- YaySTEM
Keynote Speakers
Tom Hakim
Tom Hakim is the Principal of Northview Middle School in MSD of Washington Township in Indianapolis. With his belief in the power of positive school culture and high expectations, he has led both elementary and secondary schools in Indiana to significant academic gains. An IASP Principal of the Year, his leadership inspirations range from Stephen Covey to Duke’s Kara Lawson to Dr. Anthony Muhammad to Ted Lasso. He is excited and humbled to share his uplifting message of leadership, collaboration, and growth with education colleagues as a part of the inaugural KINLCON!
Colin Seale
Colin Seale was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where struggles in his upbringing gave birth to his passion for educational equity. Tracked early into gifted and talented programs, Colin was afforded opportunities his neighborhood peers were not. Using lessons from his experience as a math teacher, later as an attorney, and now as a keynote speaker, contributor to Forbes, The 74, Edutopia and Education Post and author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students (Prufrock Press, 2020) and Tangible Equity: A Guide for Leveraging Student Identity, Culture, and Power to Unlock Excellence In and Beyond the Classroom (Routledge, May 2022), Colin founded thinkLaw (www.thinklaw.us), a multi-award-winning organization to help educators leverage inquiry-based instructional strategies to close the critical thinking gap and ensure they teach and reach all students, regardless of race, zip code or what side of the poverty line they are born into.
Link
This strand offers opportunities to focus on collaboration among all members of the school community. These sessions will provide participants the chance to learn from each other while sharing insights and strategies that foster meaningful relationships in classrooms, schools, and districts. Presenters will emphasize linking ideas, practices, and people across school environments that promote a supportive teaching and learning experience. KINLCon offers sessions where participants can foster growth in any of these areas.
Lead
This strand offers opportunities where educators will be inspired and equipped to take on leadership roles within their school community. Through sessions focusing on innovative strategies, best practices, and tools for fostering effective teaching and learning, participants will learn how to lead efforts which enhance educational outcomes for all. Presenters will emphasize leadership happening at the classroom, school, district, and community levels. KINLCon offers sessions where participants can foster growth in any of these areas.
Learn
This strand offers opportunities to deepen your expertise in teaching and learning. These sessions will provide participants the opportunity to learn about effective classroom teaching practices, curriculum development, assessments, and strategies that support all learners. Presenters will emphasize actionable ideas and resources immediately applicable in classrooms and school communities. KINLCon offers sessions where participants can foster growth in any of these areas.
BECOME A
SPONSOR OR EXHIBITOR!
Join us June 24-25, 2025, for a premier event that brings together educators from Indiana and beyond to shape the future of teaching and learning! All Sponsors and Exhibitors can submit a proposal to present a session at the conference.
INTERESTED
IN PRESENTING?
We appreciate your enthusiasm for KINLCon. Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting breakout session proposals. If you have any questions, please email Keep Indiana Learning (KeepIndianaLearning@ciesc.org).
Speakers will be notified by April 15 of their acceptance to present.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
At hand2mind, we believe children learn best by doing. For over 55 years, teachers and administrators at thousands of schools and districts across the country have relied on our high-quality, hands-on materials to expand their core curriculum for math, literacy, and science/STEM.
The Indiana Middle Level Education is a non-profit affiliated with the Association of Middle Level Educators and Schools to Watch, which is facilitated by the Middle Grades Forum to Accelerated School Improvement. Our office is with our affiliate Indiana Association of School Principals. We are the only organization in our state dedicated to promoting, improving, and supporting middle level education.
thinkLaw exists to create a world where critical thinking is no longer a luxury good. We help educators teach critical thinking to all students, not just the highest achieving ones at the most exclusive schools. Rote memorization and spoon-fed learning will not prepare young people for the rapidly changing workforce that awaits them.
This is why thinkLaw increases educational equity by giving all students access to critical thinking. We do this through our award-winning curriculum that uses real-life legal cases in upper grades and fairy tales and nursery rhymes in lower grades as a hook to unleash the critical thinking potential of all students and powerful professional development that helps educators apply rigorous inquiry strategies that help them transform from asking “what” and “how to” to “why” and “what if.
Heinemann offers high-quality math and literacy products.
REGISTER NOW!
$99 now through May 14!
May 15 the price increases to $149!
Noblesville West Middle School
Multiple Hotels and Lodging venues located nearby.
Multiple food and entertainment venues located nearby.
If you are a school or organization that would like to utilize a collaboration room during the conference, please register five or more educators by reaching out to Cara Edwards at cedwards@ciesc.org.
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