2023 SIMposium

2 years StrateWorks member benefits are included as part of your conference payment, making you active until 2025!

Regular Registration (Jan. 1 - June 15, 2023): $425
Late Registration (June 15 - July 11, 2023): $450

1. Register online

• Online Registration Form
• Sample letter to request approval to attend the conference

2. Payment options 

• Download form to pay by check or PO
• Visit our online store to pay by credit card.  The conference is listed in the Professional Learning Tab.
• Call 785-864-4780 with your credit card information between 9 AM and 4 PM CST.

Refund Policy: 
If you find you are not able to attend the conference notify KUCRL by June 27 for a refund of your registration minus a $25 cancellation fee.  

For questions regarding registration, please contact simpd@ku.edu, 785-864-0626. For questions regarding payment, contact orderkucrl@ku.edu, 785-864-4780.

Conference Hotel:

Springhill Suites by Marriott - Lawrence Downtown
One Riverfront Plaza,
Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 66044
Toll Free:+1-785-841-2700

Our room block at the Springhill Suites is now full. 

 Eldridge Hotel:(3 blocks away)

Group Rate: $125
Group Name: 45th Annual SIMposium 
To book, please call the hotel Friday 8:30 - 6pm, Saturday 10am -5pm or Sunday 10am - 3pm CENTRAL TIME
785 749 5011
Valet parking $15/vehicle/night

Towneplace Suites by Marriott - Downtown Lawrence (3 blocks away)
900 New Hampshire St.. 

special group rate: $125 per night (Usual rate $180!!)

Click here to Book your group rate for SIMposium

Block ends on JUNE 10!

Conference Hotel:

Springhill Suites by Marriott - Lawrence Downtown
One Riverfront Plaza,
Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 66044
Toll Free:+1-785-841-2700

Group rate SOLD OUT

Other Hotels Within Walking Distance:

The Eldridge Hotel (3 blocks away)
701 Massachussets St.

Group Rate: $125/night
Group Name: 45th Annual SIMposium 
To book, please call the hotel Friday 8:30 - 6pm, Saturday 10am -5pm or Sunday 10am - 3pm CENTRAL TIME
(785)749-5011
Valet parking $15/vehicle/night

Towneplace Suites by Marriott - Downtown Lawrence (4 blocks away)
900 New Hampshire St.. 

Group Rate: $125/night
Click here to Book your group rate for SIMposium - Block ends on JUNE 10!

Downtown Lawrence:

There's lots to do in downtown Lawrence and it's all walkable from the conference hotel.  Please check out the Explore Lawrence website or download the Downtown Lawrence app for more information.

Favorite Restaurants List (.doc)

We're very excited to announce that our Keynote Speaker this year will be Cynthia Coburn!

Coburn is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Coburn studies the relationship between instructional policy and teachers’ classroom practices in urban schools, the dynamics of school district policy making, and the relationship between research and practice for school improvement.

She has won numerous awards for her scholarship, including the American Educational Research Association Early Career Award (2011), election as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2015), an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from CU Louvain in Belgium (2019), election to the National Academy of Education (2020), and Northwestern University’s Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship (2020). She is a member of the California Collaborative for District Reform, the DREME network investigating coherence of early mathematics instruction, the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering NASEM) Standing Committee on Scientific Communication, and the NASEM Committee on the Future of Educational Research. We're so looking forward to continuing our conversation with Dr. Coburn and to learning about her recent research, since she last keynoted for us in 2014.

Conference Sessions:

Tuesday, July 11

• 1:00-2:00 pm - Keynote Session: Spreading and Sustaining Equitable Innovations
  • One of the biggest challenges in achieving scale for innovations is sustainability. This may be especially true for innovations that require teachers to learn new things and the school system to operate in different ways to support all learners. In this talk, following a discussion of the nature of sustainability at scale, I will discuss challenges faced in sustaining innovations that target students who have not historically been well served by schools. I will then discuss different strategies for supporting and sustaining the work.
• 2:15-3:30 pm - Keynote Follow-up Interactive Session
  • more details coming soon

Draft Schedule

• Cynthia Coburn, Keynote Speaker, Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University
• Cathleen Beachboard, Author and English Teacher, Fauquier County, VA
• Gwen Berry, Associate Professor, Center for Instructional and Behavioral Research in Schools, University of Louisville, KY
• Irma Brasseur-Hock, Academic Program Associate, Assistant Research Professor, Univ. of Kansas, Dept. of Special Education
• Jan Bulgren, Research Professor, Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
• Paula Crawford, President - RedDoc Consulting, Inc., former Project Director NC State Personnel Development Grant
• Janice Creneti, Assistant Project Manager, Florida State Personnel Development Grant
• Don Deshler, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
• Tonya Eberhart, Senior Research Assistant, KUCRL, Lawrence, KS
• Joseph B. Fisher, Professor, Dept. of Teaching and Learning, Grand Valley State University. MI
• Margaret Flores, Professor of Special Education, Rehabilitation and Counseling, Auburn University and President-Elect for the Council of Learning Disabilities
• Mike Hock, Director, Senior Scientist, Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
• Tracy Hunt, Secondary ELA/Media Instructional Facilitator, Mid-Del School District, Midwest City, OK
• Bradley Kaffar, Department Chair, Special Education, St. Cloud State University, MN
• Jim Knight, Founder and Senior Partner of the Instructional Coaching Group
• Pam Leitzell, SIM Professional Development Leader and Educational Consultant, Learning Curve Consultants, Florence, AL
• B. Keith  Lenz, Associate Professor, University of Central Arkansas
• Whitney Miller, Coordinator T/TAC@ Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA
• Darren Minarik, Associate Professor, Special Education and Secondary Social Studies, Radford University and Co-Director of the Inclusive Practices Center at Radford University
• Belinda Mitchell, Associate Professor of Special Education, Program Coordinator of Masters of Art in Curriculum and Instruction, Shepherd University
• Karen Mitchell, Director of Secondary Education, Stanly County Schools, Albemarle, NC
• Maggie Mosher, Assistant Research Professor, KUAAI
• Suzanne Myers, Assistant Research Professor, Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
• Amber Rowland, Associate Research Professor, KUCRL
• Jean Schumaker, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
• Gloria Sherman, Xtreme ReadingTeacher / Reading Interventionist, Shelby, NC
• Sean Smith, Professor of Special Education, University of Kansas
• Rosemary Tralli, SIM Professional Development Leader & Educational Consultant, Connecticut
• Jocelyn Washburn, Director of Professional Development and Assistant Research Professor, Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
• Suzanne Woods-Groves, Associate Professor of Special Education, Dept. of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and Counseling, College of Education, Auburn University

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