Making Schools Work Conference

Join us in Nashville, Tennessee, July 14-17, 2026, for an unforgettable education conference and share your strategies, struggles and successes during four days of learning, collaborating and networking. We offer hundreds of sessions on topics from CTE, math and literacy to addressing the effects of poverty and trauma and ensuring equitable access to quality instruction. Take home actionable strategies to advance your K-12 school improvement efforts and raise student achievement. SREB's Making Schools Work school improvement process employs a distributed leadership approach to involve the whole school in identifying problems of practice that impact student engagement and achievement and developing plans to solve them. With designs for elementary grades, middle grades, high schools and technology centers, Making Schools Work empowers school teams to create improvement plans that address five focus areas: motivating students through engaging instruction; aligning curricula with state readiness standards; ensuring that students can explore careers and complete career pathways that align with their interests and aptitudes; providing student supports that promote readiness; creating and supporting cultures of continuous improvement.