Past Events

From Hype to Evidence: The Data on AI and Learning

While many have opinions on AI, this group arrives with insights grounded in data. Education leaders and researchers from ASU, Stanford University and University of North Carolina System will explore the intersection of AI and learner agency through stories grounded in early research and data-driven investigations. By highlighting real-world examples and research findings, the session will invite reflection on both the promises and challenges of AI in fostering more empowered, self-directed, and meaningful learning pathways.

Can Tutoring Save Us? AI, Accountability, and the Learning We Owe Students

Tutoring has long been one of education’s most powerful and most elusive levers for improving student outcomes. Decades of research show that high-quality tutoring can dramatically accelerate learning. And yet, at scale, that promise has repeatedly fallen short. Systems haven’t sustained it. Students haven’t seen the gains we hoped for. And too often, tutoring has remained fragile, episodic, or disconnected from core instruction.Now AI has entered the equation...not as a silver bullet, but as a forcing function. AI can diagnose faster, personalize more precisely, and deliver feedback at scale. But it also makes one reality impossible to ignore: technology can’t fix weak instructional design or unclear accountability. In an AI-enabled world, the question isn’t whether tutoring can work — it’s whether we are finally willing to build it in ways that actually deliver learning.In this session we'll explore whether AI can meaningfully strengthen tutoring, or does it simply expose what was never built to last? What conditions make tutoring durable? And what does accountability look like when the goal isn’t participation…but real gains for students?

AEFP 2026 Annual Conference

Come and see us at The AEFP 2026 Annual Conference on March 19-21, 2026 in Swissotel Chicago, Illinois

Statewide Briefing on Getting Down to Facts III

The Stanford SCALE Initiative and Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) invite you to join us for a virtual statewide education partner briefing on the next phase of the Getting Down to Facts III project. Your leadership and perspective are essential as we work to connect rigorous research with the realities facing California’s students, families, and schools.

This virtual session will bring together community partners, policymakers, researchers, and education leaders on February 4th from 1-2 PM PT to share plans, understand overlap, and collaborate on the statewide work ahead for California schools.

K-12 education: Accountability and performance on the 10th anniversary of ESSA

December 2025 is the 10th anniversary of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), an opportune time to take stock of the state of student achievement in the United States.

How High-Impact Tutoring Can Support Your State’s Literacy and Math Goals

As part of NASBE’s Annual Conference Encore webinar series, join us on December 3, from 3:00–4:00 pm, ET for a conversation on how research-based high-impact tutoring can transform student outcomes.

A Win Win: How Teachers in Training are Supporting High-Quality Tutoring

Schools across the country are implementing high-dosage tutoring programs to accelerate student learning. But many face challenges finding high-quality tutors and sustaining the programs now that federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding has ended. Schools of education are stepping up to fill the need by having their undergraduates tutor students in partner schools—adding a new component to their teacher training programs in the process.

FutureEd is hosting a webinar on the new strategy for expanding the supply of tutors in the nation’s public schools, focusing on how programs in Ohio and Virginia are making the new win-win partnerships work. Moderated by FutureEd’s Associate Director Maureen Tracey-Mooney, the discussion will feature:

• Meredith Fortner, executive director of EduTutorVA
• Susanna Loeb, professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and director of the National Student Support Accelerator
• Dawn Shinew, dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University