Celebrating 40 Years of Knowledge-Building
🗒 June 24-25, 2027
📍 JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa, Scottsdale AZ
Book your discounted hotel rate here.
Join educators, researchers, and partners as we celebrate 40 years of Core Knowledge, reflecting on the ideas, practices, and leadership that have expanded access to knowledge-rich education and opened opportunities for students everywhere.
Stay tuned for session announcements.
Discover the Core Knowledge Conference
Why Attend?
Learn: Explore research, evidence, and ideas that shape knowledge-rich education.
Apply: Discover practical strategies, tools, and classroom-ready approaches you can implement immediately.
Connect: Build relationships with educators, leaders, researchers, and partners who share a commitment to educational excellence and opportunity.
Lead: Strengthen your ability to support implementation, develop others, and sustain impactful change.
Conference Areas of Focus
The 2027 Core Knowledge Conference is organized around four areas of focus that reflect the progression from why, to practice, to support, to scale.
→ Why Knowledge Matters
Explore the research, evidence, and ideas that inform knowledge-rich education.
→ Knowledge-Rich Instruction
Discover instructional practices that build knowledge, deepen understanding, and drive student learning.
→ Instructional Coaching & Adult Learning
Learn strategies for coaching, professional learning, and building instructional expertise.
→ School & Systems Leadership
Explore the leadership and systems that support lasting improvement across schools and organizations.
Be Part of Something Bigger
The Core Knowledge Conference is more than a professional learning event. It is a global gathering of educators, leaders, researchers, and advocates who share a belief that knowledge matters. Together, participants explore ideas, strengthen practice, build community, and contribute to a growing national and international movement committed to educational excellence and opportunity for all students. Join us as we reflect on four decades of advancing knowledge-rich education while looking ahead to the future of the movement.
Early Bird Registration · Oct 14, 2026 – Jan 7, 2027 · $650
Regular Registration · Jan 8, 2027 – Mar 10, 2027 · $700
Late Registration · Mar 11, 2027 – May 7, 2027 · $750
Share Your Practice. Support Your Peers.
Some of the most valuable learning happens when educators share implementation experiences, instructional practices, and lessons learned with one another.
We invite teachers, coaches, school leaders, researchers, and partners to share practical strategies, evidence-informed approaches, and lessons learned that help strengthen classrooms, schools, and systems.
Support the Conference. Expand Access.
Every year, educators seek opportunities to deepen their practice, strengthen implementation, and connect with others committed to educational excellence and opportunity. Sponsorship support helps make those opportunities accessible to more teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders.
By sponsoring the Core Knowledge Conference, you are helping reduce financial barriers to participation and ensuring that educators from diverse schools, communities, and contexts can engage in meaningful professional learning and contribute to a growing knowledge-building movement.
Together, we can expand access to the ideas, research, and practices that help students thrive.
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s the flagship biannual gathering hosted by the Core Knowledge Foundation, bringing together educators, school and system leaders, researchers, and partners to explore research, practice, and leadership that strengthen knowledge-rich education.
The 2027 Core Knowledge Conference takes place June 24-25, 2027, at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The 2027 event marks the Core Knowledge Foundation’s 40th anniversary, celebrating four decades of advancing knowledge-rich education while looking ahead to the future of the movement.
Sessions are organized around four areas of focus, Why Knowledge Matters, Knowledge-Rich Instruction, Instructional Coaching & Adult Learning, and School & Systems Leadership, covering everything from the research behind knowledge-building to classroom practice to systems-level leadership.
Classroom teachers, instructional coaches, school and district leaders, curriculum leaders, researchers, and education partners from across the United States, with a small and steadily growing international presence.
Yes. While most attendees come from U.S. schools, the conference welcomes international educators and leaders as part of a growing global community committed to knowledge-rich education.
Updates on the conference, registration, and Call for Proposals are shared through the Core Knowledge Foundation’s website. You can also sign up for the free Core Knowledge newsletter to receive updates about the conference and the Foundation at large.
It’s built specifically around the knowledge-rich education movement, connecting the research behind knowledge-building to real classroom practice, coaching, and systems-level leadership, rather than covering education broadly.
Yes. The conference invites teachers, coaches, school leaders, researchers, and partners to submit session proposals sharing practical strategies and implementation experience through its Call for Proposals process.
The 2027 conference is designed as an in-person gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona. You can book your accommodation for the conference at a special discounted rate here.
Have more questions?
Contact us at conference@coreknowledge.org