Deeper Learning 2026

BREAKFAST MENU
Bagel Bar + Smoked Salmon (Vegan Friendly)
Tomatoes / Red Onions / Cucumbers / Capers / Lemon Wedges
Cream Cheese / Jams / Butter
Assorted Fresh-Baked Mini Pastries (Croissants, Muffins, Scones, Danishes)
Oatmeal Bar (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
Raisins / Cinnamon / Honey, Agave / Brown Sugar / Chocolate Chips / Milks, Non-Dairy Milks
Fresh Cut Fruit

MARKETPLACE
Check out the DL Marketplace, where you can purchase Deeper Learning merch from our student-run print shop, or purchase books by some of the Deeper Learning and National Summit on Improvement in Education presenters! In addition to a "self-serve" bookstore, Myers Education Press, the leading publisher of Continuous Improvement books, digital content, and support products for a variety of improvement communities, will also be at the Marketplace!

To find your Community Advisory location, check Sched for the classroom location for your deep dive session. That is where you will meet for the four Community Advisory sessions (and your deep dive)!

This session will be focused on final set up and preparation for the Exhibition of Learning which will take place the morning of April 1st. During this time you will be grouped with participants from different Deep Dives, and you will have a chance to share your Deep Dive reflection with others. This reflection will continue to build relationships and process experiences with new Deeper Learning friends from around the world.

In this Exhibition of Learning, participants will have an opportunity to reflect in small groups on their learning and share it with others. Participants will be grouped with Deeper Learners from different Deep Dives. In addition to individuals presenting, they will also have an opportunity to be an audience member to learn from other deep divers. This will take place in the building where the Deep Dives were located.

Marvel and DC comics, East Coast and West Coast hip hop, Marmite and vegemite yeast extracts… All historic rivalries between titans who are, in truth, united by so much more than what divides them. 

Now you can add the National Summit on Improvement in Education and the Deeper Learning Conference to that list. Two iconic education conferences, both hosted by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education at the same time, both culminating in a closing keynote that will bring BOTH CONFERENCES TOGETHER.

Who, you ask, could command such an audience?

It could only be Ron Berger. 

Ron taught at Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, for 28 years, from 1975 to 2003. Shutesbury has a population of fewer than 2000 people, which means that Ron has taught a significant portion of them. At that school, he developed an approach to learning in which students tackled serious, intellectually knotty challenges together and  created beautiful, professional-quality work over the course of multiple drafts. To give just one example, his elementary-school students conducted Shutesbury’s first-ever comprehensive water quality study. 

This work inspired Ron to write An Ethic of Excellence, a 156-page book that has not only inspired countless educators, it has inspired countless people to become teachers. It’s also one of the few education books that routinely reduces readers to tears (in a good way). 

Since then, as Chief Academic Officer of EL Education, Ron co-authored  A Culture of Quality, Leaders of Their Own Learning, Transformational Literacy, Management in the Active Classroom, Learning that Lasts, and We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture. He was a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he did his graduate work. He founded and directs the website Models of Excellence: The Center for High-Quality Student Work, which holds the world’s largest collection of beautiful K-12 student work. 

Ron is now EL Education’s Senior Advisor on Teaching and Learning. In his closing keynote, he’ll be talking about how Deeper Learning and Continuous Improvement inspire remarkable student work and thinking around the world.