GO WILD: Where Purpose Meets Possibility

Ever wondered what it would look like and feel like to truly GO WILD?

 

As educators, we are called to do what’s right: follow standards, honor curriculum, meet compliance, and lead with kindness and compassion as we serve each student. Yet in a world that keeps piling on expectations, initiatives, and pressures, that balance can feel overwhelming.

 

This year, we invite you to step into a different kind of space, one where structure and creativity don’t compete but ignite a shared purpose.

 

At this year’s think! conference, you’ll explore what it means to:

  • Be bold in how you internalize and deliver instruction
  • Reignite your passion through connection to people and purpose
  • Honor guidelines while unlocking creativity that makes learning irresistible
  • And say “yes” to the one idea, one dream, one student, or one colleague who can change everything

 

Going wild isn’t about chaos; it’s about clarity, courage, and conviction. It’s about teaching with intention, leading with heart, and dreaming big enough to transform your classroom, your campus, and your community.

 

Your students need you energized. Your colleagues need your spark. And education needs your wildest, wisest, most inspired self.

 

This is your year to GO WILD.

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2026 sessions

 

  • Wildly Intentional Leadership: Building Joy That Drives Results
  • The Temple Takeover: One Campus, Three Strategies, One ‘A’ Rating
  • Finished ≠ Learned: A Framework for Designing Experiences Students Remember
  • From F to B in Two Years: A Central Office Model for Campus Improvement
  • From Compliance to Coaching: A Plan to Retain Beginning Teachers That Actually Works
  • Go Wild with Tier 1 Instruction: Repairing Foundational Skills Without Lowering the Bar
  • From Missed to Mastered: Turning Mistakes into Wild Opportunities
  • Scripted, Not Silenced: How to Bring Your Creative Voice Into HQIM
  • Wild by Design: Building Tasks That Make Thinking Irresistible
  • Changing Everything Would Be a Wild miSSTep: Leading the Transition from STAAR to SST
  • Reading, Writing, and Structured Freedom: Choice Without Chaos
  • From Survival Mode to Yes, I Can!: A Phase-by-Phase Guide to New Teacher PD
  • Pancakes, Coffee Carts, and Careers: Going Wild with Vocational Skills in Life Skills Classrooms
  • Skee-Ball, Plinko, and the Wild World of Student Engineering
  • Untamed Planning: Wildly Effective Online Lesson Planning
  • Taming the ‘I Taught It’ Instinct: Coaching New Teachers Toward Student Learning
  • Bold Pedagogy: Breaking the Compliance-Creativity Ceiling
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conference schedule

day 1 – wednesday, dec. 2 day 2 – thursday, dec. 3
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

 

preconference options

lead4ward 101
Join us to explore how to use the student-centered, teacher-friendly tools, resources, and strategies from lead4ward to make learning
meaningful and engaging!

being the leader your new teachers need!

Join us for an afternoon exploring what new teachers need from an effective leader and how to prioritize support, making this year on your campus the first of many successful years to come!

tuesday, dec. 1
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

discover, experience, encounter the lost pines resort!

Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa

575 Hyatt Lost Pines Rd
Cedar Creek
512-308-1234