The 2026 Convening will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC.
Tuesday, February 3 |
Wednesday, February 4 |
Thursday, February 5 |
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| Welcome Reception 4:00pm to 6:00pm Appetizers and drinks available. Join us for community-building and welcome. | Convening 9:00am to 6:00pm Join us for a whole group keynote, topical breakouts, workshops, and networking led by members and experts, and the closing reception. | Optional School Visits 8:30am to 12:00pm Join us for school visits to DC-area DCSC member schools. See your School Visit Options. |
Have ideas about what you want to see at the upcoming convening? Share them in our Wants and Needs Survey!
Welcome Reception
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Appetizers and drinks available. Join us for community-building and welcome.
To better coordinate school visits and ensure a meaningful experience, visits this year are optional and available to those who purchase an additional $85 ticket. Tickets are limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. If your preferred school visit is full, join the waitlist and register for another visit in the interim. If space becomes available, we will email those on the waitlist.
DC International is an International Baccalaureate (IB) for All School – making a traditionally selective curriculum accessible to every student. Our unique member school model sustains continuous language learning in Chinese, French, and Spanish, empowering multilingual, culturally competent learners to engage with global issues and lead.
E.L Haynes is a learning community where every student—of every race, socioeconomic status, home language, and ability—prepares to thrive in college, career, and life. Together, we create a more just and kind world.
The Social Justice School is a liberatory middle school where diverse learners grow as scholar-activists and community designers, using inquiry and social justice to reimagine what school can be.
DC Bilingual is a blue ribbon, dual-language immersion school that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both Spanish and English, develops leadership, values all cultures, and builds an inclusive community for all students and families.
Inspired Teaching is a student-led learning community where student voice, choice, and competence is at the core, and teaching professionals engage in ongoing, reflective, and collaborative practice.
Capital City is an EL education school where students of all backgrounds build deep content knowledge, strong character, and the skills to tackle complex challenges in school and beyond.
| Phase | Member | Non-Member |
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| Before Sept 5 | $325 | $525 |
| Before Oct 24 | $425 | $525 |
| Before Dec 12 | $525 | $625 |
| After Dec 12 | $625 | $725 |
Liz Kleinrock (she/her) is an award-winning educator and best-selling author, as well as a Korean-American transracial adoptee, queer, Jewish woman. In 2018, Liz received the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2019 delivered her TED Talk, “How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics.” In the spring of 2021, Liz released her first book, Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community with Heinemann Publishing, and is excited to share the publication of four children’s books with HarperCollins including the recent release of What Jewish Looks Like. She currently resides in Washington DC.
Should you require special accommodations due to a disability, please reach out to our program lead at ccancelli@diversecharters.org at least one month prior to the convening and note your request on your registration form. We are excited to have you with us!
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Welcome Reception
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Appetizers and drinks available. Join us for community-building and welcome.
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