Zhang Auditorium filled for a keynote. Attendees sit in the blue seats, three people sit on the stage, and the screen names Eli Luberoff and Pooja Shaw.

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Evans Hall at Yale School of Management

For one day, this room puts classrooms, laboratories, and statehouses within arm’s reach of each other.

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A crowded ballroom from an earlier conference. People sit at round tables under chandeliers.
On the Zhang Auditorium stage, a person speaks at the Yale School of Management podium. The screen names keynote speaker Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, superintendent of Hartford Public Schools.
Three people talk from blue armchairs on a stage.
Students in Education Leadership Conference shirts pose in front of a gray paneled wall.
Three people with coffee stand in front of the rainbow wall drawing in Evans Hall.
A group, including a child, stands in the Evans Hall lobby. Several shirts say Desmos.
Two people smile in the Evans Hall lobby, with an expo table behind them.
Two people stand at a Proud Academy table in front of the rainbow wall drawing.
Two people smile behind a Teach For America table in the Evans Hall lobby.
Two people stand at a terraruma Schools table in the Evans Hall lobby.
People talk beside a table for The Broad Center at Yale School of Management.
Attendees in the blue seats of Zhang Auditorium turn toward the camera.
Eli Luberoff stands on the Zhang Auditorium stage. The screen names Eli Luberoff and Pooja Shaw as keynote speakers.
A panel sits on a classroom stage beneath a screen for the Education Collaboratory.
A panel sits at the front of a curved classroom while the audience listens. The screens show that session’s speakers.
Two people sit in blue armchairs on the Zhang Auditorium stage and talk.
Two people sit on the Zhang Auditorium stage. The screen names keynote speaker Dr. Warren Morgan, CEO of Cleveland Metropolitan Public Schools.

A few candids from our most recent conferences.

Past keynotes

We’ll announce the 2027 keynotes soon. In the meantime, here are a few of the people who have taken this stage before — see the archive for the full list.

Portrait of Dr. Miguel Cardona, in a gray plaid suit, with an American flag and the Department of Education seal behind him.

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Dr. Miguel Cardona

12th U.S. Secretary of Education

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Every spring, one room fills with the people moving education forward — classroom teachers and community organizers in the same seats as superintendents, nonprofit founders, and the policymakers shaping decisions at the state and federal level.

It’s put on each year by students in the Yale School of Management Education Club. We’ll announce the 2027 speakers and sessions soon — until then, last year’s program gives a good feel for how the day comes together.