As we gear up for the highly anticipated 2025 GYTO National Conference, we are thrilled to welcome each of you to this transformative event The GYTO community is a powerhouse of passionate educators, and we are honored to come together with those ready to make bold moves that create real, actionable change in education.
This year, our theme is "Make Bold Moves." As educators, it’s time to go beyond dreaming and talking about change—it’s time to act. Bold moves require courage, vision, and a commitment to challenging the status quo to build better opportunities for our students and ourselves. This theme represents the actionable steps we take to innovate, advocate, and elevate our practices for the betterment of education as a whole.
Bold moves are not just individual efforts they are the result of a collective will to progress. Together, at the 2025 National Conference, we’ll explore how to identify barriers, take purposeful action, and amplify the impact of our efforts. This is your chance to share your journey, learn from others, and forge the connections that will propel us all forward.
The conference will feature dynamic speakers who will inspire you to take action, interactive workshops designed to equip you with tangible tools, and game-changing insights that will push you to think differently. You can also expect unforgettable surprises that will leave you energized and ready to lead boldly.
Let’s commit to taking bold moves together and shaping the future of education one step, one decision, and one classroom at a time. This is your time to move, lead, and create meaningful impact.
We can’t wait to see you in Dallas, June 29 - July 2, 2025, as we embrace this call to action and transform our passion into progress Let’s take the steps that will define the future of education— together.
With excitement and anticipation,
AN ALL-NEW GYTO TRACK!
OUR GYTO SCHOOLHOUSE TRACK IS A NEW ALIGNED CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE FOR SCHOOLS & DISTRICTS SENDING A LARGE NUMBER OF TEACHERS AND LEADERS TO THE 2025 GYTO NATIONAL CONFERENCE. TEACHERS & THEIR LEADER(S) CAN EXPERIENCE GYTO TOGETHER IN THE SAME TRACK FOR AN ALIGNED PD EXPERIENCE! Limited Number of Seats Available.
ABOUT THE GYTO SCHOOLHOUSE
Introducing the GYTO Schoolhouse, an exclusive new 2025 GYTO National Conference track intentionally designed to provide an aligned learning and planning experience for schools or districts bringing a large number of teachers to GYTO. This unique collaborative leader and teacher track will focus on fostering school-wide growth and alignment by implementing best instructional practices through high-level professional development and guided instructional planning workshops for your school! This experience is intentionally designed for leaders and their teachers to attend together for an aligned conference experience. The 2025-2026 school year is about to be your school’s best year yet!
SESSION TOPICS INCLUDE…
Research driven and evidence-based instructional strategies and innovative teaching methods for school-wide growth
Creating a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth within schools. Strategies for systemic improvement and building cohesive, effective school environments. Aligned Instructional Planning Workshops with GYTO Team
Check out the full GYTO Schoolhouse Session Lineup & Conference Guide for specific track sessions
This unique track will include guided planning workshops throughout your conference experience for aligned work and planning across grade levels at your school. These will include: Workshops designed to facilitate guided instructional planning across grade levels. Collaborative planning sessions to ensure coherence and consistency in instructional practices. Techniques for vertical alignment of curriculum to ensure smooth transitions between grade levels and strategies for differentiated instruction to meet diverse student needs.
WHY GYTO SCHOOLHOUSE?
Cohesive Professional Development: Ensures that all teachers within a school or district are aligned in their instructional practices and professional growth.
Enhanced Collaboration: Promotes teamwork and collaborative planning among teachers, fostering a unified approach to teaching and learning school-wide.
Improved Student Outcomes: By implementing best practices and aligned instructional strategies across grade levels, schools can ensure they are accelerating student learning and gains.
Leader & Teacher Development: Provides opportunities for school leaders and teachers to enhance their skills and effectively guide their students towards success.
WHY GYTO?
Our Get Your Teach On Leadership and Content Development team has worked to create an engaging and transformational educator professional development experience that aligns directly to the needs of schools and teachers across the country by helping educators develop consistent best instructional practices and processes from start to finish to accelerate student learning
These evidence and research-based best practices, strategies, and techniques will directly impact overall educator effectiveness and student achievement, transforming instruction and student learning like never before.
PLANNING & PREPARATION TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
DATA & PROGRESS MONITORING
BUILDING THE TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHER
Developing Consistent Best Instructional Practices and Processes from Start to Finish to Completely Transform Your School
PLANNING & PREPARATION
THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
BEST INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES
STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY & ENGAGEMENT
DATA & PROGRESS MONITORING
STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY & ENGAGEMENT
Intentional and meaningful planning, using specific grade level content standards and high-quality instructional materials that address the needs of all learners and support mastery of learning goals.
Creates and maintains a collaborative, safe, efficient, and effective learning environment that supports each student’s diverse needs and promotes recognition of student’s diverse personal experiences to build relationships of trust within the classroom.
Implementation of evidence and research-based best instructional strategies and techniques to accelerate student learning, growth, and achievement through rigorous and consistent instruction, including opportunities for problem solving, critical and creative thinking, meaningful and purposeful discourse, and high-impact instructional delivery.
Builds engaging, intentional, and rigorous learning experiences through setting high expectations and consistency within instructional practices that requires all students to take ownership of and be held accountable for their individual learning.
Continually monitors and analyzes student learning and progress towards mastery of learning goals for all students using a variety of progress monitoring and assessment techniques to make immediate instructional decisions that support student growth and acceleration.
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
Develops strong foundational teaching practices and commitments that support best practices and professional growth through consistent reflection of professional practices to support student learning, development, and achievement at a high level.
THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
BEST INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES
Get Your Teach On sessions are intentionally selected for attendees to experience the full professional development experience. Each session is hands-on, interactive, collaborative, and allows time for teachers to take what they’ve learned and apply it to their specific grade level standards or content area.
Sessions are structured to meet the needs of all learners in classrooms, modeling best practices for direct and immediate implementation in classrooms.
2025 GYTO National Conference
SUNDAY JUNE 29
1 3 4 2
schedule is subject to change MONDAY JUNE 30
12:00-5:00 PM REGISTRATION
5:00 PM
DOORS OPEN FOR GYTO OPENING CELEBRATION & KEYNOTE
6:00-9:00 PM GYTO OPENING CELEBRATION & KEYNOTE
8:00-9:45 AM OPENING KEYNOTE 10:15-11:45 AM SESSION 1 11:45-1:15 PM LUNCH
1:15-2:45 PM SESSION 2
3:00-4:30 PM SESSION 3 5:15 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE
TUESDAY JULY 1
8:00-9:45 AM OPENING KEYNOTE
10:15-11:45 AM SESSION 1
11:45-1:15 PM LUNCH
1:15-2:45 PM SESSION 2
3:00-4:30 PM SESSION 3
5:15 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE
WEDNESDAY JULY 2
8:00-9:45 AM OPENING KEYNOTE 10:15-11:45 AM SESSION 1 11:45-1:15 PM LUNCH 1:15-2:45 PM SESSION 2
3:30-4:30 PM GYTO CLOSING SESSION YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!
THE GREAT READING RESCUE
Session Presented by: Naomi O’Brien
THE GREAT WRITING RESCUE
Session Presented by: LaNesha Tabb R SCHOOL’S RUCTIONAL PLAYBOOK on Presented by: King
ONFERENCE GUIDES NCH JANUARY 4
GYTO SCHOOLHOUSE SESSIONS
OUR SCHOOL’S DATA & FFERENTIATION PLAYBOOK
ession Presented by: hris Pombonyo
YOUR SCHOOL’S LITERACY PLAYBOOK
Session Presented by: LaNesha Tabb
MAKING THE UNCOMFORTABLE COMFORTABLE
Session Presented by: Kellee Martin & Lou Ann Keeling
YOUR GYTO PLC: A VISION OF EXCELLENCE
Session Presented by: Chris Pombonyo
FULL CONFERENCE GUID LAUNCH JANUARY 4
FOUR
Four days filled with research-based workshops that will guide you in creating rigorous and engaging lessons all year long.
Keynote presentations from influential educators and motivational speakers that will leave you more inspired than ever to head back into your classrooms and create educational magic!
Training specific for your position from some of today’s top educators and administrators who are experts at their craft with strategies that can be implemented the very next day!
The Education Celebration of the Year kicks off the conference on Sunday night! This is a party you don’t want to miss!
Swag that will make you want to bring an extra suitcase! Not to mention all the free goodies from our sponsors!
Each attendee receives a professional development certificate for 24 hours of quality professional development over the conference’s four days!
GYTO 4-DAY ALL ACCESS PASS: $629
Register now with just a deposit! Final payment won’t be due until March 2025! Invoice and check options are also available for schools and districts.
