Pedagogy Showcase:
Igniting Excellence
NOVEMBER 7, 2026 • 8:30–11:00 A.M. (CENTRAL) • ONLINE
Practical Strategies. Powerful Learning.
Great teaching grows one strategy at a time.
Join TCEA for Pedagogy Showcase: Igniting Excellence, an online professional learning experience designed to fill your instructional toolbox with practical ideas you can put to work right away.
In just two and a half hours, you’ll explore classroom-ready strategies for strengthening instruction, increasing student engagement, checking for understanding, and helping students think more deeply.
Led by TCEA’s Professional Development team, each focused session gets straight to what matters: useful strategies, helpful resources, and ideas you can adapt for your students and learning environment.
Why Attend the Pedagogy Showcase?
The answer is simple: strategies, resources, and inspiration.
Discover
Explore practical instructional strategies you can adapt to your grade level, content area, and students.
Learn
Spend two and a half focused hours learning alongside TCEA’s Professional Development team through short, high-impact sessions.
Apply
Walk away with ideas, tools, and resources designed to move quickly from professional learning to classroom practice.
Keep Learning
Revisit the learning after the event with access to session recordings and supporting resources.
Explore practical approaches to:
- Strengthen everyday classroom instruction
- Engage students more meaningfully in learning
- Make student thinking and understanding visible
- Support a variety of student learning needs
- Use digital tools and AI purposefully
- Turn instructional strategies into classroom action
Who Should Attend?
This event is designed for:
- Teachers
- Instructional coaches
- Curriculum and instruction leaders
- Instructional specialists
- Other educators who support teaching and learning
What’s Planned?
Two and a half hours of CPE credit. Four focused sessions. Plenty of ideas to take back to your classroom.
During the Pedagogy Showcase, TCEA Professional Development team members will lead four engaging sessions centered on effective teaching and learning.
Topics will explore areas such as:
- Effective feedback
- Assessing and activating prior knowledge
- Formative assessment and exit tickets
- Project-based learning and critical thinking
- Making student thinking visible
Schedule
| TIME | SESSION |
| 8:30 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. | Welcome |
| 8:40 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. | Session 1 Exit Tickets That Spark Next Steps Presenter: Peggy Reimers |
| 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Session 2 Strategies to Assess Prior Knowledge Presenter: Diana Benner |
| BREAK 9:45 a.m. – 9:55 a.m. | |
| 9:55 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. | Session 3 Mastering the Feedback Loop: Strategies, Tools, and AI Presenter: Dr. Bruce Ellis |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Session 4 PBL for Critical Thinking: Designing Projects That Outsmart AI Shortcuts Presenter: Miguel Guhlin |
* Schedule subject to change. All times are Central.
Build Confidence. Strengthen Instruction.
Working toward a Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) designation or entering the classroom through an Alternative Certification Program (ACP)? Discover practical strategies for feedback, formative assessment, and student engagement. TIA-focused teachers can strengthen practices that support effective classroom instruction and student growth—central components of local designation systems. ACP teachers can connect preparation to practice with classroom-ready ideas for checking understanding, responding to student needs, and planning what comes next.
ACP participants should confirm with their program whether this event’s CPE hours count toward program requirements.
Ready to Ignite Excellence?
Great instruction doesn’t always require a complete classroom overhaul. Sometimes one new strategy, one small shift, or one fresh idea can make a meaningful difference.
Spend your Saturday morning with TCEA and leave with practical approaches you can use to strengthen teaching and learning right away.
Whether you’re a teacher, instructional coach, curriculum and instruction leader, or instructional support professional, the Pedagogy Showcase is designed to help you add new ideas to your instructional toolkit and continue growing your practice.
Registration Information
$99
Member Pricing
$129
Non-Member Pricing
Bringing Your Team?
Groups of 10 or more receive $10 off each registration.
Registration Includes:
- Access to the live two and a half hour Pedagogy Showcase
- Four professional learning sessions
- Access to session recordings
- A collection of templates, tools, and session resources
- Discount on Strategy Spotlight Series