Join educational leaders across the country who are building stronger systems through research, implementation, collaboration, and innovation.
District Assembly benefits and pricing
Rather than functioning as a traditional conference series, CAREI’s District Assembly serves as a continuous educational leadership network focused on the implementation of evidence-based practices, current educational policies, and sustainable systems change.
District Assembly provides leaders with:
- Access to the District Assembly member portal for your entire team
- Access to monthly issues of District Assembly Research Watch
- Quarterly learning sessions with expert speakers and facilitated discussions
- Leadership implementation tools and resources
- Cross-district and collaborative networking opportunities
Why join District Assembly?
District Assembly organizes its work around four interconnected pillars, which help educational leaders move from awareness to action and from isolated initiatives to coherent systems improvement:
Research
What We Know
Innovation
What's Emerging
Implementation
How We Make It Work
Network
Who We Learn With
When you join District Assembly, you're joining a network of peer districts, states, and educational organizations from across the country in a leadership network that includes executive-level professional learning opportunities, leadership support, tailored research updates from the field, a suite of implementation tools and resources, and more.
Membership in District Assembly will provide every member of your team with:
Hold the date for our 2026-27 District Assembly sessions!
This year we’ll be tackling top-priority topics for today’s educational leaders, including: mental health in schools, AI in education, evidence-based literacy and math instruction, and early childhood MTSS implementation.
More details will be announced soon!
Session 1: The Canons of Literacy and Mathematics: What Every Educator Needs to Know
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 9 a.m.-noon CST
Presenters: Linda Diamond, Paige Pullen, Ben Solomon, Nicole McKevett
What knowledge and skills should all students master? How do we create coherence and aligned EBPs across curriculum, intervention, and assessment? Through this session, participants will leave with a process for evaluating the coherence of their literacy and mathematics systems, including curriculum, intervention and assessment: strengthening alignment around evidence-based practices, reducing fragmentation, and ensuring that instructional resources and initiatives support the knowledge and skills students need most.
Session 2: Thursday, January 21, 2027, 9 a.m.-noon CST
Session 3: Thursday, March 4, 2027, 9 a.m.-noon CST
Session 4: Thursday, May 6, 2027, 9 a.m.-noon CST
Join District Assembly today
For more than 20 years, CAREI District Assembly: A National Leadership and Systems Improvement Network has brought together university researchers and school practitioners from around the country. Membership in the assembly is an investment in the professional development of your school, district, or organization's staff and leaders.
After completing the form below, a CAREI associate will reach out within five business days with further information and your invoice. If you have any questions, please email carei@umn.edu. Your form submission confirmation email will contain information pertaining to accessing your District Assembly member portal. We can't wait to see you at the next District Assembly!