PHOTO RECAP: An event built with community, for the future

On May 12, Education Evolving hosted, with generous support from the Bush Foundation, Student-Centered Learning for Equity 2025: The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create. Hundreds of educators, students, and community leaders gathered to participate in a growing movement for equitable, student-centered learning.

Thank you to all who were able to join and make the day a success.

Keynote speaker Christopher Emdin grabs a photo with student emcees from Lakota Tech High School.

A student panelist speaks in a session on empowering refugee and immigrant students in the classroom.

Community partners from Youth Lens 360 ask guests to share what the event theme means to them.

Students participate in a fishbowl-style conversation about their education experience.

Full breakout sessions share actionable tools and fresh ideas—as well as build new connections.

Attendees create pieces of art representing “the stories we carry” to keep and to share.

SCL4E participants share their reactions inspired by the theme of the day, “The Stories We Carry & The Future We Create”. Video by Youth Lens 360.