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INSPIRE2025

 

Vibrant school communities are those where constant learning is taking place at all levels. ISACS invites you to continue your own learning by attending the ISACS Annual Conference where you will hear about new, energizing, and innovative approaches and strategies to support the learning of all school community members.

 

Details are forthcoming—please check back periodically. Registration will open late August.

The RFP for presenters from ISACS member school is now closed.
For those who submitted proposals for the 2025 Annual Conference, you will be notified via email by June 30, 2025.
For members interested in presenting in the future, please email programinfo@isacs.org.  

Questions? Email programinfo@isacs.org

Keynote Speakers

For the first time in ISACS history, we have invited a speaker to return for back-to-back keynote presentations.
Bertice Berry is that speaker.

More featured speakers will be confirmed in the weeks to come.

Bertice Berry

Bertice Berry, PhD is a sociologist, author, and lecturer. She has published eleven best-selling books and has won many awards and accolades for both her writing and presentations. Berry had her own nationally syndicated television show and has hosted, interviewed, and made numerous television, documentary, and radio appearances on a variety of diverse media including The Tonight Show, Oprah Winfrey, Between the Lions, Crossfire, 20-20, NPR, PBS, and CNN. Berry has used her unique gifts and talents to write for others on a range of topics including race and gender issues, sociological studies, stratification, humor, spirituality, wellness, relationships, servant leadership, transformational leadership, diversity, and love. Berry has been awarded over 10 honorary doctorates. She earned her doctoral degree at the age of 26 and still sees her most fulfilling achievement as that of mother to her five adopted children. As a character in one of her novels states, “if you ain’t dead, you ain’t done.” Berry believes that every one of us has been given a unique purpose and it is our obligation to find it and use it to improve our own self first and then with whom we live and work.

David Yeager

David Yeager, PhD is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the cofounder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute. He is best known for his research conducted with Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, and Greg Walton on short but powerful interventions that influence adolescent behaviors such as motivation, engagement, healthy eating, bullying, stress, mental health, and more. He is the author of the bestselling book 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation―And Making Your Own Life Easier which was published in 2024. He has consulted for Google, Microsoft, Disney, and the World Bank, as well as for the White House and the governments in California, Texas, and Norway. His research has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, CNN, Fox News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and more. Clarivate Web of Science ranks Yeager as one of the top 0.1% most-influential psychologists in the world over the past decade. Prior to his career as a scientist, he was a middle school teacher and a basketball coach. He earned his PhD and MA at Stanford University and his BA and MEd at the University of Notre Dame.