The idea
Solve today. Design for tomorrow.
Education is changing quickly — new technologies, shifting expectations, and increasingly complex challenges are asking schools to think differently about what comes next. But meaningful progress requires more than keeping up.
Lighthouse ATL brings together educators, school leaders, designers, innovators, researchers, and partners doing the important work of education today while actively designing what comes next.
Lighthouse person
Someone who sees what’s possible beyond the familiar and has the courage to chart a new course.
You'll leave with more than ideas that disappear on the drive home.
After years of partnering with schools through Mount Vernon Ventures, we built Lighthouse ATL around one idea: educators need a place to make sense of what’s changing, learn together, and turn ideas into action.
You’ll walk away with:
- Clarity on what actually matters
- Confidence to lead through uncertainty
- Tools you can use right away
- New ways to design meaningful learning
- A network of educators doing the same work
That's what's waiting for you in Atlanta.
Clarity, confidence, tools, and a network of people doing the same work.
Navigate change · Design learning · Illuminate the future
Four Conference Strands
Choose the ideas, conversations, and experiences most relevant to your role, your school, and the questions you're asking right now.
Leadership & Talent Development
Develop people. Build culture. Lead what's next.
Leadership & Talent Development
Develop people. Build culture. Lead what's next.
Explore the human side of school transformation through leadership development, coaching, professional growth, compensation and advancement, vision and storytelling, and the intentional cultivation of belonging and community.
Future-Ready Pedagogies
Design learning for the world students are entering.
Future-Ready Pedagogies
Design learning for the world students are entering.
Explore evolving approaches to teaching, learning, assessment, and curriculum, including mastery-based learning, inquiry, personalized pathways, authentic assessment, student agency, and future-ready curriculum design.
Innovating Programs & Systems
Rethink the structures that make learning possible.
Innovating Programs & Systems
Rethink the structures that make learning possible.
Move beyond individual classrooms to examine how programs, structures, processes, and systems can be redesigned. Explore design thinking, data and dashboards, program innovation, implementation strategies, and new models for school.
AI & Emergent Technology
Explore what's emerging. Build what's possible.
AI & Emergent Technology
Explore what's emerging. Build what's possible.
Move from conversation to experimentation with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Explore generative and agentic AI, hands-on bot development, immersive experiences, virtual and augmented reality, portals, and the technologies beginning to reshape teaching, learning, and school operations.
Design Your Future.
Join us in Atlanta for two days of discovery, experimentation, conversation, connection, and action.
Bring your questions. Bring your challenges. Bring your curiosity.
Navigate change · Design learning · Illuminate the future
