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NOVEMBER 2-3, 2025 | GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL | CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
   
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About Our Formats
We encourage you to design your session creatively, utilizing a format that most effectively engages your audience with your content and materials. Traditional lectures or demonstrations, workshops, and roundtables are longtime Annual Conference session formats. The panel and "Birds of a Feather Gathering" formats are new introductions for the 2025 Annual Conference. We're eager to see what you make of them!
Submitters will indicate their preferred session format in the proposal form. Read on to learn more about each.
Traditional Lecture or Demonstration
A formal 50-minute session in which the speaker(s) shares a traditional, lecture-style presentation followed by a response to audience questions.
Single-Block Workshop
A 50-minute session that emphasizes hands-on experience with a concept or skill, audience collaboration, and one-on-one facilitator engagement throughout.
Double-Block Workshop
A 110-minute session that emphasizes hands-on experience with a few concepts or skills, ample audience collaboration, and one-on-one facilitator engagement throughout. Double-Block Workshops allows for a deeper dive and do not include a break.
Panel
A 50-minute structured conversation featuring a moderator and three to four panelists discussing a particular theme or topic. While there might be some room for audience questions in a panel format, attendees are primarily observers learning from the speakers.
Roundtable
Also a 50-minute structured and thematic conversation, roundtables are more relaxed and center the audience in the discussion. An effective roundtable might include a 20-minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of whole-group discussion around prepared, targeted questions posed by the facilitator. The goal of a roundtable is to dig deep into a particular topic, learning with and from everyone in the room.
Ignite Talk
Only 5-minutes long, an Ignite presentation is a fun and highly engaging presentation format where speakers prepare a presentation of only 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. The result is a dynamic and incredibly focused presentation that leaves the audience with an impactful message. We will accept eight Ignite presentations from a variety of topics, which will be given in rapid succession during a 50-minute session block on Monday, November 3rd. The Ignite format is particularly effective in highlighting impactful lessons or projects, classroom routines, school traditions, or teacher-support initiatives. Visuals might emphasize student work samples, photos, or muted video clips.
Birds of a Feather Gathering
A small and informal gathering of attendees with similar interests, roles, questions, or aims. Little to no preparation is required, and length is flexible.
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Projected Professional Development Hours
Attendance for both days = 11 hours
Attendance on Monday only = 7.5 hours
TAIS Board-Approved Cancellation Policy
Attendees will receive a full refund for an in-person conference if they cancel up to six weeks prior to the event and a 50% refund up to four weeks before the event. Refunds are not possible after four weeks prior to the event due to the costs incurred for food orders, hotel contracts, venue costs, and other administrative and setup fees. All refunds will reflect a 15% administration fee.
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