2025 GACIS Fall Conference
Brightening Futures: The Guided Light of Instructional Leadership
September 25-26, 2025 | The Classic Center, Athens, GA
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Register today for the 54th Annual GACIS Fall Conference! Registration for this in person event is limited.
Registration Cost: $425 (Member Rate) & $525 (Non-member Rate).
Important Note: You are registering for the GACIS Conference only. You must complete a separate registration for the GaDOE Day Conference.
Featuring Keynote Speakers:
John Almarode, Ph.D. is a Professor of Education in the College of Education at James Madison University. At James Madison University, he continues to work with pre‑service teachers and graduate students, as well as actively pursues his research interests including the science of learning and the design and measurement of classroom environments that promote the greatest gains in student learning. John works closely with John Hattie’s Visible Learning research, The Visible Learning® research base represents more than 2,103 meta-analyses comprising more than 132,000 studies involving more than 300 million students around the world. The Visible Learning research has identified more than 350 factors that influence student achievement. Upcoming projects include coaching, and how we, as teachers, evidence our impact on student learning, and the nature and value of struggle in the classroom.
Jim Knight, Ph.D. is a founding senior partner of the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. Knight has written several books and his articles on instructional coaching have been included in publications such as The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Teachers Teaching Teachers. He directs Pathways to Success, a comprehensive, district-wide school reform project in the Topeka, Kansas, School District and leads the Intensive Instructional Coaching Institutes and the Teaching Learning Coaching annual conference.
Cancellation Policy for the 2025 GACIS Fall Conference is as follows and acknowledgement is required during registration:
Due to commitments to our facilities, No cancellations/refunds after September 1, 2025. All cancellations after September 1, 2025 will be charged the full registration fee. No-shows will be charged the full registration fee. All cancellations must be in writing. Please email Dr. Claire Buck to cancel clairebuck@gacis1971.org.