2025 Concept-Based Learning Conference


Date: Oct 24-26th, 2025
Time: 8:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Shanghai Vanke Bilingual School, Shanghai, China

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Conference Overview:

By gathering professionals, educators, stakeholders who share a common interest in international education area and pursuing to elevate the quality of the school and student.Through our pre-conference workshop, keynote speeches, and parallel sessions with professional, participants would have a chance to learn innovative teaching methods and tools, teachers can create more engaging and effective learning environments, ultimately fostering better communication and understanding with their students.

We are expecting this conference to:
·Provide a platform for educators to discuss the latest research findings, best practices, innovations, and challenges.
·Facilitate networking, collaboration, and exchange of ideas among the participants and speakers, organizers, sponsors, and exhibitors.
·Enhance the professional development, skills, knowledge, and competencies of the participants through workshops, seminars, keynote speeches, panel discussions, poster sessions, and other interactive formats.
· Raise awareness, advocacy, and support for the issues, trends, policies, and initiatives that affect the field of education and its stakeholders.
· Inspire, motivate, and empower the participants to pursue their personal and professional goals and aspirations in the field of education.


Keynote Speaker Biography: Rachel French

Director of Professional Learning International and certified Independent Concept-Based Consultant, workshop facilitator, trainer, and author, Rachel French, MA Ed. has led innovative curriculum design and transformed how educators teach and students learn for over 12 years.

Mentored by the founders of Concept-Based Curriculum themselves, Dr. H Lynn Erickson and Dr. Lois A. Lanning, Rachel was entrusted with the exclusive worldwide rights to be the sole provider of the Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction (CBCI) Trainer Certification Institute — the certification that kick-started her journey into Concept-Based Inquiry.

Rachel French, Dr. Lynn Erickson, and Dr. Lois Lanning have co-authored the second edition of ‘Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom,’ 2017, and Carla Marschall and Rachel French co-authored ‘Concept-Based Inquiry in Action’ (2018).

Rachel has presented numerous workshops and conferences on Concept-Based Learning globally and now hosts the annual Concept-Based Inquiry Learning Labs Conference. This conference is dedicated to bringing together passionate CBI educators from around the globe.

Rachel’s mission is to help other educators transform their classrooms and schools by accessing leading professional development, planning and implementing Concept-Based Inquiry units, and adopting a Concept-Based curriculum development approach.

Registration Fee:
Pre-Conference workshop on Friday: USD 280 (RMB 2000) per participant
Conference on Saturday to Sunday: USD 420 (RMB 3000) per participant
Workshop & Conference on Friday to Sunday: USD 560 (RMB4000) per participant
(The above fee Includes refreshments and lunches)
Refreshment Break: coffee, tea, bottle waters, snack and fruits
Lunch: school lunches for two days and a social event on Saturday

Certificate: E-certificate signed by Workshop Leader and Director of IES will be issued after the conference..

Refund Policy:
Refunds for the conference may only be issued if cancelled by the conference leader(for reasons beyond their control) and we failed to find a suitable time for most of participants; or registered participant informs IES he/she is not able to show up before 31/08/2025;
If there is insufficient registration before 31/08/2025 the IES will inform participants of the cancellation and refund the actual paid registration fee only.

Photo Policy:
By attending the conference, you acknowledge and consent to the capture of your image by official photographers and videographers. The resulting materials, which may include still photographs, video recordings, and audio recordings, can be utilized by IES without restriction in news articles, promotional content, on the website, and across other platforms.

Click here view our previous 2024 Concept-Based Learning Conference