August 4-6, 2026: Downtown Juneau
Learning from Our Ancestors, Shaping Our Future
Learning from Our Ancestors, Shaping Our Future
August 4-6, 2026: Downtown Juneau
Learning from Our Ancestors, Shaping Our Future
August 4-6, 2026: Downtown Juneau
Learning from Our Ancestors, Shaping Our Future
August 4-6, 2026: Downtown Juneau
Registration is now Open!
Are you passionate about culturally responsive pedagogies? Join us and keynote speaker and author, former Alaska Writer Laureate and Rasmuson Distinguished Artist Award-winner, Ernestine Hayes, in beautiful downtown Juneau, Alaska from August 4-6.
KEYNOTE & FEATURED SPEAKERS
Featured
Dr. Lauren Eckert
Eckert is a conservation scientist, storyteller, and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.
Keynote
Ernestine Saankaláxt Hayes
Hayes belongs to the Kaagwaantaan clan of the Tlingit nation. She is an accomplished artist and writer. Hayes is a University of Alaska professor emerita and resides in Juneau.
Featured
Nasya Mo’osk’im gibuu Moore
Moore is a scientist from the Leq'á:mel First Nation and Nisga'a Nation.
WELCOME TO OUR CULTURAL LANDSCAPE CONFERENCE
This event provides educators and administrators with a deep understanding of culturally responsive education and equips them to transform their classrooms, pedagogy, and curriculum to fully support all students’ success—especially those who have been historically underserved, disenfranchised, and marginalized by colonized systems.
LEARNING FROM OUR ANCESTORS, SHAPING OUR FUTURE
This year’s theme honors the wisdom passed down through our roots, the teachings of our ancestors, and the knowledge embedded in our languages and traditions.
Listen to the theme in Lingít, X̱aad Kíl, and Shm’algyack, the languages of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian tribes of Southeast Alaska.