Education for Every Generation

When: March 7, 2025 8:45 am – 5:00 pm CT

Where: Education Building, WI Idea Room 159, 1000 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706

Program Fee: Free; pre-registration required

Register Here: 2025 EPS Conference Registration Form (google.com)

Proposal Submission: 2025 EPS Conference Call for Proposals – Google Forms

Education for Every Generation stems from the Seventh Generation cultural value of the Indigenous philosophy of the Haudenosaunee Tribe ([h-oh-D-EE-n-oh-SH-oh- n-ee]). This keeps in mind the next seven generations to guide our decisions and actions today, inspiring us to ask questions such as: How are we guided by those who came before us? How do our actions impact those to come? What can education look like for every generation?

The 2025 EPS Conference pushes us to traverse across space and time and to consider what it means to be educators, scholars, and advocates for generations to come. In a time of conflict, with grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren facing violence all over the world, we hold the responsibility to deeply reflect on the following questions: How do we map a better future for the generations to come? How do we think about alternative educational opportunities amid complex times? How do we consider what we are borrowing from future generations?

This year’s conference brings together a wide variety of voices and scholarship with several keynote panels, speakers, and breakout sessions, including:

1) Indigenous advocates and educators who will illuminate the efforts of language revitalization and the importance of behaving as elders-in-training

2) International voices who will help us only scratch the surface of what it means to navigate moments of conflict

3) Art and Education and Policy in Practice presenters who will help us dream of what is possible