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2026 Bold By Choice Summit Sessions, Gala and School Tour Photos

2026 Bold By Choice Summit, Gala Awards, and School Tours | April 27-29, 2026 → Bold By Choice Summit Sessions → Bold By Choice Gala Awards → Bold By Choice Summit School Tours Bold By Choice Summit Sessions Watch Bold Talks Bold By Choice Gala Awards View Award Winners Bold By Choice Summit School Tours

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 Gala Awards

April 28, 2026 Awards Stewards of Possibility: Congratulations to Colorado Charter School Institute Award: Stewards of PossibilityThe Stewards of Possibility award recognizes and honors organizations that are stewarding possibility by challenging the givens, pioneering new and different approaches, and passionately pursuing excellence for all students. Why They Were SelectedCSI stands out nationally for demonstrating that…

Student Light Show: West Michigan Academy of Arts and Academics

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Student Performance Featuring Students from West Michigan Academy of Arts and Academics | April 28, 2026 Thank you, West Michigan Academy of Arts and Academics, for such a great performance!

Student Panel: Featuring Students from Jalen Rose Leadership Academy

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Student Panel: Featuring Students from Jalen Rose Leadership Academy (Ricky Claxton, Cierra Gee, Martez Rich, Tony Crawford, Christian Brock, and Chanelle Piercefield) | April 28, 2026

Student Stories: How Flexibility Fuels Student Success | Flex High School Graduates

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Bold Talk by Aviya Torns-Taylor and India Harris, graduates of Flex High School in Flint, MI (Introduced by Valerie Chase and brought to you by Lifelong Learning https://llac.org/) | April 28, 2026

Is A.I. the Beginning or End of Education? | Nick Sheltrown

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Bold Talk by Nick Sheltrown (National Heritage Academies) | April 28, 2026

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Workforce Strategy Your School is Ignoring | Kofi Kinney

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Bold Talk by Kofi Kinney (New Teachers on the Block) | April 28, 2026

Don’t Make Them Wait: Break the Playbook | Gary Larson

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Bold Talk by Gary Larson (Larson Communications) | April 28, 2026

Bold Enough to Decide: Standing on What Matters Most in Schools and Systems | Nautrie Jones

Bold By Choice Summit 2026 | Bold Talk by Nautrie Jones (Empact Work, LLC)

Growing the Canopy: Bringing Career-Connected Charter Schools into the National Conversation

Across the country, there are extraordinarily exciting things happening inside many charter schools. Students designing aircraft components alongside engineers. High schoolers logging hours in real medical clinics or veterinary labs. Welding students fabricating parts that will actually be used by local manufacturers. Future teachers leading lessons in elementary classrooms while still in high school. Others…

Student Career & Workforce Planning Map

From Industry Need → Student Opportunity → Action  Strong student career pathways are built when workforce needs are clearly defined, student experiences are intentionally designed, and partnerships are purposefully activated. Use this simple map to begin brainstorming how workforce needs connect to student opportunities. It helps you quickly surface gaps, identify partners, and start shaping next steps—ideas…

Bold by Choice Podcast | About S2 E5: Chartering the Frontier

About Season 2 Episode 5: Chartering the Frontier Every region has its trailblazers. In the early 1990s, California and Colorado became unlikely frontiers for the charter school movement. Their laws didn’t pass by chance. They were the product of bold leadership, creative coalition-building, and relentless persistence. California’s story is one of speed, innovation, and unlikely…

Bold by Choice Podcast | About S2 E4: Charters Go National

About Season 2 Episode 4: Charters Go National Great ideas rarely succeed on vision alone. They need champions. They need strategy. They need leaders willing to ask bold questions and act when the window opens. That’s exactly what happened when the chartering idea began to move from a spark in Minnesota to a national movement….

Bold by Choice Podcast | About S2 E3: The First Law

About Season 2 Episode 3: The First Law Behind every bold law is a bolder story. In this episode of Bold by Choice, we step into the moment that changed everything—the birth of the first charter school law. It wasn’t a straight path. It wasn’t inevitable. And it certainly wasn’t easy. But it’s in the…

Bold by Choice Podcast | About S2 E2: Ideas to Action

About Season 2, Episode 2: Ideas to Action “You can’t expect new results from old designs.” Those words capture the essence of Ted Kolderie’s legacy—and the heart of this episode of Bold by Choice Podcast. Kolderie isn’t just another policy thinker. He is a systems designer, a civic leader who challenged us to stop patching…

Bold by Choice Podcast | About S2 E1: The Idea

About Season 2, Episode 1: The Idea Every movement has a beginning. For chartering, it did not start with national policy, but with a bold idea scribbled on paper, shared in speeches, debated in think tanks, and carried into law by people who believed public education could be more than what it was.  In this first episode of…

Is Public Education Obsolete?

How Chartering Can Build a Better Future for Students, Educators, and Communities A Tribute to Ted Kolderie at 95 By Jim Goenner, Ph.D. Everything Becomes Obsolete Everything that stops growing and adapting eventually becomes obsolete. Not because it fails, but because the world keeps changing.  The horse did not fail; the car made it unnecessary. Candles did…

Strategy & Leadership Capacity Building

Whether you’re looking for an external evaluation of your current practices or are new to authorizing and are looking to set up the best systems for your, our team of experienced experts are ready to help. Receive honest, professional, and insightful guidance and resources from experienced authorizers.

Academic, Financial, and Organizational Oversight and Frameworks

We help authorizers develop and implement comprehensive oversight systems and performance frameworks that align with state law and your vision for quality. Ensuring every oversight decision is grounded in data and driven by purpose.

New School & Start-Up Support for Boards

If you are seeking best practices or looking for the policies your school must legally adopt, we have what you need. Our policies and procedures are being used on a daily basis in scores of charter schools. Our material is legally grounded, practically tested and user friendly.