CAACE 44th Annual Conference, March 13 & 14, 2025
Mystic Marriott, Groton, Connecticut
Wondering why you should attend our 2025 CAACE Conference? Here from some of last year’s attendees.
2025 Keynote Speaker: Ryan Parker
Meet our CAACE 2025 Keynote Speaker, Ryan Parker, pictured above. Ryan brings a mix of talents including 20+ years in education, a hip-hop artist/poet, author, husband, father, brother, mama’s boy, chocolate chip cookie lover and was named as the 2020 Peace Hero of Connecticut and 2022 CT Community Kindness Hero. Ryan’s career in teaching has been dedicated towards challenging United States education norms, reimagining what school looks, sounds and feels like through a justice lens and applying that reimagination to his own pedagogy while influencing and supporting other educators in doing the same. As Manchester’s Race & Equity Coordinator who presents regularly at education conferences and various schools and universities abroad, Ryan’s work focuses on race in education, the power of hip-hop pedagogy and the necessity of centering Black and Brown youth amplifying their lived experiences, voices and brilliance! As the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Manchester, CT and the coach of the Manchester-based youth spoken word poetry slam team PaperVoices, Parker's work as a poet, educator and activist extends outside of the walls of a school building.
To learn more about Ryan go to: www.RyanTParker.org | www.ProjectHappyvism.com
44th Annual CAACE Conference
Award Nominations are Now Open
Do you have a special student, how about a dynamic educator, leader or support staff? Now's the time to show them how much they mean to your program and students.
Nominations for the 2025 CAACE Conference are now being accepted in the following categories:
CAACE Professional Educator/Support Staff Award
CAACE Adult Learner Self Nomination Scholarship Award
(Note that up to 6 scholarship awards can be given. We try to make at least one award per mandated program.)
Nominations close December 27, 2024
Above: 2024 Student Award winners
