Join us for a special session featuring Paul Emerich France, a teacher, author, and advocate for sustainable teaching practices.

Paul is a National Board Certified Teacher, instructional coach, keynote speaker, and adjunct professor with over a decade of experience teaching transitional kindergarten through fifth grade. He is the founder of Make Teaching Sustainable and the author of My Students Can’t Write (2025), Make Teaching Sustainable (2023), and Reclaiming Personalized Learning (2022).

Paul’s work has been featured in Edutopia, EdSurge, Educational Leadership, and The Learning Professional. He has recently partnered with organizations such as SXSW EDU, ASCD, the National Board, and school districts across the country to support educators in building more human-centered classrooms.

The 2025/2026 Elevating Teacher Voice discussion series is hosted by longtime educator Jan Iwase. Each session follows a simple and meaningful format: a guest educator (or educators) reads aloud their own writing, then opens the floor for reflection and conversation. No pre-work. No homework. Just deep listening, dialogue, and connection. Now in its third year, Elevating Teacher Voice has inspired hundreds of educators to reimagine teaching and learning, explore answers to the question What could school be?, and build authentic relationships with fellow educators and education leaders who write.