KEYNOTES
Inspiring & Energizing Teachers for Meaningful Change
Dr. Catlin Tucker is a highly sought-after speaker who has delivered keynotes worldwide, inspiring educators to rethink traditional teaching models and embrace innovative, sustainable practices.

Available keynotes
Shifting Workflows: Let Students Lead & Avoid Teacher Burnout
Teachers are burning out at record levels. They’re drowning in unrealistic expectations and doing the lion’s share of the work in classrooms. It’s time to shift from time-consuming, teacher-led, and often frustratingly ineffective workflows to sustainable student-led workflows that position learners at the center of the learning experience. Grounding these student-led workflows in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and leveraging blended learning models to shift control to students can help all students develop into expert learners capable of acquiring information and making meaning. These reimagined workflows also free teachers from the front of the room to spend more time working alongside individual and small groups of learners.
Harnessing AI to Design Equitable Learning Experiences
Educators teach beautifully diverse groups of students with various skill levels, needs, language proficiencies, and learning preferences. Too often, this diversity is seen as problematic or a challenge to be overcome. Before AI, designing for this diversity and learner variability was an arduous, time-consuming process that felt unsustainable. AI simplifies this design work, alleviating the pressure on teachers to spend hours designing lessons and providing feedback. Educators using AI should view it as a powerful thought partner, inspiring purposeful and creative design that strives to remove barriers, create flexible pathways, and free teachers to work directly with learners. AI should elevate the teaching profession and amplify the teacher’s impact in classrooms.
Making Time for What Matters in Education
For too long, education has prioritized content coverage over deep learning. But in a world where information is everywhere and AI is evolving, the true value of education lies in human connection, critical thinking, and meaningful engagement.
This keynote challenges educators to shift from delivering information to empowering students as active participants—freeing teachers to focus on what truly matters: building relationships, providing targeted support, and designing inclusive, impactful learning experiences.
Reignite Teacher and Student Engagement
The past few years have taken a toll on both teachers and students, leaving many educators feeling exhausted and disillusioned. Yet, teacher engagement is the key to reigniting student engagement, curiosity, and motivation.
Dr. Catlin Tucker delves into the factors that impact engagement and how educators can approach their work in ways that allow them to invest their time and energy into what lights them up. By shifting away from exhausting, one-size-fits-all instruction to more flexible, student-centered approaches, teachers can rediscover their passion, feel more connected to their students, and create learning experiences that inspire everyone in the classroom.
Blended Learning in Action
It’s impossible to meet the needs of diverse learners if you move lockstep through curriculum and learning activities as a whole class. A dynamic blend of active, engaged learning online and active, engaged learning offline can shift students to the center of learning. Explore how teachers can leverage blended learning models to give students more agency, differentiate consistently to meet student needs, and allow students more control over the pace of their learning.
Embracing the Reality of Diverse Classrooms: Designing for All Learners
Diversity in education isn’t a problem—it’s the reality. Every classroom has students with unique strengths, backgrounds, skills, and learning preferences. The challenge isn’t their diversity; it’s that most instructional models aren’t designed to flex and adapt to meet these needs. Educators deserve strategies that work with the reality of their classrooms, not against it. Let’s stop fighting the reality of diversity in education and start designing for it.
Thrive in Any Teaching and Learning Landscape
As educational landscapes evolve, educators need to embrace a mindset, skillset, and toolset that allows them to thrive in class, online, or a blend of the two! It’s time to design and facilitate learning experiences that free teachers from their role as the expert at the front of the room and place students at the center of learning. Teachers who universally design learning using blended learning models to remove barriers, give students agency, develop dynamic learning communities, and cultivate expert learners will thrive in any teaching and learning landscape.
Achieve Balance with Blended Learning
Lack of time and energy are barriers to innovation. Too many teachers are exhausted because they are doing the lion’s share of the work. To achieve balance, teachers must shift their mindset, develop their skill set, and build a useful toolset. Teachers who partner with students can share the responsibility of learning to create dynamic learning environments both online and offline.