Is inclusive learning just about students with disabilities?

Inclusive learning supports all kinds of diversity—ability, language, culture, identity, and more. It’s about designing systems that work for everyone, a topic often explored in depth at an education conference.

Can I start making changes without a full school-wide shift?

Absolutely. Many inclusive practices can begin at the classroom level. A single teacher’s approach can reshape how students experience learning, as discussed in various education summits.

What does culturally relevant teaching look like day-to-day?

It can be as simple as referencing students’ communities in examples or adjusting texts and content to reflect multiple perspectives.

How do I help students feel they belong in school?

Relationship-building, inclusive language, restorative discipline practices, and affirming representation are all ways to create belonging in schools, a recurring theme at many education conferences.

Is there support for teachers learning these practices?

This theme highlights mentors, frameworks, and communities that support teachers in building and sustaining inclusive education classrooms, resources often shared through education summits.

Exploring Mental Health & Well-Being At Education 2.0 Conference

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Defining Mental Health & Well-Being

Mental health is no longer a side conversation in education. It's a critical pillar of effective teaching, learning, and development. Mental health education gives students the language, tools, and support to understand emotions, manage stress, and build resilience, both inside and outside the classroom.

Mental wellness education goes beyond crisis response. It includes proactive strategies that help students maintain well-being, cope with challenges, and thrive socially and academically. At its best, it also supports educators—whose own mental health is key to building safe and responsive classrooms.

This theme focuses on integrating emotional well-being into the core of learning—not as an add-on, but as essential to success, and will be a key focus at our global education conference.

Why Mental Health Can’t Wait

Students today face a complex mix of pressures: social media, academic competition, family stress, identity struggles, and more. Educators, too, are navigating burnout, growing expectations, and changing classroom dynamics.

In many schools, mental health remains under-addressed or siloed into counseling departments. But the truth is, learning doesn't happen when students feel unsafe, unseen, or overwhelmed.

Mental health education is the foundation for building emotional intelligence, creating inclusive environments, and improving long-term learning outcomes. When schools adopt mental wellness education, they don’t just reduce crises—they foster confidence, empathy, and community.

This theme explores how to make well-being part of an everyday education strategy.

What You’ll Discover In This Theme

Dive into how educators, counselors, administrators, and innovators are weaving mental wellness into the heart of education. Sessions will feature:

Teaching Mental Health In The Classroom
 Strategies for integrating mental health education into academic subjects and classroom conversations.
School-Wide Approaches To Well-Being
 How leadership and policy can embed mental wellness education across all levels of a school system.
Supporting Educator Mental Health
 Practical tools and system-level changes to address burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional load. 
Early Intervention & Peer Support Models
 Programs that help students identify issues early and support each other meaningfully.

Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices
 Understanding how trauma affects learning and how to create safe, healing-centered classrooms. 
Family Engagement In Mental Health
 Involving parents and caregivers in wellness strategies that support students beyond the school day.
The Role Of EdTech In Well-Being
 Evaluating tools designed to monitor, support, or improve student and staff mental health.

Each session of our education conference is built around action, offering frameworks, stories, and ideas that you can apply in your learning environment.

Tools And Resources To Explore Before The Sessions

Want to better understand the role of mental health in education? These curated resources offer a helpful head start before the sessions at our education innovation summit:

Books

This collection of insightful titles is ideal for anyone preparing to engage in meaningful conversations about inclusive learning at our education summit.

“The Whole-Brain Child” – Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
An accessible guide to how kids think, feel, and behave, blending neuroscience with strategies to build emotional regulation, empathy, and problem-solving skills.
“Permission To Feel” – Marc Brackett
Makes a strong case for emotional intelligence in schools and workplaces, introducing the RULER framework to help people recognize, understand, and regulate emotions.
“Fostering Resilient Learners” – Kristin Souers and Pete Hall
Outlines trauma-informed practices that create safe, connected classrooms, with strategies to support students facing adversity while protecting educator well-being.

Watch & Listen

Get conference-ready with these talks, podcasts, and films that echo the themes of our education innovation summit. Each selection offers valuable perspectives on mental health, mindfulness, and equity, helping you arrive informed, inspired, and ready to engage in deeper discussions.

TED Talk: There’s No Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health
Sangu Delle tackles the stigma around mental health and shares personal insights on why open, supportive conversations matter—an important perspective for anyone joining our discussions on well-being in education.
Podcast: The MindShift Podcast
KQED’s MindShift Podcast dives into how schools approach emotional wellness and equity. Listening before the conference will give you practical context for sessions on resilience, inclusion, and student support.
Short Film: “Room To Breathe”
This documentary follows the impact of a mindfulness program in a San Francisco middle school, offering real-life examples you can reference when exploring mindfulness in education during the summit.

Try

Familiarize yourself with these tools ahead of our education summit to better understand how emotional wellness and mindfulness practices can be integrated into daily school life. They offer practical ways to support both student and educator well-being.

Mood Meter (by Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
An app and framework that helps students and educators identify, label, and understand their emotions—building emotional vocabulary and self-awareness to improve communication and decision-making.
Headspace For Educators
Free access to Headspace’s guided meditations, breathing exercises, and mindfulness activities—specifically curated for educators to use personally or in the classroom.
Calm Classroom Or Inner Explorer
Calm Classroom offers simple, three-minute mindfulness sessions to help schools create a daily routine for mental wellness. Inner Explorer provides audio-guided mindfulness programs for students, teachers, and families to practice together.

Exploring these tools can help you connect more deeply with the ideas and conversations at the conference.

Common Questions About Mental Health & Well-Being

Q1. How can I teach mental health without being a counselor?

Q2. Is there a difference between mental health education and wellness programs?

Q3. How can I support students without ignoring my own mental load?

Q4. Can these approaches work in high-pressure academic environments?

Q5. Are there low-cost ways to implement wellness programs?

Share Your Experience With Us

Are you driving change in mental wellness or testing new models of mental health education? We’re inviting educators and leaders to share real-world strategies.

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