Empowering Every Student to Achieve Their Full Potential

The Jacksonville Public Education Fund invites you to be a part of the fifth biennial EDTalks event, which brings education's thought leaders to Jacksonville to share innovative ideas, best practices, and approaches that are working around the country and around the world. Education leaders, supporters, and partners are inspired at EDTalks to take action and work together to move the needle on important issues facing our students. 

At the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, our initiatives don’t end when the event concludes. They evolve into sustained opportunities for impact. 

This year’s School Leadership Initiative (SLI) grew out of the momentum created by EdTalks 2023, where Dr. Shawn Ginwright challenged us to reimagine school culture through healing-centered engagement. That moment planted the seed, and this year’s SLI Community of Practice (CoP) nurtured it into meaningful and lasting growth.

Titoya Murphy was part of a team of teachers from Northwestern Legends Academy who used the Edelman Excellence in Teaching Fellowship to travel to Boston, Mass., to attend the Engineering is Elementary (EIE) professional development program at the Museum of Science. The team's goal was to acquire new engineering modules and insights that they would share with colleagues through direct implementation in their classrooms and collaborative discussions. She shares what she and her fellow teachers learned and how they are using it in their classrooms.