ELEVATE: Back to the Schoolhouse - Nashville 2026

Elevate Your Teaching. Deepen Your Impact.

This special 2-day ELEVATE experience is designed exclusively for early childhood and elementary educators who want focused, meaningful professional development in a more intimate setting.

Hosted in a historic Nashville Area schoolhouse, in historic Nolensville, TN this gathering intentionally limits its size to create space for deeper learning, connection, and collaboration.

Over two days, you’ll experience 8 powerful sessions led by Mr. Greg and Holly Ehle —both actively serving in schools and bringing research-based, practical strategies you can implement immediately.

Between sessions, you’ll enjoy built-in breaks and meet-and-greet opportunities designed for conversation, networking, and real collaboration.

This is not a massive conference. It’s an intentional experience.

You’ll leave recharged, inspired, and equipped with strategies you can use right away.

👉 Reserve your seat today and join us for this special ELEVATE gathering.

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🛌 Hotel Accommodations

Elevate: Back to the Schoolhouse is hosted in Nolensville, TN. While there are no hotels directly adjacent to the historic schoolhouse venue, we’ve curated reliable and comfortable hotel options in the Brentwood / Cool Springs area — approximately 15–25 minutes away. We recommend booking early as summer travel in the Nashville area fills quickly.

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Info: Before Wi-Fi, Smartboards, and one-to-one devices, learning was hands-on, oral, and deeply human. In this session, we’ll explore the neuroscience behind reading development and why the brain thrives on interaction, explicit instruction, and active engagement—not passive slide decks. Walk away with brain-based strategies that reduce cognitive overload, increase retention, and put students—not screens—at the center of literacy instruction.

Info: Many old school classrooms understood something powerful: kids learn best when they move, collaborate, build, and create. In this session, you’ll discover how to design high-engagement units and classroom transformations that are developmentally appropriate, socially rich, and academically rigorous. Leave with practical frameworks for creating immersive learning experiences that strengthen both content mastery and student connection.

Info: Struggling with classroom management? Explore research-based, classroom proven strategies, ideas, and tips for your classroom. Discover the transformative impact of relationships, consistency, and clear expectations. Implement easy-to-follow tips and tricks to streamline your classroom dynamics, creating a smoothly operating class—no behavior programs, rewards, or incentives required!

Info: We ask kids to read books, write sentences, and solve problems… before we’ve actually built the skills that make those things possible.
In this session, I’ll walk you through  our TKS BOOTCAMP— the routines, pacing, and lesson structure we use to systematically build phonics and number sense so learning becomes easier instead of harder. This isn’t centers, worksheets, or guessing strategies. It’s explicit teaching, repetition with purpose, and engagement that keeps kids successful.
You’ll see how phonics and math fluency grow together, how we keep every student participating, and how short, focused daily practice leads to huge growth.
You’ll leave understanding what to teach, how to teach it, and why it works — plus how to implement it immediately without overhauling your entire day.

Info: The first weeks of school decide how the entire year is going to feel… and most of us were never actually taught what to do during it. We decorate, we panic-plan, we jump into curriculum — and then spend October trying to fix it.
In this session, I’ll walk you step-by-step through exactly what I do from the moment students enter the room through those first few weeks of school.  We’ll cover classroom setup, organization, routines, procedures, lessons, and activities that teach kids how school works before we ever worry about standards and worksheets.
You’ll leave with a realistic, day-by-day plan that builds independence, prevents behavior problems, and creates a calm, happy classroom — without staying up all night or making 400 labels.

Info: Mr. Greg will end our conference with an upbeat and inspiring keynote.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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