
L+D Caravan
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The L+D Caravan is a mobile, hyper-local professional development experience that brings L+D’s signature mix of bold ideas, human-centered design, and optimistic futurism directly to your city. Each Caravan is hosted by a local school, bringing together nearby educators and leaders to practice, prototype, reflect, and reimagine the work of education.
The Program
L+D Caravan is a reflective and thought provoking experience. You’ll be introduced to L+D’s core ideas, strategies, and tools - designed for reflection, building community, and meaningful change in your school. With flexible formats ranging from 1 to 4 days, and a rotating set of guest facilitators and program themes, no destinations are exactly alike. Each one is rooted in local needs and designed to leave you energized, equipped, and connected. This isn’t your typical PD. It’s a pop-up learning experience that meets you where you are and helps you go further.
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Pillar 1: Student Life & Well-being
Discipline + Well-being
Reimagine school discipline and student support systems through a human-centered lens. Learn how to build cultures of care and capability that prioritize relationships, healing, and growth over compliance and control. This space is for Deans, Assistant Principals, Counselors, and anyone who works in the realm of student life, well-being and discipline -
Pillar 2: Educators of Color
Leadership Diaspora + Storytelling
This space is for us. Through storytelling, reflection, and collective dreaming, leaders of color will deepen their visionary capacity and build momentum toward liberatory leadership. A powerful container for identity, voice, and future-shaping -
Pillar 3: Leadership Presence + Feedback
Habits and Mindsets for New + Emerging Leaders
Grow your leadership presence and skillfully navigate the complexities of giving and receiving feedback. Learn to hold space, manage up and down, and transform tension into trust. For middle level leaders looking to explore their leadership skills, managing up and down, and practice giving/receiving critical conversations. -
Pillar 4: Futurist Thinking+ AI + Human Centered Design
Description See Beyond the Horizon
Challenge assumptions. Stretch your imagination. Learn how to guide your community through uncertainty with clarity, creativity, and curiosity. A primer on strategic foresight, systems thinking, and radical possibility. What does it mean to think, know, and learn in the Age of AI? Explore how human-centered design can guide schools in navigating new landscapes of knowledge, technology, and learning.goes here
Why Join the Caravan?
L+D Caravan is your invitation to test-drive some of L+D’s transformational approach without the need to travel across the country. Whether you're trying to reenergize your school’s discipline model, build your leadership skills, or prepare for an AI-shaped future, Caravan provides a possibility for you to get away and deepen your learning - all while staying close to home.
Participants will:
Practice human-centered design tools and leadership habits
Develop insights on complex challenges in school culture and learning
Grow their professional network through collaboration and shared experience
Receive an L+D resource pack customized to your pillar focus
Get access to exclusive follow-up opportunities, including discounts to our flagship experiences (Leadership Lab, Wonder Women, Santa Fe Retreat, etc.)
Who Should Attend?
This experience is designed for:
Middle level leaders
Deans, directors, counselors, and instructional coaches
Teacher-leaders and aspiring leaders
You can come solo or bring a team. Schools that send teams of 3+ will work together across the Caravan experience and leave with shared knowledge and energy for the road ahead.
The Details
Dates + Cities:
We’re hitting the road! Four stops in 2025-2026.
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Pricing:
We’ve intentionally priced the Caravan for accessibility and collaboration.
30 participants max.
$449 - 1 person, 1 day
$1,050 (399 per person) - 3 people, 1 day
$1,800 (349 per person) - 3 people, 2 days
$2,700 (349 per person) - 3 people, 3 days
$3,600 (349 per person) - 3 people, 4 days
Includes:
All materials + printed resources
Light breakfast, full lunch, and quality snacks
Curated L+D swag
Access to follow-up support and exclusive discounts
Does not include:
Travel or lodging. We encourage participants to commute locally or carpool with colleagues.
Join the Movement
The L+D Caravan is where big ideas meet bold action.
It’s not a conference. It’s not a lecture.
It’s a traveling spark of what school could be.
Are you ready to ride with us?