The 2026 theme is Revolutionary Educators: A Celebration of Change Makers and Schoolhouse Troublemakers.

• As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the formal beginning of the American Experiment, we turn our attention to the roles that educators have played in significant changes and revolutions at the local, regional, and national levels. Education itself becomes a revolutionary question: schools have long been sites of empowerment and challenge in addition to opposition and oppression, for both teachers and students. Stories of how individuals have navigated, resisted, enrichened, and even reformed educational environments are more timely now than ever.

• While work around the American Revolution is certainly welcome, this theme extends far past the national boundaries of the U.S.A.

  • What makes an educator or an educational approach “revolutionary” in that specific time and place?

  • How does education inform the stories of individual revolutionaries in your work—and how has education itself become a tool for change or resistance in specific historical moments?

• We are particularly interested in highlighting historical examples of educational resistance, courage, risk, and change. We encourage you to consider how your life writing work could challenge, expand, and deepen our scholarly understandings of these important themes.

All conference events and meetings will take place at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown in Oklahoma City, OK.

Reservation Information:

The conference rate at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown is $159/night.

Reservations for our 2026 conference are under the S.O.P.H.E. conference name: SOPHE 25 Annual Meeting.

Booking information will be available Summer 2026.

The 2026 conference will be held jointly with the Society for the Philosophy and History of Education (SOPHE) and Organization of Educational Historians (OEH).

For more on our partners and to submit a proposal for their conferences, please see their respective websites:

SOPHE: https://sopheconference.com/

OEH: https://www.eduhistorians.org/