2025 Registration Information
Full Conference
November 13 AND 14, 2025
with lunch + morning and afternoon refreshments + dinner at the Place-Based Celebration.
$440
One-Day Registration
November 13 OR 14, 2025
Includes lunch + morning and afternoon refreshments + the option to add a ticket for the Place-Based Celebration.
$240
Group Rate
November 13 AND 14, 2025
A discounted rate is available for groups of 3 or more.
$50 off/attendee by July 1
$25 off/attendee after July 1
DON’T MISS THESE SIGNATURE CONFERENCE EVENTS!
The Place-Based Celebration
6–9 pm Thursday, November 13 | $40
Included in full conference registration, or as an option to add on to one-day registrations. The Place-Based Celebration honors and celebrates the incredible impacts and stories of place-based education across the U.S. and beyond. This special culminating event of the conference will inspire attendees and illuminate the path forward in using the power of place to shape the future of education and communities. Festivities include a happy hour reception, formal dinner, awards ceremony, and special keynote artist performance by renowned singer-songwriter, May Erlewine!
Immersion Experiences
9 am–4 pm, Wednesday, November 12 | $30–$75
Available to add on to any conference registration, immersion experiences will kick off the conference on Wednesday, November 12th, with field-based professional learning adventures throughout Southeast Michigan! Experience the Detroit urban oasis of Belle Isle. Engage in community-led conversations about local issues and place-based responses. Embed yourself in nature at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum and/or the Woodlands at Bruin Lakes. Learn from Wylie Elementary students about the role of PBE in their lives. Learn with Detroit-based organizations about local issues and solution approaches. Visit the Immersion Experience page for details!
2023 keynote speaker Monique Gray Smith with 2023 PBE Conference Planning Team member Mara Spears.
As conference organizers, Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative prioritizes offering one of the most affordable national education conferences available. Our full registration fees reflect this priority and the true costs of organizing and hosting the conference. We are able to offer a limited number of partial scholarships to help offset the cost of attendance. These scholarships prioritize support for students, retirees, and others for whom the cost of conference registration is a barrier. Scholarship requests will be reviewed and awarded on a rolling basis. Awarded scholarships are only applicable to the 2-day full conference registration fee.
If you elect to submit a scholarship application, please do not register for the conference until you’ve received a decision regarding your scholarship application status.
Please send any questions to conference@greatlakesstewardship.org.
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Cancellation/Refund Policy
If you are unable to attend an event for any reason, you may arrange with the conference organizer to substitute someone else to attend in your place.
Full refunds are available until September 14, 2025.
Refunds will be reduced by the amount of any unrecoverable processing fees plus a $35 administrative fee.