Save the Date!

Iditarod Education Department Winter Educators’ Conference

Lakefront Hotel

Anchorage, Alaska

February 25th thru 28th, 2025

As teachers, you know the impact of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race - on teaching, on motivating, on providing authentic instruction, on inspiring, on creating excitement for learning.  Here is what you have been waiting for!  The annual Iditarod Educators’ Conference will showcase the resources the Iditarod Education department has for educators everywhere.

Your $600 conference registration includes:

• Volunteer room rates at the Lakefront Hotel which is Iditarod Headquarters during race time-be right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of race week!
• Tuesday and Thursday fully-packed days of sessions on using the Iditarod in your classroom presented by Iditarod Teachers on the TrailTM.  Presenters this year will include: former Iditarod Photographer, Jeff Schultz, former Iditarod Artist and musher Jon Van Zyle, Barbara Redington - Jr. Iditarod Board Member, Emily Robinson - 3x Junior Iditarod Champion, former return dog coordinator - Liz Millman
• Tuesday lunch - mini “book fair”.  Book fair will have books from Jeff Schultz, Jon Van Zyle and others.
• Field Trip Day: Ride a chartered bus to Iditarod headquarters to watch pre-race vet checks first hand, have lunch, and then visit Matthew Failor's Alaskan Husky Adventures kennel to talk about the race, see their gear and meet the dogs.
• Your ticket to the Thursday evening Musher Meet and Greet before the banquet where you can talk with and get pictures and autographs of the 2024 mushers. Then enjoy the Musher Drawing Banquet and all of its presentations.
• Friday morning workshop session, collaboration and writing lessons you can use the day you get back to school! 
• We are planning an informal get together Monday evening, February 24, 2025, (not included in nor required for  the conference.)

Rich in resources, professional development unique to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, hands-on experiential learning you can immediately take back to your classroom.

Email questions to Jim Deprez, Co-Director of Education, at jim.deprez@iditarod.com.