📺 Ditch Summit Day 8: Student engagement ideas

New session with A.J. Juliani -- and all videos are now available!

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Matt Miller
December 24, 2025

 

It’s Day 8 of the Ditch Summit! (View all previous summit emails here.)

So … we finally made it. As of today, all new Ditch Summit sessions are available!

You can choose from 8 new featured speaker sessions, 6 new spotlight sponsor sessions, and nearly 100 previous Ditch Summit sessions. (See the whole list at the bottom of this email.)

What happens next? Well, it’s time to take a break from Ditch Summit emails. (You’ve been receiving them almost every day for eight days! And, to be honest, I need a break from writing them!)

  • Starting Monday, I’ll email you every few days with suggestions of videos to watch and summit reminders.

  • The summit ends on Fri., Jan. 11, when all summit resources (videos, certificates, etc.) will become unavailable.

♻️ Day 7 recap

In their session, Tony Vincent and Greg Bagby showed us how they’re using AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Playlab to create educational apps and games — without needing any coding expertise. It’s called “vibe coding” and anyone can do it. Now, all you have to do is imagine what an app or game would look like and you can ask an AI model to create it for you.

Yesterday’s new session with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital shared how students in schools across the United States are putting on fundraisers like Math-a-Thon and the EPIC STEM Challenge. They raise money to support the hospital and children with childhood cancer. But it also helps them strengthen their academic skills.

See every Ditch Summit that’s available on our Video Library page here.

In this email:

  • 🤔 What to do during the Ditch Summit: Share on social media

  • 📺 Featured Speaker: Student engagement with A.J. Juliani

  • 🎉 All Ditch Summit videos are now available!

  • ❤️ Know someone who would love the Ditch Summit?

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📢 New speaker days: All new presentations now available!

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🗓 Ditch Summit: 8 days down, 19 days to go
The Ditch Summit closes on Jan. 11, 2026. After that, sessions + resources are unavailable until next year’s summit.

📺 FEATURED SPEAKER 📺

27 Practical Principles to Engage Students in Class with A.J. Juliani

It seems like it’s harder than ever to engage students in learning … to capture their attention and inspire them to keep learning.

Thankfully, we have some ideas and suggestions from leaders and achievers throughout history that can guide us.

Quoting from his new book, The 27 Principles of Engagement, A.J. Juliani shares stories of folks like Serena Williams, Pat Summit, Benjamin Franklin, and others that can guide our work in the classroom.

📺 VIDEO LIBRARY 📺

All Ditch Summit videos are now available!

Now that our final video presentation has been released, you have a lot of choices to watch in the Ditch Summit!

You can watch any of this year’s EIGHT Featured Speakers:

You can watch any of this year’s SIX Spotlight Sponsors:

And you can watch any session from a previous Ditch Summit in the Video Library.

Enjoy the summit! Watch videos. Download notes. Generate PD certificates. But remember … it all closes on Jan. 11, 2026. After that, all content becomes unavailable until next year’s summit.

❤️ Know someone who would love the Ditch Summit?

Then let’s spread the Ditch Summit love and help them get involved!

Enjoy today’s sessions — and any of our previous Ditch Summit sessions. I’ll see you in your inbox tomorrow with two more great new sessions!