Book Casey Cuny for Your Next Event
Keynotes, workshops, and professional learning experiences that educators can use the next day.
Casey Cuny is a 2024 California Teacher of the Year, classroom educator, instructional coach, professor of education, and nationally recognized voice on AI, rigor, relationships, and the future of learning.
Casey helps educators move past the noise and into practical, human-centered teaching: how to use AI wisely, build classrooms where students think deeply, and design learning experiences rooted in belonging, purpose, and rigor.
Keynotes and PD for schools, districts, conferences, universities, and education organizations
Practical AI-in-education training grounded in strong pedagogy
Relationship-driven rigor, SEL, student motivation, and teacher leadership
Customized sessions for teachers, leaders, parents, and education communities
Trusted by Educators, Schools, and Organizations Across California and Beyond
California Department of Education · California PTA · Los Angeles County Office of Education · California Teachers Association · OpenAI Forum · OpenAI Academy · ASU+GSV Summit · Smithsonian National Education Summit · National University · CBS · NBC Bay Area · KTLA · ASCD
A Classroom Teacher Speaking from the Work, Not Around It
Casey’s message resonates because he is still close to the daily reality of teaching. He brings the perspective of an award-winning classroom educator, department chair, instructional coach, professor of education, and AI-in-education practitioner.
His sessions are built for educators who want more than inspiration. They want language, tools, examples, and classroom-ready strategies they can take back to their students, schools, and teams.
Casey’s work centers on one belief: technology, SEL, critical thinking, and academic rigor are not separate conversations. The best learning happens when students feel seen, challenged, supported, and trusted to think deeply.
Choose the Experience That Fits Your Event
Keynotes
High-energy, story-driven, practical talks for conferences, district launches, back-to-school events, leadership summits, and education convenings.
Best for: opening keynotes, closing keynotes, conference themes, district-wide inspiration
Typical length: 45–75 minutes | Includes: pre-event planning call, customization to your audience, practical takeaways, and optional audience Q&A
Professional Development Workshops
Interactive sessions designed to help educators apply the ideas immediately. Workshops can include model prompts, classroom scenarios, planning templates, discussion protocols, and guided implementation time.
Best for: teacher PD days, department teams, AI readiness, instructional coaching, curriculum work
Typical length: 90 minutes, half day, or full day | Includes: hands-on practice, resources, examples, and implementation planning
Leadership Sessions
Focused sessions for administrators, instructional coaches, department chairs, teacher leaders, and district teams navigating change.
Best for: leadership retreats, AI implementation planning, instructional vision, culture-building
Typical length: 60–180 minutes | Includes: discussion facilitation, strategic framing, and practical next steps
Parent and Community Seminars
Clear, grounded sessions that help families understand AI, learning, integrity, motivation, and the skills students need now.
Best for: parent nights, school-community events, library events, district forums
Typical length: 60–90 minutes with Q&A | Includes: practical examples, family-facing language, and responsible-use guidance
Virtual Sessions
Engaging online keynotes and workshops for schools, districts, higher education programs, and national organizations.
Best for: remote PD, webinar series, leadership cohorts, parent communities
Typical length: 45–120 minutes | Includes: customized slides, interactive Q&A, and optional resource handout
Signature Keynotes and Workshops
1. Good Teaching Is Still Good Teaching: AI Changes the Tools, Not the Mission
AI is reshaping how students write, research, study, and create. But the center of great teaching has not changed: relationships, inquiry, feedback, purpose, and rigor still matter most. Casey helps educators move past panic and into practice.
Audience takeaways: Understand how AI can amplify strong teaching • Use AI as a thought partner for planning and feedback • Help students use AI as a study partner, not a shortcut • Build guardrails for responsible, ethical, and rigorous AI use • Reframe “cheating” conversations around thinking, process, and evidence of learning
2. AI-Ready Students: Teaching Wisdom, Judgment, and Deeper Thinking
The question is no longer whether students will use AI. The question is whether they will learn to use it wisely. This session gives teachers, leaders, and families a practical framework for helping students build the human skills that matter most in an AI world.
Audience takeaways: Learn what responsible AI use looks like for students • Build assignments that require thinking, not just completion • Teach students how to prompt, question, revise, and reflect • Connect AI use to retrieval practice and deeper learning • Develop shared language for parents, teachers, and students
3. Rigor Through Relationships
Students rise to higher expectations when they believe the adults in the room know them, see them, and will not let them disappear. This keynote explores how relationships, belonging, and academic challenge work together.
Audience takeaways: See why rigor and relationships are partners, not opposites • Build classroom routines that strengthen trust and accountability • Use feedback and questioning to increase student ownership • Create learning conditions where students persist through challenge • Leave with practical moves for raising expectations without losing connection
4. SEL as a Teaching Approach, Not an Extra Program
SEL is often treated as something added to instruction. Casey reframes it as part of how powerful instruction works. This session shows how social, emotional, and academic intelligences can work together to improve student engagement, classroom culture, and academic growth.
Audience takeaways: Integrate SEL into daily teaching moves • Build belonging without lowering academic expectations • Use reflection, discussion, and feedback to strengthen student identity • Support motivation through purpose and agency • Connect emotional safety to academic risk-taking
5. Socratic Seminars, Critical Thinking, and the Future of Learning
In an age when answers are instantly available, students need better questions. This workshop helps educators design discussions that scaffold critical thinking, evidence, listening, and student voice.
Audience takeaways: Design discussion questions that invite deep thinking • Scaffold student participation and evidence use • Help students listen, build on ideas, and revise their thinking • Connect discussion to writing, reflection, and assessment • Use seminars to build intellectual confidence and classroom community
6. Teacher Leadership: Protecting Passion While Building Better Schools
Schools improve when teachers are trusted as thinkers, designers, and leaders. This keynote helps educators and administrators think about how to build cultures where teacher passion is not exploited, but supported, focused, and multiplied.
Audience takeaways: Understand what teacher leadership looks like beyond titles • Build systems that protect energy and purpose • Create space for teacher voice in instructional change • Strengthen collaboration without adding unnecessary burden • Reconnect professional learning to the real work of classrooms
What You Can Expect When You Book Casey
Every engagement is shaped around your audience, goals, and event context.
Most engagements include:
A pre-event planning call
Customization to your theme, audience, and goals
A keynote or workshop designed for practical use, not generic inspiration
Concrete strategies educators can apply immediately
Optional Q&A or facilitated discussion
Slide deck or participant resources when appropriate
Clear communication about AV, timing, logistics, and travel needs
Optional add-ons: Breakout workshop after keynote • Leadership team session • Parent/community evening seminar • Follow-up virtual coaching session • AI implementation planning session • Custom resource packet for participants
Fees and Availability
Speaking and training fees vary based on format, location, date, audience size, preparation needs, and travel. Most engagements fall within a range based on format, travel, and customization. Typical fee structure is a set “daily rate”. This daily rate books Casey for the entire day, and all travel and lodging are included in this daily rate. If multiple days are required due to travel, the daily rate does not change and is only billed for the day(s) of actual keynotes and trainings. Share your event details below, including your estimated budget, and Casey will respond with availability and the best-fit option for your goals. All rates are always negotiable and budgetary concerns are always taken into account.
Virtual keynote via Zoom or Virtual Professional Development session to live, in person audience: $1500
In-person keynote: contact for pricing
Keynote + breakout workshop: contact for pricing
Half-day or full-day professional development: contact for pricing
Custom multi-session consulting / AI implementation support: quoted after discovery call
How Booking Works
1. Share Your Event Details
Use the form below to tell Casey about your audience, goals, date, location, format, and budget range.
2. Confirm Fit and Availability
If the date and event are a strong fit, Casey will follow up to clarify the audience, desired outcomes, and best session format.
3. Receive a Proposal
You will receive a clear proposal outlining the session, fee, travel expectations, deliverables, and next steps.
4. Plan the Experience
Before the event, Casey meets with your team to customize the keynote or workshop to your audience and goals.
5. Bring the Message to Life
Casey delivers a practical, engaging, educator-centered experience designed to inspire action and support real implementation.
Request Availability
Tell me a little about your event, and I’ll follow up with availability, fit, and next steps. Your information will only be used to respond to this booking inquiry.
Request Availability
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Email: cacuny@gmail.com
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Casey customize each keynote?
Yes. Each session is shaped around the audience, event theme, and goals. Casey’s work is practical and story-driven, but never canned.
Does Casey offer virtual sessions?
Yes. Casey offers virtual keynotes, webinars, professional development sessions, parent seminars, and leadership conversations. These can be virtual for both Casey and the participants, or Casey has run very successful virtual presentations to a live, in person audience as well. With a microphone in the room signed into the Zoom, live Q&A can be very engaging in the virtual space.
Can Casey do a keynote and a workshop on the same day?
Yes. A common format is a keynote followed by several breakout workshops to more focused grade level or subject level teams where educators apply the ideas to their own classrooms, teams, or AI implementation plans.
Does Casey speak to parent audiences?
Yes. Parent/community sessions can focus on AI-ready students, responsible AI use, deeper learning, academic integrity, motivation, and how families can support students in a changing world.
How far in advance should we inquire?
As early as possible, especially for conference keynotes, district PD days, and back-to-school events. If your date is soon, still reach out—availability depends on the calendar and format.
Can the session be aligned to our district goals?
Yes. Casey can align the session to district initiatives, conference themes, instructional priorities, AI policies, leadership goals, or parent/community needs.
Ready to Bring Casey to Your School, District, or Conference?
Share your event details above, and Casey will follow up with availability, fit, and the best session option for your audience.
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