The SCA Educator Summit emblem.

The Specialty Espresso Affiliation (SCA) is reprising its Educator Summit program for 2024, providing 5 full-day conferences geared in direction of espresso educators in cities throughout the globe.

The primary two of the 5 conferences can be in the US, together with an Oct. 1 summit on the Lavazza Coaching Middle in Philadelphia and an Oct. 12 summit on the Katz Espresso headquarters in Houston.

Three extra summits will happen in South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan in December. The group held the inaugural summits final 12 months in South Korea and Italy.

The SCA, which is the world’s largest espresso commerce group, has not but opened registration for the U.S. occasions, nor has it introduced prices to take part. In an announcement yesterday, the group stated there can be early-bird reductions and mixture reductions as soon as gross sales launch.

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The Educators Summit ties into the trade group’s two largest sources of income, in-person occasions and schooling programming.

“Educators are a vitally essential a part of the specialty espresso neighborhood imparting information throughout the whole espresso worth chain,” the SCA stated yesterday. “In case you are a espresso educator or aspiring to be one, you’ll not need to miss this chance to study and join.”

The SCA recognized key focus areas for the 2024 sequence, together with enhancing espresso schooling total, bettering educating methods and understanding the group’s new espresso worth evaluation (CVA). Particular schooling periods on the U.S. occasion will embrace:

• Making Water Chemistry Accessible
• Introducing Affective Assessments to Learners
• Educating an Correct Historical past of Espresso
• Getting in Concord with Your Visible Aids
• Designing Casual Assessments
• Espresso and Networking

Registration info will be introduced right here.

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