• Opening Keynote: Steve Pemberton: School Choice: practical tools, shared language, and guidance on charter & private schools, IDEA protections, non-public schools, and ADA obligations 

• Workforce Support & Burnout Prevention: strategies for supporting staff through shared trauma, chronic stress, and maintaining healthy professional boundaries 

• Early Childhood & IDEA: strengthening implementation and translating policy into practice across settings 

• Evaluation & Data Use: best practices for using evaluation strategically for learning and improvement, including working with qualitative and low-response data, and leveraging data systems effectively 

• Peer Learning & Collaboration: structured and informal opportunities for centers to share strategies and learn from one another 

• Funding & Sustainability: preparing for funding gaps, diversifying revenue streams, exploring collaborative opportunities, and identifying grant and foundation strategies 

• HR & Organizational Systems: practical approaches to staffing, retention, policies, and internal systems that support long-term sustainability