Presenters and Session Description
Together Forward: Becoming the Lighthouse Where Pathways Meet and Possibilities Rise
The Evolving Role of PTIs and CPRCs in a school Choice Landscape
Part 1: Translating Content Into Experience Centered Practice
Part 2: Protecting What’s Important
The Cost of Caring: Who’s Caring for you?
Same Office, Different Operating Systems; Navigating the Modern Workplace
Part 1 – From Data to Decisions: Helping Parent Centers Use Information for Strategic Impact
Part 2: AI for Parent Centers: Working Smarter, Not Harder
From Data to Decisions: Helping Parent Centers Use Information for Strategic Impact
Using CPIR Products to Support Parent Centers: An Onboarding Workshop
Using CPIR Products to Support Parent Centers: An Onboarding Workshop
What’s Actually Happening in Nonprofit Organizations Right Now – Workforce Trends, HR Vulnerabilities, and What Leaders Can Do About Them
Illuminating the Way: Position Your Center for Funding Success
Facilitated Table Topic Discussions – Strategy Lab – Three Things to Implement, and Three Strengths to Share
Forward, No Matter What: The Leader You Already Are
Featured Topics will include:
• 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
