Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals Now Open!
On behalf of AASA, The School Superintendents Association, thank you for taking the time to consider submitting a proposal for the 2025 National Conference on Education, March 6-8 in New Orleans, LA.
Each year, AASA searches for the “best of the best” presenters to engage attendees in conversations around cutting edge trends, issues and solutions in education.
Participation as a presenter will help attendees increase their leadership skills and professional competence, provide for an exchange of ideas and solutions and help attendees address the controversial issues facing today’s educators. In doing so, AASA, along with those selected presenters, will create a community of learning that will help America’s public school education leaders improve the quality of education for all children.
Submissions are due by 11:59 pm ET on May 31, 2024.
Submission Information & Rules
- The submissions collected from this Call for Proposals will be considered for breakout sessions only.
- Breakout sessions take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and are 60 minutes in length.
- Presenters must be available on any day for which AASA assigns your session.
- Proposal submission does not guarantee participation in the National Conference on Education.
- The National Conference on Education is a noncommercial forum. Under no circumstances may a breakout session be used as a place for direct promotion of a presenter’s product, service or monetary self-interest. Sales pitches disguised as presentations will not be considered.
- All presenters must pay conference registration fees and have a registration badge. Please explain this policy to your co-presenters. There are no presenter registration discounts available. We cannot pay an honorarium or expenses for presenting breakout sessions at the Annual Conference, but hope that the intangible benefits of being a part of our educational programming make the effort worthwhile for presenters.
- Persons presenting at the conference are expected to use material and language that does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, physical ability, and/or sexual orientation.
- AASA does not pay ANY honoraria, speaker fees, or travel expenses to breakout session speakers.
- The Main Presenter is responsible for managing the submission process, as well as providing all required assets should the submission be selected.
- Main presenters may submit a maximum of 3 sessions. If you need to make an adjustment, you can withdraw an active submission and you’ll then be able to add another. All adjustments must be made before the May 31 submission deadline.
- All National Conference on Education information and correspondence will be sent via email.
- Preference will be given to the sessions that follow the NCE Focus Zones as outlined below.
- Each proposal must have an active superintendent and district school administrator as part of the panel of presenters. We are looking this year for proposals that include teams of school district personnel as part of the presentation panel.
- Breakout rooms will be equipped with an LCD projector, screen, podium mic, laptop & sound patch and head table for three. Any other audiovisual equipment (i.e. flipcharts, etc.) must be requested by January 10, 2025.
- Dedicated internet is NOT provided in breakout rooms.
- Presenters agree to abide by the terms of the copyright release in order to present at the National Conference on Education.
- AASA may record audio and/or video presentations and make them available to members and other professional interested in the topic.
- Presenters agree to permit AASA to provide their contact information to attendees upon request.
- Presenters permit AASA to record their session for NCE attendees.
- Presenters understand that AASA does not provide hardcopy handouts to attendees.
- If your proposal is selected, AASA reserves the right to revise presentation titles, reassign the selected Focus Zone, and/or edit the program summary for promotional and program materials.
- AASA reserves the right to cancel a session based on noncompliance at any point. This includes, but is not limited to failure to fully register, failure to return required documents, presenter changes, etc.
- AASA may consider a submitted proposal for other meetings and/or conferences.
March 20, 2024: 9am ET
Call for Proposals Opens
May 31, 2024: 11:59 pm ET
Call for Proposals Closes
August 1, 2024
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection
August 16, 2024
Deadline for accepted presenters to return completed/ signed presenter agreement
January 10, 2025
Deadline for additional audiovisual requests
January 17, 2025
Deadline for presenters to submit electronic handouts to the mobile app
Focus Zones
Presentations should feature at least one superintendent/school district leader and preferably team members from one or more school district(s)
Topics Include:
- Wellness, Self-care and Self-renewal
- Developing a System Wide Mental Health Program
- Assessing Effectiveness of Mental Health Programs
- Leading for Wellness and Health of Students
- Care of Staff Wellness and Growth
- Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, Mental Well-Being
- Leading to Accelerate Social, Emotional, Cognitive Growth
- Building Competent Girls, Confident Women
Presentations should feature at least one superintendent/school district leader and preferably team members from one or more school district(s)
Topics Include:
- Virtual Learning
- Tech-Enabled Learning
- Personalized Learning and Leading
- STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Science
- Building a Diverse Talent Pipeline
- Using a Variety of Accountability Indicators to Show Growth Over Time
- Assessing Effectiveness and Success of Programs and Initiatives
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Learning, Teaching, Leading
- Student Agency: Education
Presentations should feature at least one superintendent/school district leader and preferably team members from one or more school district(s)
Topics Include:
- Student Engagement and Agency
- Promoting Positive and Inclusive School and District School Environments
- School Student Discipline and Behavior Expectations
- Community Engagement/Family Engagement and Alignment
- Creating Conditions that Support Safe, Engaging, and Challenging Learning
Presentations should feature at least one superintendent/school district leader and preferably team members from one or more school district(s)
Topics Include:
- School Safety
- School Law Issues
- Understanding School Funding/AARA Regulations
- Managing Challenging Times
Presentations should feature at least one superintendent/school district leader and preferably team members from one or more school district(s)
Topics Include:
- Content Creation and Personalization
- Ethical/Bias/Discrimination Considerations
- Regulation Guidelines
- Staff and Students’ Acclimation and Benefit (Adaptive Learning, Automated Grading and Feedback, Personalized Tutoring, Collaborative Creation of Content)
- District Creative Storytelling/Branding
- Language Translation and Learning
- Building Prompt Engineering into Classrooms
Presentations should feature at least one superintendent/school district leader and preferably team members from one or more school district(s)
Topics Include:
- Factors Influencing Participation of Underrepresented Students in STEM
- Promoting Persistence and Success of Underrepresented Students
- Active Flipped Learning (AFL) for Underrepresented Students
- Trauma-Informed Teaching
- Collaboration with Families and Communities
- Building Prompt Engineering into Learning
Questions?
Contact aasance@aasa.org
Key Dates & Deadlines
March 20, 2024: 9am ET
Call for Proposals Opens
May 31, 2024: 11:59 pm ET
Call for Proposals Closes
August 1, 2024
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection
August 16, 2024
Deadline for accepted presenters to return completed/ signed presenter agreement
January 10, 2025
Deadline for additional audiovisual requests
January 17, 2025
Deadline for presenters to submit electronic handouts to the mobile app