February 4, 2026
Registration & Continental Breakfast
- Start Right: Fuel Up with Coffee & Breakfast
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Community Building
- Performance: African Drum Interactive
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Moderator: Brandon Leake, Poet
- Performance: “Steps”
- Speaker: Babatunde Ilori, CEO of Parsec Education
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Keynote: AJ Crabill
Keynote Student Outcomes Don’t Change Until Adult Behaviors Change™
- Speaker: AJ Crabill, Author, Senior Coach at Effective School Boards, & Director of Governance at Council of the Great City Schools
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Coffee Break & Exhibition
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Breakout Sessions
Track A • School Board Going Deeper with this Year’s Keynote Speaker: Improving Student Outcomes and Creating the Conditions for Adult Behavior Change
- Facilitators: AJ Crabill & Greg Klein
- Location: Large Conference Breakout 1
Track B • Empowering Student Voice: Building Culturally Aware Campuses for 2026 and Beyond
- Facilitators: Dr. Angie Barfield
- Location: Game Room Breakout 2
Track C • Parsec Products & Services REAL Best Practices: Because the Word Survey Should Come with a Trigger Warning
- Facilitator: Jody Hooker-Silva & Toni Galvan
- Location: Small Conference Breakout 3
Keynote: Babatunde Ilori
Keynote Celebrate Partner Success
- Speaker: Babatunde Ilori, CEO of Parsec Education
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Lunch
- Performance: Dave Hamilton
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Keynote: Omar Dawood
Keynote The Ripple Effect: The Impact of Untreated Mental Health on School Performance, Educator Retention, and Our Communities
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Keynote: NSBMA Student Panel
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Spoken Word Performance
- Speaker: Brandon Leake, Poet
- Topic: “Academics”
- Location: West Building Main Hall
Breakout Sessions
Track A • School Board From Proficiency to Growth: Sanger Unified’s Data Journey
- Facilitator: Dr. Dennis Wiechmann, Tim Lopez, Thomas Soto, & Katie Gault
- Location: Large Conference Breakout 1
Track B • Student Voice Shared Table, Shared Power
- Facilitator: NSBMA
- Location: Game Room Breakout 2
Track C • Parsec Products & Services Data + Dialogue: Merging Quantitative Metrics with Qualitative Stories
- Facilitators: Dino Mangano & Patrick Swisher
- Location: Small Conference Breakout 3
Breakout Sessions
Track A • School Board Dashboards, Transparency, & Improvement Cycles Oh My!
- Facilitators: Dr. Sean Richey, Karen Ellington, & Kimberly Tumambing
- Location: Large Conference Breakout 1
Track B • Student Voice From Student to Student: Fostering Authentic Youth Engagement in Non-Traditional Educational Settings
- Facilitator: Genavieve Koenigshofer & Ananya Akkaraju
- Location: Game Room Breakout 2
Track C • Parsec Products & Services Parsec in Practice: Real Talk, Real Wins, Real Questions
- Facilitator: Margaret Ameel, PH.D, & Martha Moore
- Location: Small Conference Breakout 3
Cocktail & Awards Reception
- Performance: Brandon Leake, Poet – “Dear Daniel”
- Hosts: Eugene Park & Ryan Royer
- Performance: Dave Hamilton
- Location: West Building Main Hall