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Why Go?
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Professional Development
Advance your skills as a professional in your field. Learn how to apply real-world knowledge to your unique context by participating in our sessions and workshops. Be empowered to lead, filled with knowledge and resources.
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Speaker Expertise
Learn from experienced authorizers and experts in the field. Dialogue with peers who have experienced success and know how to improve public education. Explore top authorizing and national education issues in a variety of session formats, from workshops to insight talks to Pecha Kucha.
3
Networking
Enjoy opportunities to learn from and connect with peers from across the country. Return home with new and strengthened relationships with other professionals. Further your work and advance your career.
4
Perks and Fun
Indulge in delicious food and drinks at our receptions. Explore local sights and flavors through walking tours, school visits, and cultural events. Leave with new friends, great connections, and renewed energy.
Our Rates
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* Organization rates include access for all employees planning to attend.
Keynote
Speakers
Stay tuned for more information about 2022 NACSACon sessions and keynote speakers. Here are some of our past keynote speakers.


Lakisha Young
Lakisha Young is the Co-Founder & CEO of The Oakland REACH, a parent-run organization with the mission to “make the powerless parent powerful.” The Oakland REACH has conducted over 5,000 1:1s with parents in Oakland’s most underserved communities and trained 450 families in their fellowship program.
Dr. Charles Cole, III
Dr. Charles Cole, III is an educator focused on the advancement of youth of color, but more specifically Black males. This passion comes from his experiences growing up without proper support, including being homeless and attending more than ten elementary schools across the country while his parents battled addiction and incarceration. Throughout that experience, no adult, no group, no organization ever asked him how he was achieving success nor how he was surviving. Schools were not a place where students in similar predicaments were learning. This experience helped lead to the publication of his first book, Beyond Grit and Resilience.
Sharif El-Mekki
Sharif El-Mekki is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development. The Center exists to ensure there will be equity in the recruiting, training, hiring, and retention of quality educators that reflect the cultural backgrounds and share common socio-political interests of the students they serve. The Center is developing a nationally relevant model to measurably increase teacher diversity and support Black educators through four pillars: Professional Learning, Pipeline, Policies, and Pedagogy.
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