2020 NACSA Virtual Leadership Conference
Join us, online, as we celebrate our 20th anniversary and imagine a new future for authorizing.
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ABOUT OUR VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
The 2020 NACSA Leadership Conference will be entirely virtual. You will be able to access sessions, networking events, and hear from expert speakers right from your home or office. Sessions will vary in format and level of participation. All sessions will run live Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and then be available on NACSA’s online digital learning community – AuthoRISE.
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* Organization rates include access for all employees planning to attend.
Why Go?
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Advance your skills as an authorizing leader. Learn how to apply real-world knowledge to your unique context from the comfort of your home. Be empowered to lead and supported with knowledge and resources created specifically for authorizers.
SPEAKER EXPERTISE
Learn from experienced authorizers and experts in the field as we all make plans for an uncertain future. Dialogue with experts and peers who have experienced success and know how to improve public education and discuss new ways of authorizing through this challenging context. Explore top authorizing and national education issues in a variety of session formats, from workshops to insight talks, to Pecha Kucha. Leave this virtual conference with clear action items and tools.
NETWORKING
A key to all our success is learning from and connecting with fellow authorizing leaders from around the nation. Our virtual platform creates unique opportunities to get together with colleagues, to network with other authorizing professionals, and build fruitful relationships.
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING
The world is changing at a rapid pace and we’re committed to meeting you where you are. Access conference materials through our learning platform, AuthoRISE and attend as many conference sessions as you’d like across the three weeks.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Join us as we #RadicallyImagine a new future of education with a live podcast with 8 Black Hands for this year’s plenary at #NACSAcon Virtual. Featuring Sharif El-Mekki, Raymond J. Ankrum, Sr., Chris Stewart and Dr. Charles Cole III have the often-difficult conversations needed surrounding our educational system while also advocating for educational equity and social justice. Let’s learn and push forward together as we all stand up to fight for equity and justice. You won’t want to miss the inspirational lessons and ideas from this year’s live podcast.
RAYMOND ANKRUM
Raymond Ankrum is a firm believer that education can be the catalyst to eradicate generational poverty.As a first-generation college student, Mr. Ankrum utilized education to escape the school to prison pipeline. He graduated from the University of Stony Brook with a Bachelor of Arts in African-American Studies and a Master’s Degree in Professional Studies with a concentration in Human Resources and Management, and attended Morgan State University to obtain his Master’s of Arts in Teaching Social Studies.In 2010, Mr. Ankrum earned his Ed.M from Teachers College, Columbia University.
CHRIS STEWART
Chris Stewart is CEO of Brightbeam, a public education advocacy nonprofit. In 2018, he founded Wayfinder Foundation, a nonprofit that invests in grassroots anti-poverty and education activism. Prior to that he built relationships in urban communities as Director of External Affairs at Education Post.In 2013 Chris became the founding Executive Director of the African American Leadership Forum (AALF), a cross-sector network of Black leaders working to develop and implement an urban policy agenda across five northwest states.
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.
SESSIONS & SCHEDULE
SCHEDULING
This year’s NACSA Leadership Conference will run October 12-30, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 12pm CT to 5pm CT.
SESSIONS
Sessions for this year’s conference will address a number of education issues, authorizing best practices, and more. Conference participants will walk away with practical skills and knowledge to radically reimagine their authorizing work and public education.
Sessions will be offered live in several different virtual formats and made available on AuthoRISE.
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