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National Leadership Summit

NEA's annual National Leadership Summit helps to develop activist leaders and prepare them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to lead relevant, thriving associations and to lead in their professions. Our unified, strategic, and interdisciplinary approach to leadership development reinforces and supports key leadership competencies in seven strategic areas.

Make plans to join us March 7-9 for the 2025 NEA National Leadership Summit, held at the Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit, Michigan.

2025 NEA Leadership Summit. Save the date - March 7-9, 2025 in Detroit Michigan.

The theme of the 2025 Summit is Promote. Protect. Strengthen. Public Education: The Foundation of Our Democracy! The theme serves as a frame for the focus of the design, engagement, and relevance of the training experiences that you can expect at the Summit. The theme is a frame for the design of the Summit and highlights NEA’s strategic priorities and vision to unite members and the nation to build a movement to reclaim public education as a common good, as the foundation of our democracy, and transform it into a racially and socially just and equitable system that prepares every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

Registration

You must be a member of NEA or a local/state affiliate staff person in order to attend the Summit. For more information about the Summit, email [email protected].

To become a member or ally of students and educators, click here.

Registration and hotel information is forthcoming.

If your state/local is looking to reserve and pay for multiple rooms on behalf of teams who are attending the Summit, please email [email protected].

Request for Proposals – Submission is Closed

The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2025 Summit has closed. Notifications of accepted proposals will begin on December 4. If you have questions about a submission, please email [email protected]. Please note that submitting a proposal does not guarantee acceptance. If multiple presenters are listed on a proposal, only the primary presenter will be funded, if accepted.

What to expect from Summit sessions?

The Summit breakout sessions are designed to be experiential learning sessions. The sessions are led by members, partners, and staff. Participants can expect to develop a foundational awareness of the NEA Leadership Competency Framework. The framework is a set of interconnected competency domains that describe the knowledge, skills, and behaviors NEA believes are necessary for every educator to achieve their career, professional, and Association goals.

Scroll to the end of the page to learn more about the framework and download the NEA Leadership Competency Guide.

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