Call for Proposals
Share Your Knowledge & Expertise at Stronger Together
We invite you to share your knowledge, expertise, experience, and ideas by submitting a proposal for Stronger Together: Strengthening the Early Childhood Workforce.
We are looking for engaging, practical, and relevant sessions that support, inspire, and strengthen professionals across the early childhood workforce. We welcome proposals from a variety of perspectives, roles, and disciplines.
Strong proposals should:
- Offer practical ideas, strategies, tools, or approaches participants can use in their work
- Create opportunities for participant engagement and interaction
- Reflect current knowledge, promising practices, or lessons learned from the field
- Be relevant to one or more roles within the Stronger Together audience
- Support learning, connection, collaboration, or growth across the early childhood workforce
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Conference Focus Areas
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We are seeking proposals that align with one of the following focus areas:
Strengthening Relationships
Building meaningful, relationship-based practices that support children, families, and professionals.
Strengthening Professional Practice
Skills, strategies, and approaches that strengthen professional learning, coaching, consultation, training, and implementation.
Strengthening the Workforce
Supporting the well-being, development, effectiveness, and sustainability of the early childhood workforce.
Strengthening Access & Opportunity
Creating learning spaces, practices, and systems where all children, families, professionals, and communities can thrive.
Strengthening Communities & Systems
Building partnerships and strengthening systems through collaboration, leadership, implementation, and innovation
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Proposal Details
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Session Formats
We are seeking proposals for the following session formats:
75- Minute Session
A standard breakout session to share ideas, strategies, and practices.
Wednesday, April 14
Morning & afternoon sessions
150- Minute Session
An extended session with more time for learning, application, and interaction.
Thursday, April 15
Morning session available
Presenter Stipend & Travel
Selected presenters will receive a stipend based on session length.
- 75-minute session: $300 total per session
- 150-minute session: $600 total per session
- An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is required to receive a presenter stipend.
- Mileage reimbursement and overnight accommodations may be available based on travel distance.
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What You'll Need to Submit
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Before you begin, please be prepared to provide:
- Presenter Information — contact information and a brief professional biography
- Co-Presenters —proposals are encouraged to include no more than one co-presenter
- Intended Audience — the professional roles your session is designed to support
- Participant Engagement — how you plan to actively engage participants in the learning experience
- Session Title & Description — a clear overview of your proposed session
- Conference Focus Area — the focus area that best aligns with your session
- Session Format — 75-minute or 150-minute session
- Learning Objectives — what participants will know or be able to do as a result of the session