2026 Small Schools Summit

You've spent the morning gathering insights from breakout sessions on the unique challenges and opportunities of small school leadership. Now it's time to make those ideas stick. In this first role-based cohort meeting, you'll join fellow colleagues in similar roles to process what resonated most, tackle real challenges together, and plan concrete next steps you can take back to your schools.

This collaborative session is designed to help you move from inspiration to implementation. You'll debrief key learnings from the morning's sessions and identify which strategies are most relevant to your specific context and role. Working with peers who share your day-to-day realities, you'll engage in collaborative problem-solving around the challenges you're currently facing, whether that's stretched budgets, enrollment pressures, faculty retention, or balancing strategy with daily operations.

You'll also have the opportunity to build accountability structures with your cohort, including planning peer audits or school visits that extend your learning beyond the summit. Leave this session with actionable commitments, peer partnerships for ongoing support, and a clearer sense of what you'll tackle first when you return to campus. This is where connection turns into momentum.