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.

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.

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.

The Small Schools Summit has equipped you with new insights, strategies, and connections, but real change happens when you translate learning into focused action. In this closing cohort session, you'll craft a personalized 90-day action plan grounded in the learning journey you've been following throughout the summit, whether that's financial sustainability, strategy and systems, or people and team. 

This session is structured to help you leave with clarity and momentum. You'll reflect on your journey-specific learnings and identify the highest-impact strategies to implement first. Working individually and collaboratively, you'll create a concrete action plan with defined milestones, timelines, and success indicators for your first 90 days back at school. Your cohort will serve as accountability partners, committing to support one another's progress through check-ins, resource sharing, and virtual problem-solving sessions.
Before we close, you'll share your commitments with your cohort, building a network of peer support that extends well beyond this summit. Leave with your plan in hand, trusted colleagues in your corner, and the confidence that the work you've started here will continue to unfold in meaningful ways at your school.

The Small Schools Summit has equipped you with new insights, strategies, and connections, but real change happens when you translate learning into focused action. In this closing cohort session, you'll craft a personalized 90-day action plan grounded in the learning journey you've been following throughout the summit, whether that's financial sustainability, strategy and systems, or people and team. 

This session is structured to help you leave with clarity and momentum. You'll reflect on your journey-specific learnings and identify the highest-impact strategies to implement first. Working individually and collaboratively, you'll create a concrete action plan with defined milestones, timelines, and success indicators for your first 90 days back at school. Your cohort will serve as accountability partners, committing to support one another's progress through check-ins, resource sharing, and virtual problem-solving sessions.
Before we close, you'll share your commitments with your cohort, building a network of peer support that extends well beyond this summit. Leave with your plan in hand, trusted colleagues in your corner, and the confidence that the work you've started here will continue to unfold in meaningful ways at your school.

The Small Schools Summit has equipped you with new insights, strategies, and connections, but real change happens when you translate learning into focused action. In this closing cohort session, you'll craft a personalized 90-day action plan grounded in the learning journey you've been following throughout the summit, whether that's financial sustainability, strategy and systems, or people and team. 

This session is structured to help you leave with clarity and momentum. You'll reflect on your journey-specific learnings and identify the highest-impact strategies to implement first. Working individually and collaboratively, you'll create a concrete action plan with defined milestones, timelines, and success indicators for your first 90 days back at school. Your cohort will serve as accountability partners, committing to support one another's progress through check-ins, resource sharing, and virtual problem-solving sessions.
Before we close, you'll share your commitments with your cohort, building a network of peer support that extends well beyond this summit. Leave with your plan in hand, trusted colleagues in your corner, and the confidence that the work you've started here will continue to unfold in meaningful ways at your school.