The conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, from December 8 – 11, 2025. Participants will receive a link to book hotel rooms at a special discounted rate after registering. Details will be shared in your confirmation email. When making your travel plans, make sure to arrive Monday afternoon, December 8, in time for the Welcome Reception at 5:00 p.m. and depart Thursday afternoon, December 11 after our closing plenary, which ends at 12:00 p.m.

Registration will open soon. Discounted rates are for NHSA members only. If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact NHSA Membership department at membership@nhsa.org before registering.

Orlando International Airport (MCO)

No shuttles will be provided.

You will receive a link to the hotel registration page with the discounted rate in your confirmation email after registering for the conference.

Yes. Email events@nhsa.org to book your device in advance.

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All requests for conference cancellations must be submitted in writing prior to the start of the conference. Cancellation notifications must be emailed to cancellation@nhsa.org. Please include the name of the registrant and the name of the conference. Each canceled registration will be assessed a $75 cancellation fee.

For more information about NHSA’s Cancellation and Refund Policy, visit: nhsa.org/conferences/cancellation-policy

By registering for an NHSA event, all registrants understand and agree that the National Head Start Association (“NHSA”) and its employees and agents have the right and permission to copyright and/or use, reuse and/or publish, and republish photographic pictures or portraits of them, recorded images of them, including recordings of their voice, in any medium, including motion picture and video images and reproductions thereof in color or black and white, made through any media by or on behalf of NHSA, for any purpose whatsoever, including the use of any printed matter in conjunction therewith. Registrants further waive any right to inspect or approve the finished photograph, motion picture, videotape, advertising copy, or printed matter that may be used in conjunction therewith or to the eventual use that it might be applied.

Registrants further release, discharge, and agree to save harmless NHSA, its employees and agents, and any firm publishing and/or distributing the finished product, in whole or in part, from and against any liability as a result of any distortion, blurring, or alteration, optical illusion, or use in composite form, either intentionally or otherwise, that may occur or be produced in the taking, recording, processing, editing, or reproduction of the finished product, its publication or distribution of the same, even should the same subject them, the designated property, to ridicule, scandal, reproach, scorn, or indignity.

Registrants further warrant that they are over eighteen years of age, or if they are not, their parent or guardian consents to their agreement, upon registration, to this release.

If you have any questions, please email: marcomm@nhsa.org