Tickets can be purchased during online registration for special events that require tickets. Space is limited.
- 6am
Fun Run
Ticketed Event: $10 fee includes t-shirt
Join your fellow attendees on an invigorating 5K Fun Run in New Orleans! Visit registration to add yourself and one guest for the 5K Fun Run. Just $10.00 includes participation in the run and a T-shirt!
- 8 – 10am
Special Contracts Session
Ticketed Event: $75
No part of a superintendent's working conditions is more important than the contract with the school board. Get an overview of key contract provisions for superintendent contracts and contract provisions to avoid. Participate in a discussion about who should negotiate a contract for a superintendent, how a superintendent can avoid being terminated and key provisions of severance agreements, should termination be necessary.
- 8:30am – 3pm
Career Expo
Tickets NOT required for this event
Job seekers and employers will attend the 2025 AASA Career Expo, along with hundreds of passionate AASA members, NCE attendees, job seekers from the AASA Career Center, and other passionate school administrators.
For job seekers, this is your chance to advance your career and be a part of the most exciting recruiting and networking event in your field.
For employers, the hallmark of your organization’s success is hiring the right people — and we are offering just the right avenue to help get you one step closer to that goal.
- 12noon – 1:30pm
Federal Relations Luncheon
Ticketed Event: $80
Join us for a lunch discussion on education policy, updates and news.
Visit them at Booth #1116 in the NCE Exhibit Hall.
- 11am – 3pm
Career Expo
Tickets NOT required for this event
Job seekers and employers will attend the 2025 AASA Career Expo, along with hundreds of passionate AASA members, NCE attendees, job seekers from the AASA Career Center, and other passionate school administrators.
For job seekers, this is your chance to advance your career and be a part of the most exciting recruiting and networking event in your field.
For employers, the hallmark of your organization’s success is hiring the right people — and we are offering just the right avenue to help get you one step closer to that goal.
- 11am – 12 noon
Blessings in a Backpack Stuffing
Tickets NOT required for this event
Approximately 13 million children struggle with hunger on a regular basis. AASA and Sourcewell are proud to partner with Blessings in a Backpack (BIB) during the 2025 National Conference on Education to help provide food on weekends for elementary students who qualify for their school’s free and reduced-price meal program.
- 12:30 – 2:30pm
Dr. Effie H. Jones Memorial Equity Luncheon
Ticketed Event: $80
Preparing Students to Succeed in an Inclusive Society: the Power of Leadership, Education, and Stories Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III
The Dr. Effie H. Jones Memorial Equity Luncheon is an annual event at the National Conference on Education. It remembers Dr. Effie H. Jones, who was a teacher, counselor and school administrator for 15 years and served as an associate executive director at AASA, promoting the interests of minority educators and children.
