Chapter Leaders

Join us for the inaugural Pacific Northwest CSTA Leadership summit! - Hybrid Attendance Welcome!

Chapters often want to encourage new people to get involved in volunteer and leadership roles. Some folks are reluctant to step into leadership positions because they have limited experience and the unknown set of expectations seems daunting and hard to learn, particularly when they are often very busy with other parts of their lives and careers.

In the past, there has been a chapter leader or volunteer summit at the CSTA annual conference. This summit has been instrumental in building community both within each chapter's board as well as between CSTA chapter leaders, as well as supporting new leaders. Sadly, this year CSTA is not planning to host a volunteer summit at the conference. We hope to mitigate this absence by offering potential leaders the opportunity to attend a one day regional leadership summit. There they will learn more about how to effectively be a board participant, the expectations of the role, and experience the community we try to form as part of the CSTA Chapter leadership.

Location: East Valley High (1900 Beaudry Road Yakima, WA)
When: June 20, 2026, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Tentative Agenda:
8:30-9:00 – Arrive, Coffee and Snacks
9:00-9:50 – Welcome and Keynote 
9:50-10:00 – Break
10:00-10:55 – Session 1: Running and Effective Non Profit
10:55-11:05 – Break
11:05-12:00 – Session 2: Supporting and Growing Your Chapter
12:00-1:00 – Lunch and Learn: Chapter Share outs and Semi – Structured postmortem from the year
1:00-3:00 – Chapter work time (filling out CSTA Goals and Planning for 2027-28)
3:00-4:00 – Closing share out (takeaways and novel ideas from the event)

Note: We chose Yakima as a "relatively central location" so people could potentially drive to the venue the morning of the event and home that evening. We are also exploring hotel options for the night of 6/19. We do have limited funds available to help offset the cost of travel to this event to encourage participation. We are also planning on a hybrid component. 

Registration information: Register through the Google form by one of these two deadlines:

• June 1st to be considered for travel grant and/or carpooling
• June 18th if you are are self funding your travel

Please send any questions to washington@csteachers.org.