Pre-Conference: July 28 | Wenatchee, WA Conference: July 29-30 | Wenatchee, WA
OSPI and NCESD are excited to announce the 2026 Integrated MTSS Conference. This year’s conference will be held at the Wenatchee Convention Center in Wenatchee, WA, from July 28-30, 2026. Sessions will be tailored for specific audiences, including Principals, Teachers, MTSS Coaches/Specialists, School Psychologists, Special Education Directors, and District Administrators, to ensure relevant and meaningful learning experiences for all attendees.
2026 Keynote Presentations
Pre-Conference | Tuesday, July 28
Susan is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and worked as a Professor in School Psychology at Eastern Washington University (2005-2026). She has served in multiple leadership roles for WSASP, including president (2012-2014) and NASP Delegate (2019-2022). She led the WSASP writing team for the 2014 Professional Practice Guidelines for Evaluating Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and was the lead author on the Using Response to Intervention for Evaluating SLD section of the guidelines.
Over the past two decades, Susan has supported RTI and MTSS at the state level. She completed the National Center for Response to Intervention (NCRTI) Train-the-Trainer in 2011 and served as one of four RTI Evaluators for the Improving Core Subject Instruction for all Students Pilot Project (HB 2136) and the Retooling Instruction through Response to Intervention, 2009-2012. She co-developed a state training manual with NEWESD 101, Using the NCRTI Integrity Rubric and Washington RTI Site Interview form to Evaluate and Assist Teams with Implementation (2012). Susan served on the OSPI Specific Learning Disabilities Cadre (2019-2021) and was a faculty member for the Washington Administrators Improving MTSS (AIMS) project. She served on the writing team for the OSPI 2024 revisions to guidelines for SLD identification.
In 2024-2025, Susan revised the 2012 Washington State semi-structured interview and facilitator’s guide to align with the American Institutes for Research (AIR, 2025) MTSS Fidelity of Implementation Rubric for school leadership teams to identify needs and priorities for improved MTSS implementation. Susan also provides PREPaRE crisis prevention and response training and served as the coordinator for EWU’s graduate certificate in Social and Emotional Learning for Educational Equity (SEL-EE).
Conference | Wednesday, July 29
Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time.
She is a facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters , the executive producer and host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart , and the host of The Art of Gathering Digital Course.. Parker has spent 20 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India.
Parker is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia.
Parker’s The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Riverhead, 2018) has been named a Best Business Book of the year by Amazon, Esquire Magazine, NPR, the Financial Times, 1-800-CEO-READS and Bloomberg. She has spoken on the TED Main Stage, and her TEDx talk on purpose has been viewed over 3 million times. Parker’s work has been featured in numerous outlets including the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , NPR, TED.com, Forbes.com, Real Simple Magazine, Oprah.com, Bloomberg, Glamour, the Today Show and Morning Joe. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Anand Giridharadas , and their two children.
Are you interested in presenting at the 2026 MTSS Integrated Conference in Wenatchee, WA?
OSPI and NCESD are excited to host Washington’s Integrated MTSS Conference taking place at the Wenatchee Convention Center in Wenatchee, WA, July 28 – July 30. Deadline to submit presenter form is: March 31, 2026.
