Michigan AEYC Request for Proposals

Thank you for your interest in presenting at a Michigan AEYC conference. We value engaging, practical, and meaningful professional learning experiences that support the early childhood workforce across Michigan.

As you prepare your proposal, we encourage you to focus on your strengths, experiences, passions, and areas of expertise rather than trying to build a session solely around a conference theme. While conference themes may help guide the overall tone of an event, Michigan AEYC strives to offer a well-rounded conference experience that reflects the many roles, settings, and interests within the early childhood workforce.

Often, the strongest and most impactful sessions come from presenters sharing authentic knowledge, practical strategies, and meaningful experiences connected to the work they know best. We encourage you to consider the audience attending each conference and how your session may best support their needs and professional growth. For example, the Infant-Toddler Conference primarily serves professionals working with infants and toddlers, while the Coaching Summit is designed largely for coaches, mentors, and professional learning leaders.

Because we receive a large number of proposals each year, selecting sessions involves balancing many topic areas, audience needs, and perspectives. We encourage presenters to submit proposals that reflect their unique voice, expertise, and strengths within the field.

Please complete the following proposal form in its entirety. Session proposals will be reviewed based on relevance, clarity, participant engagement, practical application, and alignment with conference goals and audience needs.

Michigan AEYC Conference Session Proposal Submission Form

Current Request for Proposals

Michigan AEYC Coaching Conference Michigan AEYC’s Coaching Conference will take place this November 16th and 17th in Lansing, Michigan, bringing together approximately 400-500 early childhood professionals who identify as coaches, mentors, or individuals growing into a coaching role. This conference is designed for those who coach, mentor, guide, or support early childhood professionals across a variety of roles, including GSRP coaches, specialists, consultants, trainers, home visitors, lead teachers, administrators, early childhood leaders, and others with a coaching or mentoring focus. We hope to create a space where new, emerging, and experienced coaches can learn from one another, reflect on their work, strengthen their practice, and explore the many approaches within early childhood coaching. This year, as Michigan continues to expand its use of Practice-Based Coaching and Pyramid Model practices, we are especially interested in sessions that support coaches in understanding, applying, and strengthening these approaches. We also welcome proposals that explore the broader experience of coaching, including reflective supervision, adult learning, feedback conversations, relationship-based coaching, data-informed coaching, coaching across differences, coaching in home-based settings, supporting implementation, boundary setting, ethics, documentation, coaching for equity and inclusion, coach well-being, and building your coaching identity. Breakout sessions are 75 minutes and should be practical, reflective, and relevant to the real work of coaches and mentors supporting early childhood professionals across Michigan.

Michigan AEYC Coaching Summit

Submission Deadline August 15, 2026

Michigan AEYC’s Coaching Summit will take place this November 16th and 17th  in Lansing, Michigan, bringing together approximately 400-500 early childhood professionals who identify as coaches, mentors, or individuals growing into a coaching role. This conference is designed for those who coach, mentor, guide, or support early childhood professionals across a variety of roles, including GSRP coaches, specialists, consultants, trainers, home visitors, lead teachers, administrators, early childhood leaders, and others with a coaching or mentoring focus. We hope to create a space where new, emerging, and experienced coaches can learn from one another, reflect on their work, strengthen their practice, and explore the many approaches within early childhood coaching.

This year, as Michigan continues to expand its use of Practice-Based Coaching and Pyramid Model practices, we are especially interested in sessions that support coaches in understanding, applying, and strengthening these approaches. We also welcome proposals that explore the broader experience of coaching, including reflective supervision, adult learning, feedback conversations, relationship-based coaching, data-informed coaching, coaching across differences, coaching in home-based settings, supporting implementation, boundary setting, ethics, documentation, coaching for equity and inclusion, coach well-being, and building your coaching identity.

Breakout sessions are 75 minutes and should be practical, reflective, and relevant to the real work of coaches and mentors supporting early childhood professionals across Michigan.

Michigan AEYC Infant-Toddler Conference Michigan AEYC’s Infant-Toddler Conference will take place this December 11th in Auburn Hills, Michigan, bringing together approximately 300 professionals who support infants, toddlers, and their families. This one-day conference is designed for infant and toddler classroom teachers, classroom assistants, specialists, home visitors, family child care providers, directors, coaches, early intervention professionals, mental health consultants, and other professionals who support infants and toddlers across center-based, home-based, or community-based settings. We hope to create a space where professionals can deepen their knowledge, share practical strategies, and strengthen the relationships, routines, and learning experiences that shape the earliest years of development. We encourage presenters from all roles and experience levels to submit a proposal. Whether you are new to the field, emerging in your practice, or bringing years of expertise, we want to hear what is working in your classroom, program, home visiting practice, community, or system. We are especially interested in sessions focused on curriculum, infant and toddler development, family engagement, assessment, responsive caregiving, routines, social-emotional development, behavior, language development, cultural responsiveness, trauma-informed care, home visiting, relationship-based care, and practices that honor family voice, culture, and relationships. Breakout sessions are 75 minutes and should be practical, engaging, and relevant to the everyday work of professionals supporting infants, toddlers, families, and the adults who care for them.

Michigan AEYC Infant-Toddler Conference

Submission Deadline Sept 15, 2026

Michigan AEYC’s Infant-Toddler Conference will take place this December 11th in Auburn Hills, Michigan, bringing together approximately 300 professionals who support infants, toddlers, and their families. This one-day conference is designed for infant and toddler classroom teachers, classroom assistants, specialists, home visitors, family child care providers, directors, coaches, early intervention professionals, mental health consultants, and other professionals who support infants and toddlers across center-based, home-based, or community-based settings. We hope to create a space where professionals can deepen their knowledge, share practical strategies, and strengthen the relationships, routines, and learning experiences that shape the earliest years of development.

We encourage presenters from all roles and experience levels to submit a proposal. Whether you are new to the field, emerging in your practice, or bringing years of expertise, we want to hear what is working in your classroom, program, home visiting practice, community, or system. We are especially interested in sessions focused on curriculum, infant and toddler development, family engagement, assessment, responsive caregiving, routines, social-emotional development, behavior, language development, cultural responsiveness, trauma-informed care, home visiting, relationship-based care, and practices that honor family voice, culture, and relationships.

Breakout sessions are 75 minutes and should be practical, engaging, and relevant to the everyday work of professionals supporting infants, toddlers, families, and the adults who care for them.