• Understand your audience
• Consider conference theme alignment – “Geography on the Fall Line”
• Have a specific session type (see below)
• Consider the conference’s topic areas/strands:
  • America250 through a Geographic Lens,
  • Geospatial Technology,
  • Physical & Environmental Geography,
  • Human and Cultural Geography,
  • Geography for Life
• Who is your target audience?
  • Early Childhood/Elementary Educators
  • Middle School/Junior High Educators
  • Secondary/High School Educators
  • Higher Education Educators
  • Supervisory/Administration Professionals
  • APHG Educators
• Provide at a minimum, one attendee take-away (physical hand-outs and/or digitally accessible).

Choose the format that fits your presentation style: 

• Session: A 45-minute traditional type. 
• Power Session: A 30-minute session that is a short presentation on a topic, resource, or tool. 
• Workshop: Workshops are two hours in length. Workshops should include in-depth learning and exploration, Please note all 2-hour workshops will be scheduled to take place on Friday afternoon of the conference. 
• Poster: Designed to be impactful information sessions on research and institutional programs.

  Posters will be available to view throughout the conference. During dedicated poster session time blocks in the conference schedule, presenters will be available at their posters to discuss their research and programs. Attendees can use this one-on-one time with presenters to learn more, ask questions, and talk through implications and application for their classroom. See “Poster Session Guidelines” section for a detailed description. 

Please note that presentation slots are limited. For this reason, presenters may not appear on the program in more than two presentations. All proposals will be reviewed blind (with no names attached) and scored by multiple reviewers. The Review Committee will make its selection from the top-ranked proposals. In an effort to offer a diverse professional development experience for conference participants, alignment with this year’s Theme, “Geography on the Fall Line,” and the topic/strand focus will be taken into consideration during the review process. If you have additional questions and answers not found in the Call for Proposals Submission Guide, please email your questions to mailto:info@ncge.org

If you are selected as a presenter, you will be required to register for the conference by May 1 , 2026.  While we wish would could help defray the costs for presenters, NCGE does not reimburse conference presenters for travel or hotel expenses.

As a selected presenter, you will be responsible for providing any materials for use or distribution in your presentation.  We ask that each presentation provides at a minimum, one attendee take-away (physical hand-outs and/or digitally accessible). The costs of basic presentation A/V equipment (projector/screen, microphone) will be covered by NCGE.  If your proposal is accepted, NCGE will confirm your audio-visual needs via email.

Commercial solicitation is prohibited at all presentations. If you are representing a commercial interest, your presentation must be educational in nature. If the essential purpose of a proposal is to promote books, materials, or services for sale, it will not be accepted. It will be considered an informational session.

Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent via email to the “Lead” (primary) presenter by April 7, 2026. It is the lead presenter’s responsibility to relay all information to any co-presenters. If you do not receive notice by May 1, 2026, please contact Lisa Marie Tobin. Scheduling information will be sent to all participants by September 1, 2026.