2026 NAIS Student Civic Leadership Summit in Partnership with Close Up Foundation

This event brings together high school students from across the country to build knowledge, develop strategies, and hone leadership skills to make a positive impact. Through engagement with experts and collaborative inquiry into pressing national issues, students consider their individual and collective responsibilities and agency, identify best practices in community engagement, and develop vision statements and strategies to make a difference in their own communities. Students will present those plans to teachers, administrators, and other participants in the concurrent 2026 NNSP Annual Conference.