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My first time attending this and it was an excellent blend of affinity space work that POCC used to provide, along with a lot of great sessions on topics such as AI, communication and leadership skills, as well as a range of very special student-performances from varioius Asian cultural heritage groups around San Diego. It was a special opportunity to honor my own family and roots and my mom was able to visit and even hear from the panel speaking about how we can support Arab and Muslim students which was so important in these times. I was able to connect over the conference with many Bay Area leaders as they often arranged our seating by Regions around California and the networking to hear about how schools are addressing AI specifically, was very useful especially as I'm preparing to share our own work on this with the Board next week. I appreciated being at this conference and as an independent school leader, it was a unique opportunity to hear how many of the same issues we address were being addressed at a larger scale at public schools across the state. To hear from so many leaders about their own journey was special and the conference theme of Rooted in Culture, Rising in Power was intentional and evident across all of the keynotes, sessions, vendors, performances, and set-up of the overall excellent conference that I was appreciative to be a part of.