SPEAK 2026: October 17 at UK

  SPEAK is a professional development conference for speech/debate teachers/coaches that began in 2011 with seed money from the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA). 

SPEAK occurs every year with the support of the speech and debate organizations in Kentucky (KHSSL is the organizing lead). It’s officially the Speech Professional Education Alliance of Kentucky! Allied organizations (with KHSSL) are the Kentucky District of the National Speech and Debate Association, the Kentucky (Louisville) Diocese of the National Catholic Forensic League, and the Wilson Wyatt Debate League.

An amazing keynote by our Keynote Speaker, Neomia Hagans Flores of Kentucky's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (bio here)!

Door prizes!

Fellowship with fellow teachers and coaches! And connections for help throughout the year!

Workshops you can't get anywhere else in Kentucky -- just for speech/debate! See below!!

Certificates showing six hours (6) of 

Professional Development / 

Inservice Credit!

Free lunch!

$40 Registration fee includes lunch. 

First-year coaches who have joined KHSSL 

by October 15 -- 

KHSSL pays your registration!

Registration   8 - 9 AM

Welcome and Keynote   9:15 AM

"The Things We Carry"

Neomia Hagans Flores

Dunbar High School

2026 National Federation of High Schools National Speech/Debate Coach of the Year

Classes, Seminars, Lunch, and Door Prizes 9:45 AM to 3:45 PM

Registrants attend two seminars and three classes plus the Keynote. 

Registrants will receive certificates noting six hours of inservice credit.