Schedule Of Events

Calling all Early Risers!  

Join us for stress relief Yoga at Cotanchobee Park (Nextdoor to Marriott) Yoga instructor will be from "Lucky Cat Yoga Studio"

*Please bring your own mat or towel. 

Governor Ron DeSantis will join us to welcome all Joyful Warriors to the free state of Florida! Listen as the Gladiator Governor shares his vision for Florida and the future of a free America. Strong on Liberty with no time for woke nonsense!

 

Followed by Parental Rights Panel 

Listen as parental rights champions Erin Grall and Joe Harding discuss the importance of a Parents' Bill of Rights at the state level and the work that can be done to improve upon parental 

Florida Representative Erin Grall 

Florida Represensative Joe Harding is a seventh generation Floridian and most importantly a husband and Dad of four children. He was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2020. Harding has risen to prominence for sponsoring Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis in March. The law requires public schools to keep parents fully informed and restricts classroom teaching on sex and gender theory in grades K-3

Learn to advocate for your child in a way that ensures they get what they most need to thrive. Learn from some moms of children with special needs who have honed the ability to advocate effectively.

Session includes Q & A

 

Featuring:

Marilyn Muller

Marilyn Muller is a mom to 14 year old twice-exceptional dyslexic, she lived closest to systemic failures in both general and special education classrooms when her daughter struggled to acquire the five foundational skills of early literacy in their local "A" rated Massachusetts district school, due to poor-quality Balanced Literacy curriculum and instruction K-3.

 

Debra Tisler, M.S.Ed.

Debra Tisler is a mother of four, special education advocate, and educator. She has devoted 28 years to education, focusing on literacy and special education. 

 

 

Current and former school board members will share their insights and lessons learned from their time serving.

 

Featuring:

Tina Descovich, Co-founder of Moms for Liberty. She was elected to the Brevard County, FL school board in 2016. She was selected by her peers in 2017 to serve as Vice Chairman and Chairman in 2018.  

 

Tiffany Justice, Co-founder of Moms for Liberty. Tiffany is a wife and mom of four school-aged children. In 2016 she stepped up to serve for 4 years on the School District of Indian River County, FL School Board. 

Bridget Ziegler, mom of 3 dauthers and school board member in Sarasota County, FL. She has served as a conservative voice (in the minority) since 2014 and has been a leader in the Parental Rights movement. 

 

Erika Donalds, Chief Executive Officer of Optima Ed.  Erika is a mother of three boys and former finance executive with a passion for education. She is a former elected member of the Collier County, FL School Board. During her tenure, she co-founded the Florida Coalition of School Board Members and served as the group’s President.

Moderated by Katherine Gorka, Research Fellow, Civil Society and the American Dialogue, and The Heritage Foundation.

 

Session includes Q & A

Learn to establish credibility, draw media coverage, and craft a communications strategy that will help fulfill your mission.

Florida's First Lady Casey DeSantis proves that anything is possible with moms on a mission. A mom of three herself, she will share inspiration and lessons learned from her journey.

THE MARXIFICATION OF EDUCATION

Dr. James Lindsay takes us on a deep dive into the Marxification of education courtesy of Paulo Freire, Brazilian Marxist and Liberation Theologian. Freire remade literacy education according to his ideological programs and thereby ruined it. Now, his work has been so influential on the "Critical Pedagogy" (or, "Critical Education Theory") movement that virtually all teachers are trained in his ideas and implement them in classrooms across the nation. James Lindsay will break down what this unfortunate turn in education means for schools and our kids.

  

Gender ideology has been creeping into our schools under the guise of inclusion and non-discrimination. Simultaneously, gender ideology has infiltrated many aspects of our culture, primarily through social media. School districts have pushed this ideology throughout the nation by creating an environment where children and teens are increasingly confused about their sex when no previous confusion had ever existed. School districts have even enabled gender-confused students to "socially transition" without their parent's knowledge or consent. Join us to learn the threat gender ideology poses to our children and how to defeat it in our schools

Featuring:

January Littlejohn, M.S., Ed.S., LMHC

January is a wife and stay-at-home mom to three children. She has a master's degree in counseling and an education specialist degree. She is also a licensed mental health counselor. Her free time is devoted to educating parents on the dangers of gender ideology and trying to restore parental rights in our schools. She also helps parents, whose children have fallen prey to this ideology, find resources to support their family through this crisis, and understand all treatment options available to them.

Patti Sullivan

Patti is the Florida State Coordinator for ParentalRights.org’s and a long-time advocate for families and parental rights.

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D.

Jay is director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in Religious Liberty and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. He researches, writes, and speaks on policy that protects life, marriage, religious liberty and civil society.  

Jay is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers and heis also creator and executive producer of several documentaries, including three that have appeared widely on PBS. 

Session includes Q & A

Website, Tendenci, and database training featuring Moms for Liberty's Systems Administrator, Jade Zalewski. This strategy session is for active members of a Moms for Liberty Chapter only.

Come to understand the moral foundations all people use to make decisions, learn to use intuitive language, and more effectively message even to those who may disagree with you.

The law can be a powerful weapon, offering hope for a lasting victory. Before you can successfully reclaim your child’s school, you need to first understand your rights as a parent and your child’s rights as a student. Southeastern Legal Foundation’s legal boot camp will equip you with the legal tools you need to stand up for your child in this fight for freedom.

Featuring:

Kimberly Hermann, who serves as General Counsel for Southeastern Legal Foundation. Since 2009, she has been working with SLF where she has dedicated her legal career to the freedom-based law movement.

 

Braden Boucek, who serves as the Director of Litigation for Southeastern Legal Foundation. He is a seasoned constitutional litigator and is proud to have spent over two decades fighting for liberty and the rule of law.

How to stay focused on your mission and ignore the noise.

Featuring: TBA

Discuss the realities of what it takes to run a successful campaign and go over questions you should ask before jumping into a campaign.

Session includes Q & A

Calling all Early Risers!  

Join us for stress relief Yoga at Cotanchobee Park (Nextdoor to Marriott) Yoga instructor will be from "Lucky Cat Yoga Studio"

*Please bring your own mat or towel. 

Seventeen families' lives were changed forever when a killer entered Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. In the weeks that followed, parents, politicians, and professionals worked together to find multifaceted solutions to secure our schools. Hear from a panel featuring:

Senator Rick Scott, who, as the Governor of Florida at the time, orchestrated the state response to the Parkland tragedy.

Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter Alaina in the Parkland tragedy and was appointed by Governor Rick Scott to serve on the  Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission. Ryan was appointed by   Governor Ron DeSantis to the Florida State Board of Education in January of 2020.

Tina Descovich, who was a school board member at the time and is one of only 2 school board members to complete the 172 hours of School Guardian training required in Florida.

Bridget Ziegler, who was a school board member at the time and continues to serve in Sarasota County. Sarasota school district chose to create an internal police force. 

 

Moderated by Tiffany Justice, Co-Founder of Moms for Liberty and a sitting school board member at the time of the Parkland tragedy

 

As people are becoming more comfortable posting on social media, they may feel intimidated to translate their thoughts into long-form blogs, op-eds, or books. Adam will show how you can, not only express yourself, but also become persuasive in the
process.

Come ready with the issues you would like to address in your community and our subject matter experts will help you to flesh those ideas out. 

Presenter: Adam Coleman- Wrongspeak Publishing, Free Speech With Intellectual Thought

Learn how to identify and endorse the best candidates in an ever-growing pool of people who claim to be pro-parent.

Featuring Marie Rogerson, the Executive Director of Program Development with Moms for Liberty, and Charlie O'Neill of the Leadership Institute.

Learn how to research candidates, your community, and campaign vulnerabilities.

Much has been said about the expansion of school choice across our country, and the huge demand for diverse academic options post-pandemic, but how does the average family access education freedom? How can we help our friends and
neighbors escape the monopoly and secure the best academic environment for their children? Learn what others are doing and walk away with some practical steps towards education freedom.

Presenter: Erika Donalds, President and CEO of the Optima Foundation.

 

For moms, nothing is more important than the basic, primal question: is my child safe at school? But unfortunately - parents better start asking. Because in the past decade, school bureaucrats and activist groups have pushed a set of school discipline policies - known as "restorative justice" that destabilize classrooms and endanger students. Ryan Petty, a member of the Florida State Board of Education and father of Alaina Petty, who was murdered in the Parkland School Shooting, and Max Eden, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students will explain to you the ideology and policies that can enable terrible tragedies in school, how these policies have spread, and what steps parents can take to make their schools put student safety first again.

Session includes Q&A

Featuring:

Ryan Petty, a member of the Florida State Board of Education and father of Alaina Petty, who was murdered in the Parkland School Shooting

Max Eden, a research fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute and co-author of Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

Come to understand the most effective methods of winning over voters, how to drive turnout for your cause or candidate, and determine exactly how many votes you need to win.

Betsy DeVos, 11th U.S. Secretary of Education

From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos.

Now, DeVos is ready to tell her side of the story after years of being vilified by the radical left for championing common-sense, conservative reforms in America’s schools.

 

Every human needs to learn social and emotional skills, but that's what parents are for. In this session, you'll learn how kids are being ideologically groomed to view their parents and families as oppressors, themselves as traumatized, and their teachers as the people to trust more than their parents for social and emotional guidance. SEL is in every school, but Deb will explain how you can take steps to protect your family from its influence.

Session includes Q&A

Featuring Deb Filman of The Reason We Learn

 

To take back our power as parents and win hearts and minds to our cause, we must be effective leaders. Learn how you can cultivate good leadership skills and enable those you work with to flourish in their roles.

 

Learn how to see results and change policy through an organized, intentional plan that will allow you to share your voice in the public policy process.

Join us for the pinnacle of our Summit, the Founders Awards. Where we will celebrate leaders on the ground who are defending and protecting parental rights every day at all levels of government.  We will be joined by fellow Joyful Warrior Allie Beth Stuckey, 

Featuring:

Music by Mary Millben

Special Guest, Alveda King

Founders Award Winners

Keynote address by Allie Beth Stuckey of Blaze TV

   

 

 

INVOCATION

Offered by Alveda King, American activist, author, member of the Frederick Douglas Bicentennial Commission, and niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

STANDFAST IN LIBERTY

We are Moms for Liberty but do you understand what Liberty actually means? Executive Director of Program Development, Marie Rogerson, will discuss the difference between freedom and liberty.

FATHERS MATTER

Former NFL player and involved father, Jack Brewer, will inspire as he talks about dreaming big and fighting for an America we can be proud to leave to the next generation.

THE CORNERSTONES OF OUR COUNTRY

Dr. Ben Carson is founder and Chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute will discuss the 4 founding principles which are cornerstones of our country: faith, liberty, community, and life as well as pursue common sense solutions that challenge conventional groupthink.

MUSICAL MOMENT

By Mary Millben, singer, actress, and media personality.

SEND-OFF REMARKS

by Tiffany Justice & Tina Descovich