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You’re invited to join 1,300+ driven child care owners and leaders at the Child Care Success Summit 2026, a powerful, results-focused experience happening in Arlington, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth area).

This isn’t just another conference.
This is your opportunity to fix what’s not working in your school and finally build what you actually want.

Over three intensive, game-changing days, you’ll walk away with real-world, proven strategies to increase enrollment, improve profitability, strengthen your team, and create a business that runs with more ease and less chaos. No fluff. No theory. Just what works and how to implement it the moment you get back.

But what makes this experience truly different?

You won’t be doing it alone.

You’ll be surrounded by a room full of child care leaders who get it, who are facing the same challenges, chasing the same growth, and committed to leveling up. The connections you make here won’t just inspire you, they’ll support you long after the event ends.

The Summit was created to solve a real problem in our industry: too many owners feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and isolated without a clear path forward.

This is where that changes.

This is where you fix your school and step into the next level of your business.

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Why Should You Attend This Conference?

Why you should attend...
Here’s just a tiny spoonful of the huge and transformational benefits that you’ll receive when you attend this conference!

Gain Expert Knowledge

The lineup of renowned speakers and industry experts will provide you with the latest research, best practices, and innovative strategies to elevate your child care business. From effective marketing techniques to staff management, financial planning to curriculum development, you will gain practical insights that can drive your business forward.

Be A Better Leader

We’re bringing in highly successful business owners to talk about how to be a smarter, more effective and successful entrepreneur and how to be a leader in your early learning business. We’ve restructured the way we do breakout sessions to eliminate “vendor pitches” and just bring pure strategic content to you, for both directors and owners.

Fall In Love With Your Business Again

It’s NOT just about “positive thinking” and motivation – although you will feel highly motivated when you leave. “More motivation” is a far too simplistic answer to the tough problems you are dealing with in your child care business. You need ANSWERS, clarity and solid, proven advice – which is exactly what you will get when you attend.

Extremely Productive Environment

It’s about being an active participant in a unique and extremely productive environment to help you get refocused on doing the RIGHT things to grow and succeed, whether that means maximizing the enrollment and staff excellence of one location, or growing to your 3rd, 5th, or 15th location.

Achieve New Levels Of Growth And Income

It’s about providing you with the ONLY opportunity to see, in great depth, exactly how your peers are breaking through their current income, time and staff limitations to achieve phenomenal new levels of growth and income.

Marketing And Business-Building Strategies

It’s about you getting to spend 3 full days with other success-focused early learning entrepreneurs who are “heavy users” of the Child Care Success Method™ strategies and methods, many of whom have been with us for years and can attribute huge increases in their personal wealth to the marketing and business- building strategies presented.

Increase Your Revenue & Profits

Learn how to leverage the quality & value of your program to increase rates without getting any pushback from parents.

Hire & Retain A-Players

Stop feeling drained by never-ending staff issues. Learn how to hire & retain A-players who will drive your company and culture forward.

Get Tools & Action Plans to Train Your Team

Take away tangible training materials that will empower you to train your staff according to your vision, mission, and goals.

Hire & Retain A-Players

Stop feeling drained by never-ending staff issues. Learn how to hire & retain A-players who will drive your company and culture forward.

Implement Your Big Vision

Master the art of delegating so you can stop working "in" your business every day and start working "on" your business instead.

Discover What's Working in Your Market

Network & mastermind with child care business owners like you who have successfully grown their businesses from the bottom up.

Get Your Phone Ringing

You're ready to dramatically increase inquiries into your program from quality prospects.

Build a Fool-Proof Marketing Strategy

Eliminate "hope" as a strategy by learning how to effectively use digital & social media ads to grow your enrollment and attract A-players to your company.

Regroup, Refresh & Have Fun

Step away from the chaos of your business for a breath of fresh air and positivity & look at your business "from the outside looking in."

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You feel like you’ve tried everything to grow your enrollment but you’re still just breaking even, or even worse, supporting your business with personal funds each month to keep it afloat
You stay up at night hoping that a cutting edge Marketing Fairy will come to your rescue

Then this conference is for you!

THE OBVIOUS
– Increase revenue & profits
Break through your negative mindset patterns that are holding you back
Dramatically increase inquiries into your program from quality prospects
Get the latest leadership techniques and skill development to improve your company culture
Discover your program’s unique value and how to effectively communicate it!
Learn exactly how to use digital media and social media ads and posts to grow your enrollment and attract great team members to your company
Have more fun in your business!
Break out into “laser focused” coaching sessions with our experts – AKA start a business makeover
Get tools, action plans, and worksheets to share with your staff that will help you easily transform them into your marketing partners!
Meet and get to know other owners & directors who really “get you” and can help you make that quantum leap
Hire, retain, and motivate the best staff for your program…even create your ‘dream team’
Figure out how to deliver the value your parents are seeking, so you can increase rates without any complaints from customers

Frequently Asked Questions

The Child Care Success Summit 2026 is a premier business and leadership conference for child care owners, directors, and early childhood education leaders. This is not a continuing education event. It is the room for owners who are done running a center that runs them and are ready to fix the business side of child care.

Everything is focused on what actually drives growth and freedom in your child care business, including enrollment growth, profitability and pricing, staffing and retention, leadership and team development, systems that support scale, and expanding to your next location. It is where you discover how to build a profitable, scalable child care business without burning out and finally take control of your time, your team, and your future.

A. The Child Care Success Summit 2026 is taking place in Arlington, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metro area, at the Lowe’s Arlington Hotel (888 Nolan Ryan Expressway, Arlington, Texas, 76011).

The event runs from October 7 to October 10, 2026.

A. This event is designed for child care center owners, preschool directors, multi-site operators, and aspiring owners who want to increase enrollment, streamline operations, scale to additional locations, and build a more profitable and sustainable business.

A. Sessions and breakouts cover child care marketing and enrollment growth, tuition pricing strategy, staff hiring and retention, leadership development for directors and owners, business profitability and cash flow, operational systems and efficiency, and how to expand to multiple child care locations. The focus is practical. You will leave with specific numbers, specific scripts, and specific systems, not inspiration you forget soon as the day ends.

A. Unlike traditional child care conferences built around licensing hours and professional development credits, this event is built for one thing: scaling and transforming your child care business. 

You won’t sit through generic sessions or collect hours you’ll never use. Every session, every speaker, every conversation is designed around real outcomes:

  • Filling your classrooms
  • Increasing your revenue
  • Paying and retaining great teachers
  • Raising your rates with confidence
    Streamlining your operations
  • Expanding to your next location with clarity and confidence
  • Getting out of the day to day so your business actually works for you
  • Because if you’ve ever left a conference feeling inspired but nothing actually changed, this is a completely different experience.

Everything is built around one goal helping you build a center that runs smoother, grows faster, and gives you back control of your time, your income, and your life.

A. Yes. You will be in the room with hundreds of child care business owners and the Child Care Success Company coaching team. Not a lecture hall where you sit in rows and listen. A working environment where you can ask your specific question about your specific center to someone who has solved that exact problem. The conversations in the hallways are often worth as much as the sessions.
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A. For a limited time through Monday, April 27, 2026, you can secure your tickets during our Super Early Bird sale and receive Buy One Get One Free access, giving you two tickets for just $797. Prices will increase after this date, and this event sells out every year, so we highly recommend reserving your seats as soon as possible.

Yes, but this is not a traditional vendor hall.

You will connect with 40+ curated strategic partners, each carefully selected because their tools and services are specifically designed to help child care businesses grow. These are not generic booths you pass by on your way to coffee.

They are trusted experts who already work within your industry, understand your day to day operations, and provide solutions you can actually use to scale your business.

A. If you are no longer able to attend the event and would like a refund, please email our Support Team at support@childcaresuccess.com for assistance and help. No refunds will be provided past Saturday, August 15, 2026 for any reason.

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