Presentations Available:
Curriculum
Title: Curriculum Leadership in the 21st Century (Comprehensive look at intersections between school mission, teaching and learning, supervision and evaluation, and professional development.)
Title: Essential Questions – Why You Should Be More Concerned With EQ’s Than IQ’s at Your School (Helping teachers realize the value of using Essential Questions and teaching them how to develop and use them effectively.)
Title: Curriculum Mapping (Considering the value of mapping, how to decide categories, steps for multi-year process of developing mapping at your school, as well as identifying best tools to use to make mapping practical and possible. Dan is a consulting partner with the Curriculum4Schools software mapping program.)
Classroom
Title: Classroom Behavior Management (How can teachers set up their classroom and year for success? Time to Teach is an incredibly effective behavior change program that is based on unconditional positive regard for students. Dan is a certified trainer for this program.)
Community
Title: Creating a Climate/Culture for Mission Achievement (What kind of climate/culture exists in your school? What specific ideas have been shown to positively impact climate/culture? An exploration of the relationship between climate, culture, and character and the mission, vision, and values of your school. Is climate/culture an organizational or personal issue? How does the climate/culture of the larger school community impact your classroom? What is the role of leadership related to a healthy climate/culture?)
Leadership
Title: Leadership and Wounding: Principles to Live By (A look at emotional/social intelligence research and its applications to how leaders lead from their own wounding and suggestions as to how they can avoid wounding others in their leadership.)
Teacher Evaluation and Professional Growth
Title: Evaluating Teachers for Professional Growth: Creating a Culture of Motivation and Learning (Dan authored a professional book on teacher evaluation that was published by Corwin Press in 2000 with this title – he has made multiple presentations of this material around leadership, teacher evaluation and staff development.)
Technology
Title: Title: Google in Their Pocket: Using Tech to Teach Toward Wisdom - How are we feeling/thinking about tech change? How does using tech as a tool change change how teaching and learning is delivered? What are models that help us move forward? This presentation attempts to embody a 21st Century pedagogical approach and can be done in a one day or two day time frame.
Title: Implementing a 1:1 Laptop Program (Describing how technology has impacted learning and best ways to implement a 1:1 program.)
Title: Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers (What are the free tools out there that can positively impact student learning and teacher productivity?)
Dan began his public speaking career in 1997 and has made multiple presentations (100+) across the U.S. and Canada since that time. He can tailor a presentation to meet your needs involving any of the topics above.
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