I am available for workshops, speeches, coaching, and consulting. If you've read something I've written you are interested in me structuring a training around, just reach out. Everything can be adjusted to meet the needs of your community, district, school, or event.
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Presentations & Workshops
Customizable Professional Development focused on teacher support, success, and retention. Modes: - Solo Session - Series - Continual (in person trainings supported by coaching, site visits, and digital availability; can include a consulting report on suggested next steps, needs, and strengths) New Teacher Support: - Emergency Kit: Teachers will be given the tools most needed right away to handle behavior, instructional, and professional challenges. - Finding Balance: Skills and strategies for work/life balance and processing the emotional weight and stress of teaching. - Kids These Days: How to understand, connect, and build respect with your students and between your students for a positive, productive class culture Additional Training Options: - Your Teacher Story: An empowering and uplifting session designed to help ground teachers in the positive and rediscover/amplify their passion for teaching through storytelling and sharing strategies - Talking and Teaching about the "Tough" Stuff: In an increasingly polarized education landscape, teachers need to be prepared for how to approach potentially touchy topics in meaningful, affirming, and relevant ways without making the news. - Differentiation, Engagement, and Choice: In solo sessions or together, teachers will be introduced and given time to experience strategies that get kids talking and learning in authentic, inclusive ways. Choose Your Own: Trainings can be created or adapted to meet the specific needs of your staff and students. |
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OR Fill Out This Form to Connect ME: - Licensed teacher, 5-12 with 16 years of teaching experience - Minnesota Teacher of the Year, 2014 - Author of 3 books on teaching (It Won't Be Easy, Raising Ollie, and 50 Strategies for Learning without Screens), plus 3 chapter books for upper elementary focused on student agency, school culture, and difficult conversations, publishing August 2025. - Professor in Teacher Licensure program for Reach University at Oxford Teachers College |