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Joshua Stamper is a middle school Assistant Principal for a North Texas School District, where he's had the amazing opportunity to serve at four campuses in two school districts. Prior to Joshua's current position, he was a classroom art educator and athletic coach working with students in grades 6-8.

In addition to his administrative position, Joshua is a podcaster, author of the upcoming book, Aspire to Lead, leadership coach, education presenter, and Podcast Network Manager for the Teach Better Team.

• ASPIRE model to shift you to the direction you want to go.
• Leadership that allows "fish to climb trees."
• Pitfalls that help leaders "level up" and not burn out.
• Be a relentless "Office Rat"
• Activate everything you do with an identity framework
• Feedback you need to build your plan of success and be who you are meant to be.
• Trauma-informed practices that translate to being an administrator.
• Identify your leadership outreach and control micro moments of leadership.

"I was trying to be as honest as possible. To make it where you want to be, you're going to fail. You're going to have a lot of trials through that process and if you don't dust yourself off and get back up and try again, then obviously you're not going to get where you want to be."

-Joshua Stamper

Joshua Stamper Transcript

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Christine Voigt is a secondary educator and award-winning author from Dallas, Texas. Her background is in English, geography, and life sciences and her specialty is infusing technology across the curriculum. She currently serves as the Director of Curriculum and Instructional Technology at Bishop Dunne Catholic School. She has been recognized at the state and national levels for her contribution to geographic education and has received multiple honors for the books Mapping Our World: GIS in Education and the Our World book series. She holds a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Science in Computer Education and Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas.

• Tech as a meaningful tool to authenticate personalized learning. Incorporating technology every day despite economical disadvantages and different experiences in the classroom.
• Successful shift going paperless or implementing Teach FX with this approach.
• A bottom up approach to prepare kids for the future with these tools.
• Tips to determine meaningful technology for your teachers and students.
• Select technology as methodology and not hardware and software for instruction.
• Assert an integrated approach to leadership to make radical changes.
• A different approach to learning through typical constraints in education.

"We didn't want technology to drive the curriculum. We wanted what was best to teach the kids. We wanted the curriculum to drive the technology. A lot of times people were like, 'We have to go and incorporate all this tech stuff', but it's not about the technology. It's about what is best for teaching and learning."

-Christine Voigt

Christine Voigt Transcript

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Ann Marie Luce is a proud scholar practitioner who believes that our moral imperative as leaders is to build the capacity of others through service, strengths-based support and coaching. As an educator and school principal Ann Marie has served a variety of communities in Canada, China and the United States. Currently Ann Marie is the Head of School at Kehoe-France Southshore in New Orleans, LA. She has recently completed her Educational Doctorate at Gonzaga University where her research focused on how leaders develop their cultural intelligence to lead in a global context.

Ann Marie believes in pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone and taking risks as demonstrated by her decision to leave a stable career in Ontario to take on the challenge of leading a Canadian International School in Beijing, China.

Having taught and led in diverse school communities in Ontario, China and the USA Ann Marie believes that trust, transparency and collaboration are the keys to success for school leadership. As a leader building relationships and developing people are the highest calling of leadership and offer the greatest impact on student learning.

• Expand opportunities to control burn out, whack-a-mole, and traumatic leadership experiences.
• The leadership skill that gets lost in translation.
• How to improve the gap in Leadership Cultural Intelligence?
• Navigate impact and develop the ability to culturally code switch.
• Key components, knowledge, strategy, and action to improve relationships.
• Avoid approaching leadership from a deficit lens.
• Develop Asset-based thinking, as opposed to deficit-based thinking.
• Understand how to lead in a different culture or how culture impacts leadership.

"It's your job to adapt and change and be flexible based on what their cultural norms are, not necessarily what yours are. Those are pieces I learned along the way through my research and experience. How to be a better leader, how to have a deeper understanding of culture, and its impact on my leadership."

-Dr Ann Marie Luce

Dr Ann Marie Luce Transcript

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Michele Mattoon is director of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF), an organization that teaches educators how to improve school culture. She's also president and owner of Coltrain Group, which teaches leadership skills that emphasize collaboration tools (protocols) that foster community and maximize productivity. She has worked with businesses and educational groups around the world, training their employees to work together better. Michele is obsessed with intentionally building healthy, productive communities through the use of specific collaborative structures.

• Experience what it means to be "other" (but not less privileged).
• Belonging is mindset growth to connect purpose and relevance.
• The len to integrate belonging into the culture.
• 3 protocols to ensure everybody has a stake in your success.
• The feedback box of chocolates.
• How to have honest and difficult conversations without being offensive.
• Dive into various learning mindsets with this provocative idea.

"There is no growth mindset without belonging. Communities that we worked with, the teachers who had a strong sense of belonging really took to the work and grew exponentially. A lot of the discussions we had with students became really clear and important. To be able to grow and learn, you have to feel safe."

-Michele Mattoon

Michele Mattoon Transcript

• National School Reform Faculty – Improving student outcomes through collaboration in Critical Friends Group®
• PERTS: Raising Academic Achievement

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, and keynote speaker. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada. She is the co-author of Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever—And What We Can Do About It (released April 2020). Her best-selling I Can Dance book series—which supports the emotional health of children through movement, play, and expression—won the 2017 GOLD International Moonbeam Children's Book Award (Books with Music/Theatrical) and has been adopted by multiple English- and French-language school boards across Canada. Hannah received the City of Ottawa's annual Celebration of People Education Award, which recognized her contributions in developing innovative inclusive programs and resources. As the founder of celebrated experiential discovery programs at Dandelion Dance™ and Tournesol, Hannah has spent over 25 years developing and delivering programs for children and youth. She is a Neufeld course facilitator, delivers professional development services across the country, provides emotional health consulting to schools, and speaks at national and international conferences about the power of bringing more feeling and human connection into the classroom.

• See the emotion behind every challenging behavior.
• RECLAIMING our STUDENTS - book and interactive videos.
• How to avoid influencing stuck roles or developing a negative identity.
• Journaling tips that leave room for the ugly and gratitude to emerge.
• Be in their eyes, call kids to who they are in the future.
• Powerfully grow goodness by feeling the knowledge.
• Teach the "oldest wisdom" to sense humanity.
• Lead students to build capacity to see their own gifts, beauty and human connection.

"You don't change when you know something. I might know people are starving, in another part of the world, but I'm not going to do anything about it unless I feel something. We don't change when we know we change when we feel."

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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FuelEd was founded by Megan Marcus in 2012 on the principle that relationships drive learning. While training as a therapist and serving as a researcher for the book The Social Neuroscience of Education by Dr. Louis Cozolino, Marcus recognized the parallels between the teaching and the counseling professions: both are founded on connection, both could promote human development. She knew she was on to something. Her action: pursue a Master's degree in Education, Policy, and Management from Harvard University to explore whether elements of therapists' professional training could be translated for an educational audience. Shortly after graduation, Marcus incorporated FuelEd as a non-profit organization and launched her organization with a three-day pilot training for 10 teachers at Houston's YES Prep Southwest.

Since then, FuelEd has partnered with over one hundred K-12 schools, organizations, and educator preparation programs across the country to help educators develop the emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and attunement necessary to build secure relationships that drive learning and development.

• Destiny's story in changing lives with new tools and skills sets to overcome adversity.
• Student's behavior is an invitation to consider, not react to.
• Tips to avoid promoting disenfranchising systems you wish to eradicate.
• How to be a whole leader/whole person with the emotional demands of the job.
• Put co-regulation as opposed to self-regulation practices at the center to create an ecosystem of support.
• Megan shares Jedi level skill sets of Empathic listening.
• Learn how to grow emotional intelligence and secure relationships with Fuel Ed.
• Mirror areas you can grow safe emotional intelligence.

"If you have teachers whose cups are full, who are feeling more competent and able to provide that support for the students. Otherwise things come out sideways and you're putting out fires constantly trying to take care of everyone. It's something that creates more efficiency, but it's really hard to get started."

-Megan Marcus

Megan Marcus Transcript

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TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Siobhan Davenport is the President & CEO of Crittenton Services of Greater Washington (CSGW). CSGW works in conjunction with schools to close education and achievement gaps for teen girls to feel empowered through a whole-child, whole-community curriculum. In her previous role as Crittenton's Director of Strategic Partnerships, she built collaborations between schools, nonprofits, and corporations to better meet Crittenton girls' challenges and launched the Declare Equity for Girls: It's Time campaign. Siobhan is an inspiration– the daughter of teen parents who has defied every statistic and now leads a nonprofit empowering younger versions of herself. Additionally, Siobhan serves as a commissioner for the Maryland Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism and sits on the Advisory Council for Ascend at the Aspen Institute. Siobhan holds a master's degree in journalism from American University.

• Understanding barriers that girls face and teaching action advocacy.

• Creating safe space and suspending judgment as an intentional move as an organization.
• The key to building world class culture with one question.
• Reflection for leaders to help navigate and engage at school and at home.
• Serve the whole child by suspending judgment with specific staff training.
• Evolution of a sacred sister circle-hood. "Meet girls where they are, but don't let them stay there."

"Let Teens Lead. As adults, we have wonderful experiences in our lives and we get to a point where we say, 'Do this, do that, do the other.' We forget that teens are the experts in their own lives. They come with so much experience and they know what they need, and we can be a support to them and get the services that they need."

- Siobhan Davenport

Siobhan Davenport Transcript

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Diane Willis has worked diligently in education for 32 years, making a difference in the learning lives of students and teachers. She is a veteran leader, serving 24 years in leadership roles in seven different elementary schools.

Diane believes an instructional leader must be present during learning moments to help discover the next best answers. She believes that professional development is within things done, said, discovered, or planned each day.

• Tips to free yourself up to be available to be where it matters.
• TeachFX isn't "one more thing" it is a way to multiply yourself.
• Transfer ownership to your students to liberate learning.
• Offer high quality, personalized professional development on a daily basis.
• PD is every day with these little gems that you elect along the way.
• How to be present as a leader with the "next best answers" of the day.
• Tips and tricks to not miss moments to support your staff and share goals.
• Schedule the day out and share your improvement plan for optimal team effort.

"The thing is just be there in the moment and professional development is at any moment, any time, any day, a question, any activity, if you've got a focus on what matters most at your school, go out and look for that. Once you find it, celebrate it, talk about it, share it, and it will spread like wildfire."

-Diane Willis

Diane Will Transcript

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Deena Pierott is an Idea Generator and Social Impact Entrepreneur - Founder of the award-winning and nationally recognized STEM+Arts program for youth of color called iUrban Teen and most recently co-founded and launched Black Women in STEM 2.0. Sought-after diversity strategist and international keynote speaker. I've served on several boards and commissions including a Gubernatorial appointment to the Commission on African American Affairs in the State of Washington.

Honored to be acknowledged by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change for Technology Inclusion and by Ebony Magazine on their Power 100 List.

Experience in designing diversity and equity programs including Employee Resource Groups for various organizations

Featured in the following publications:

Forbes, Inc., Government Technology, Essence Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Black Enterprise, Ebony Magazine, Deliver magazine, Portland Business Journal, Geekwire, Colors of Influence, Neurology Now, the Chicago Tribune and on NPR.

• Engaging your families with these simple, genius tips.
• 'Heart work' that engages peer-to-peer partnerships between teachers and students to increase value.
• Teach students to be better advocates for themselves with two essential questions.
• The impact of implicit bias on kids of color.
• How to get your school signed up for iUrban Teen.
• Ways to advocate for yourself without fear of repercussion or need for a "second self?"
• Stopping explicit bias. Ways to respond to both implicit and explicit bias.
• Can't miss conversion on how to share your privilege.

"I want the Ruckus Maker to remember to keep on being that Ruckus Maker. Change doesn't happen by being complicit. Continue having your voice heard when you see change is needed. How do you build up a team of champions around you to create that change? Don't stay average."

-Deena Pierott

Deena Pierott Transcript

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Jean Latting, DrPH, LMSW-IPR, is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant with over 20 years of consulting experience in private and public multicultural organizations. Hundreds of clients in leadership roles have benefitted from her practical solutions for building more rewarding, fulfilled lives at work and home.

Over the last few years, an increased emphasis has been placed on building inclusive organizations. Leaders within fifteen industries have aligned with her to develop quantifiable solutions for addressing "elephant-in-the-room issues."

Jean gained over 35 years of research and teaching experience at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW). Upon retirement, she began consulting and coaching full-time. As President and Founder of Leading Consciously, she challenges her clients to rethink assumptions preventing them from becoming the best they can be as organizations, leaders and individuals.

She grew up on stories of generations of family members rising above adversity and supporting their communities. As a result, her career has followed a similar path toward helping others gain greater insight into the value of an empowered life, agile and resilient leadership, and culturally competent relationships with others.

Jean's personal philosophy: "Helping people 'level up' by maximizing their potential in the workplace, community, and home through self-discovery and by building supportive environments."

• Living with a hole in the floor teaches empathize.
• Advocate for the underserved by challenging mindsets and beliefs of our faculty.
• Find the strength to "play chicken" in a room.
• Learn "You can't scare me into silence" when presenting valuable information.
• How leaders learn to live out the metaphor and walk a mile leadership
• The question that unblocks the skill of empathy.
• Tips to get comfortable in uncomfortable conversations about race.
• The school of hard knocks helps develop courage to touch the snake.
• Actionable tips to get people to change without isolating anyone.
• Eliminate systematic barriers that kept parents from coming to the school with a simple knock.

"Everybody needs to know that it's uncomfortable and it's okay. If we want the students to grow and learn, as teachers and educators, if we stay in our comfort zone, we're not role modeling to kids how to do something that's hard. Let's conquer this thing. Let's be role models to kids that even though it's hard work, we can do this thing. It's okay to be uncomfortable. Step one is to acknowledge that and to be willing to bear the discomfort. Step two is to have a rule of non-shaming. If it's an uncomfortable situation, somebody's going to say something horribly offensive and stupid. Those who know that are going to sit around snickering to themselves or cutting eyes at one another. Those who don't know it are going to be oblivious. To praise calling out, I object to. I say, call them into the community."

-Dr Jean Letting

"Some people literally cannot leave themselves and put themselves in somebody else's shoes."

-Dr Jean Letting

Dr Jean Latting Transcript

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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