Presentations and Speaking
My main focus is the integration of leadership and technology. If you would like to have me speak at your event, please get in touch.
For More about AI Presentations, see here.
Presentations & Speaking
Sharing what I learn is very important to me. Here you will find links and resources from all my presentations. I am available for speaking engagements on any of the topics below:
- How to be a Transformative Principal
- With the leading podcast for educational administrators, Jethro Jones has interviewed over 300 leaders to find the keys to being transformative. This presentation includes insight from the greatest msteainds of our generation seen here.
- It’s not Just Fixed vs. Growth
- Based on the work of Ryan Gottfredson’s Success Mindsets. Understanding the four mindsets (fixed vs. growth, closed vs. open, prevention vs. promotion, inward vs. outward) is a key to transforming your school culture. Learn about interventions to create positive mindsets that can change your school’s identity.
- SchoolX - Creating a school experience to help every child succeed.
- There are many things we can do to make our schools better, and most of them don’t cost any money. Learn how to use the design thinking process to help you make better decisions so that those who come to your school walk know that it is designed for them.
- Student-led 20% Genius Hour Edcamps Synergy Passion Project Time.
- There are a lot of buzzwords out there about giving kids more choice and voice in their education. This presentation demystifies those phrases and helps leaders put into place a game plan for meeting the needs of each student in their building.
- Trauma-informed practices for schools
- In this practical for schools presentation, I speak to the need for trauma-informed practices for edcuators. I teach educators how to ask questions first, and how to have frank conversations without feeling uncomfortable, and how to see students (and staff) as individuals first, meeting their needs individually in a systematic way.
- Using Personality Styles for Effective Communication
- At the root of all problems in schools, we usually find communication (or lack thereof) as a major culprit. In this presentation, I walk leaders and teachers through how to use personality styles to manage staff and students so that the communication is effective and the school can thrive.
- Effective School-Community Communication
- How much should we communicate with our community? How do we help teachers communicate effectively? What is the best way for our staff to invite community members into our school?
- Keeping Kids Safe on Social Media (one geared towards parents and one geared towards educators)
- In this presentation, I speak to the need for staying safe and how parents and educators can support children to make good choices, how to deal with failure, and how to stand up for others.
- More about the Parent-Focused Talk
- Student Driven Learning
- This multi-day workshop is geared towards moving whole systems to a student-driven learning model.
TEDxCSDTeachers
Simplicity: How we increased attendance to 95%, and kept it there for 5 years.
2024
Monthly: AILeader Office Hours - 2nd Tuesday of each month.
January - Webinar - how to eliminate stress in just 10 seconds
March 9-10 - Move Up Workshop for Assistant Principals
June 2-3 - Arizona School Administrators Institute for Excellence - Relationships and Culture
June 9-10 - Arizona School Administrator’s Summer Conference - Hiring in trying times
Juse 11 - Texas Association of School Principals - Going beyond AI Policy (fill-in for Shima)
September 2024 - Buckeye Union School District - AI Policy and Beyond
December 2024 - ALASBO & AML Presentations about AI
2023
March 1-2 - Olympia WA - Move Up Workshop for Assistant Principals
May 1 San Diego - Executive Director’s workshop - How to increase member value
June 26 - Des Moines, IA - How to Prevent Burnout with AI
August 17 - Arizona and North Dakota - Webinar: How to Supercharge your Leadership with AI
September 20 - North Dakota - Innovation Summit
September 27 - Anchorage, AK - AI with Alaska Superintendents
October 1-2 - Vancouver WA - Move Up Workshop for Assistant Principals
October 5-6 - Manchester, New Hampshire - Move Up Workshop for APs
October 10 - Richmond, VA - How to Supercharge your leadership with AI
October 11 - Providence, RI - How to Supercharge your Leadership with AI
October 13 - Augusta, ME - How to Supercharge your Leadership with AI
October 16 - Connecticut - Move Up Workshop for Assistant Principals
October 17 - Connecticut - How to Supercharge your Leadership with AI
2022:
Student Driven Learning - multi-day workshop with Durand-Arkansaw School District in Wisconsin.
March 1-2 - Olympia WA - Move Up Workshop for Assistant Principals
May 1 San Diego - Executive Director’s workshop - How to increase member value
October 1-2 - Vancouver WA - Move Up Workshop for Assistant Principals
Past Presentations
ASCD Symposium on Student Success in the Early Grades 2020 - In this session, Jethro and Colleen Hardiman, principal of a PK-K school in Poughkeepsie New York talk about the importance of play.
ASTE 2019 - Keynote and breakout sessions about The Borg, Designing a K12 Magnet school and the RAVENbot we used to teach about Native Alaskan cultures.
ASTE 2018 - Keynote and breakout sessions about chatbots in education, the 1 thing, and better understanding your students.
CUES 2014 - A new paperless principal presentation focusing on the three stories that helped people by being paperless.
UCET 2014 - 60 Tools in 60 Minutes This presentation focused on giving busy administrators the tools they need to get the job done.
TEDxCSDTeachers - Simple Solutions to Complex Educational Problems This TEDx talk show how we increased attendance to 95% with one simple trick.
UCET 2013 - My first Paperless Principal presentation.
Goals and Scales 2014 - District Inservice presentation with Damon Hargraves.
Work with me
If you would like to partner with me, or invite me to present at a training or conference, please reach out to me via email. I help many districts and schools find simple solutions to their complex problems.