Sometimes folks ask me: what topics can I pick from when I have you out to my district to lead PD? At the time of this writing, I've serviced hundreds of schools and organizations in every US state, but for some reason I've never created an organized answer to that question on my website.
Without further ado, here's the “menu” of DSJ PD topics.
The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own
My latest bestseller explores ten high-yield, high-enjoyment strategies for cultivating the Five Key Beliefs beneath student motivation. If you've got educators feeling the pain of student disengagement, demotivation, or lack of buy-in, ownership, or enjoyment, this is the material you want me to focus on with your group.
I can deliver the overall message and content of this book in a variety of formats:
- Keynotes (60 or 90 minutes)
- Workshops (2 to 3 hours)
- Single one-hour sessions
In all formats, I'm mindful of creating experiences that give teachers of all stripes…
- Stronger, clearer thinking on matters of student motivation.
- Straightforward practices to put that better thinking into action.
- New ways of being the educators we got into this job to be.
If you're looking for more of a deep dive on specific concepts within the book — maybe you're considering having me out for a conference day or you'd like to explore a 1-2 hour Zoom workshop — you might want something more focused than an entire book's worth of concepts.
These are specific 1-2 hour sessions I can lead on student motivation:
- How to Improve Teacher Credibility: Classroom Management Issues
- How to Improve Teacher Credibility: Building Relationships without Giving Up Your Prep Period
- How to Improve Teacher Credibility: Bell-to-bell Instruction, Without the Pressure and Stress
- Beyond “Because I Said So”: Cultivating Value through Fun, Creative Mini-Sermons
- The Rainbow of Why: Brainstorming How Our Content Areas Matter to US so They Can Matter to THEM
- “Why Do We Have to Do This?”: Activities that Help Students Answer This For Themselves
- Valued Within: A Monthly Classroom Activity that Helps Students Learn to Value Learning for Themselves
- “I Studied but I Still Failed”: How to Help Students Work Smart, Not Just Hard
- Getting Past “I Can't”: Practical Methods for Improving Student Efficacy
- The Cloudy Mountaintop: Defining Success With and For Students, Early, Wisely, and Often
- The Struggle is Normal: Crafting a Classroom Where Students Are Challenged and Safe
These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most
My other bestselling book covers six areas of competency relevant to teachers of all subjects. If you're seeking improvements in literacy or mastery outcomes in your school, this is the topic set for you.
As with my other book, I have experience delivering the message and content of These 6 Things in a variety of formats, including:
- Keynotes (60 or 90 minutes)
- Workshops (2 to 3 hours)
- Single one-hour sessions
Just like with my Will to Learn student motivation material in the section above, I can also break the These 6 Things material down into a variety of smaller session options. Here's the menu for that:
- Ya Gotta Know Stuff: How Knowledge-Rich Classrooms Make Higher Order Thinking Possible
- Let Them Argue: Increasing the Quantity and Quality of Student Argument Across the School Day
- Pop-Up Debates: A Simple Tool for Building Student Confidence, Joy, and Content Mastery
- Read Purposefully and Often: How and Why to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Student Reading in All Classes
- Write Purposefully and Often: How and Why to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Student Writing in All Classes
- Beyond the Fear of Public Speaking: How and Why to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Student Speaking in All Classes
To set up a 15-minute phone call with me to explore having me out to your school, be in touch here.
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