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Dec 30, 2020

Curtis Zimmerman has worked two decades as a keynote speaker and consultant, he’s had the honor of developing deep relationships with companies including Kroger, Proctor and Gamble, McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Duke Energy, Bacardi and Universal Orlando Resorts—along with The United States Air Force and hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. He also loves working with non-profit organizations and teachers and faculty to give back to the people who have had the biggest impact on his life.

If you're tired of boring virtual conversations and you're ready to get your people excited and invigorated, give him a call. Currently, he is taking all of his experience and putting it together to bring something that nobody else is doing through a hybrid virtual keynote that he’s been sharing with corporations, universities, and school districts. Think TED meets Zoom Meetings! Let's make your next virtual meeting memorable.

 

Show Highlights

  • “Brag on it” and more useful tools for leadership
  • Take 1-dimensional Zoom and turn it into a 3-dimensional experience
  • How to weave Zany and Fun into opportunities while we lead 
  • Resume vs Real-a-me
  • Join the Virtual School Assembly
  • Find and feed the passion of your learning community
  • Fail successfully
  • Figure out how to make a ruckus in your style
  • Doing the activity is different than explaining the activity

 

“I may not be the best dancer in the world, but it doesn't matter. I'm enjoying myself. My passion is breathing into my dancing and that's what I want to see. Not your technique, your passion, because passion supersedes natural ability.  I want my kids to be passionate. I want my staff to be passionate. I can teach you anything. But the passion that you bring is what really drives the momentum into whatever learning you have...I encourage everyone that's listening to think about how am I going to create a ruckus during my next interaction in my way, in my style.”

-Curtis Zimmerman

 

“Failing is an event, not a person. The only way you're going to learn to juggle is if you're willing to drop the ball”

-Curtis Zimmerman

 

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SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

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Dec 23, 2020

Dr. Vernita Glenn-White is the CEO of Glenn-White Global Solutions and Founder of Empowered Educators Academy © , a company that empowers educators, leaders, and trainers to reach their next level by using their voice and influence to create their own platforms and pathways! Dr. Vernita is a former K-12 mathematics educator, Academic Instructional Coach, and served as a District Specialist for the Office of School Transformation. Dr. Vernita has been an advisor and strategist for leaders from Principals to Superintendents to Universities. Dr. Vernita has used her skills to transition into higher education as a college professor, a national speaker, published author and world traveler. Dr. Vernita now uses her K-20 experience of combining personal empowerment with professional development to shift the perspective of what it means to educate for transformation and impact the training and development industry at a higher level!

 

Show Highlights

  • Form boundaries and saying “no” 
  • The dangers in making assumptions
  • Unpacking everybody's biases to grow emotional intelligence
  • Three dynamics of Ed leadership (Educational Leadership)
  • What a leader needs to do outside of being the manager
  • Leadership content knowledge
  • Dig into culturally responsive curriculums, leadership and next steps 
  • The blur the lines between social justice and multicultural education

 

“The first thing I say before you can lead your staff, you need to sit down and identify any bias or your cultural phrase because we all have them. I don't know where we got this from that it is bad to have a bias. We all have them. It's just, what are you doing with it when it comes up, that's where the problem starts.” 

-Dr. Vanita Glenn-White

 

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  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

 

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Dec 16, 2020

Alexs has had a diverse career bringing an innovative eye and heart to the areas of education, literature, business and race. He is an award winning author and a passionate proponent for the renovation of the American public education system by infusing our schools with a focus on the innocence and goodness of their marginalized students, especially students of color. This theme, above all others is interwoven in all of his  literary works as well as his consultative efforts with public and private organizations.

Given an opportunity–one that few writers, scholars and intellectuals are given–to bring an idea that emanated from theoretical work into actual practice, he created the innovative and successful Innocent Classroom™. It brings common sense, empathy, redemptive energy and honesty together and into the classroom.

His  dynamic approach to working with teachers, an approach that enables us to ultimately understand and empathize more effectively with our students, has been honed through more than fifteen years as a energetic and passionate professor. And the professional and effective presentation of his work belies experience in the private sector.

But at the core of this work is a deep belief that our children can be given a quality education in spite of the dire realities both within schools and in the world around them.

 

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  • Eliminate racial stereotypes in schools through authentic relationships 
  • Powerful Pivot moments that matter 
  • Practical changes to make help to “free” your learning community
  • Get children to drop involuntary stereotypes that construct their realities 
  • Find the source of behavior with strategies to embrace and engage the child 
  • Alexs provides a powerful way to “see your children for the first time.” 
  • Avoid common adult phrase that misrepresent a child
  • “The only valid resistance to Innocent Classroom is if you don't care.”

“I think first of all, it's recognizing that our children are burdened in an enormous way with the negative ideas, iconography, narrative, and images that they're confronted with. And that is bestowed on them as they walk out into the world all the time. One of the first things that we do with educators in our training is to ask them, what does America tell you about students of color, who are sitting in your class? And that list? I mean, we were just asking for one word adjectives at that point. And that list is a horrible, horrible list. Even the positive things don't look good in that list.”

-Alexs Pate

 

“I'm saying in the case of young kids of color, you're not looking at the real problem. The real problem is almost wholly contained in that child's life. That child came to you with challenges, and then I'm suggesting the American culture has put on them. Your job is to sort of sweep all that away and find that true child. What happens is when a teacher sees a child's goodness, they're good. The thing for which all else has done, they see something different. They see a desire to be cared for. They'd see a desire to feel connected. They see a desire to feel like I belong somewhere to be seen or to be heard, to feel safe.”

-Alexs Pate

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile



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Dec 9, 2020

Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson is an educational and racial equity strategist that is deeply committed to the studies of culture; innovation; equity and adult development. Since earning her master’s degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Brandeis University, and her doctorate from Harvard’s Educational Leadership Doctorate (Ed.L.D.), Dr. Amante-Jackson has honed her knowledge to transform organizations, nonprofits and schools on issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Dr. Amante-Jackson currently serves as the President/Founder of The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP) and DCCP (DEEP Corporate Consulting Partners) where she supports superintendents, teachers, principals, non profit leaders, corporations, commercial real estate and boards to achieve equitable culture and to systematically dismantle oppression. Additionally, Dr. Amante-Jackson serves at the Tri-Chair to the RIDES Project, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. With RIDES, Dr. Amante-Jackson supports systemic and school based cultural change and coaching for districts, nationally.

 

Show Highlights

  • The gap between diversity and inclusion is as wide as the Grand Canyon, but a bridge exists
  • Proven frameworks, roadmaps and data to measure impact paired with implicit bias training 
  • Make your learning community feel championed for and communicate areas of marginalization they experience
  • “Belonging” is actually the sweet spot for this pandemic
  • Sit successfully in the uncertainty with these practical tools that work both virtually and in person
  • Diversity, belonging, inclusion, and equity, DBIE has to be the table and you sit everything on top of
  • Why urgency with the absence of competency is harmful

 

“Belonging is the greatest thing that closes the gap. Please know that gap didn't arrive in one school year and it's not going to go away in one school year. Your commitment to belonging will continue to bring your community together, which is what you will need to close the gap one day to do culturally responsive teaching. “



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ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

 

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Dec 4, 2020

David Price, OBE, is a global thought leader, learning futurist and author, specialising in how organisations learn, innovate and make themselves fit for the future.

He is a highly sought-after public speaker, entertaining and educating audiences around the world, in business, education and the public sector. His most recent book, OPEN: How We'll Work, Live And Learn In The Future has been an Amazon best-seller since its publication and has recently been translated into Russian. 

David is also a highly experienced trainer, having spent 20 years running workshops and masterclasses in people development, organisational learning, innovation strategies, as well as a host of training events for schools, colleges and universities.

In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for services to education, by Her Majesty The Queen.

He consults and advises corporations, governments and education leaders on preparing for future shifts in work, leisure and the digitally connected world. He is passionate about helping people fulfill their true potential, most notably by tackling the global epidemic of disengagement - in the workplace, and in formal education.

As a former professional musician, and a native of Jarrow in the North-East of England, David is used to travelling to find work, spending two-thirds of the year on the road. When he isn't moving, he's to be found in Leeds, in the UK.

   

Show Highlights

  • “Playing without the music” can transform learning opportunities and unleash the gifts of your students
  • Communities are outperforming bureaucracies:Foster innovation because innovation comes from the users and 
  • Don’t inadvertently snuff out the inherent creativity because of poor leadership. Be brave enough to create a culture about autonomy and agency
  • Rethink learning so it develops a pedagogy of agency 
  • Automatic competition impedes open collaboration and innovation in a community

“I think with COVID, it's really heightened the need, now that people have to be creative, to make things, whether that's sourdough bread or craft beer, there is something in us, which is now coming to the fore. The really interesting part of it now, partly through necessity because sadly, a lot of people in the UK are losing their jobs and they're thinking, well, what should I do? ... we need to prepare our young people as much to be kind of entrepreneurs.”

“One is how do we create an internal culture for educators so that they feel that they can be creative. Part two is how do we create the right kind of culture and environment for our students so that they feel that it isn't about getting the right answer, but it's about being, being creative and making and producing things.” 

 

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ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

 

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile



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