2022 TEACH BETTER CONFERENCE

In this session instructional leaders will define their campus/district coaching plan, create role clarity & clear expectations for instructional coaching. Participants will leave with a customized coaching framework and plan that meets the needs of their campus/district needs.

In this session, we share our three-part system on how to get your students to learn from experts outside the classroom, become experts through PBL, and teach as experts to authentic audiences. We share practical strategies, resources, and templates that make it easy to integrate. We blend research, classroom experiences, and best practices to inspire and guide you to amplify student voices. Whatever grade, you'll find inspiration and ideas that will engage your students in an unforgettable way.

"Rizo" shares an inspiring message with adults on Social Emotional LOVE & the competencies, as well as the importance of building positive climates in their classrooms, connecting with their students' hearts before teaching their academic minds.
Bringing educators of all levels together to help children grow through workshops on pouring LOVE, care of their own SELF, and being the love their students need.

Joseph enters a classroom, enraged.  He’s just been made fun of by another student in the hallway, an altercation that turned into pushing and name-calling. He feels that he has no choice but to react.

Can you imagine if Joseph had the skills to use self-control, and avoid the negative consequences of that anticipated behavior.

In today’s schools the stressors of daily life can cause students and educators to feel frustrated, overwhelmed and the loss of control. In this session we will show you how students can learn to recognize, understand and self-regulate their emotions.

Every math teacher’s worst nightmare: “When am I ever going to need this?!” Nightmares no more–it’s time to Get Real. Learn how a project based approach can take your math class from seemingly pointless procedures to powerful projects. Ignite and excite your math students with real, relevant and rigorous mathematics and never hear that question again! Together let’s co-construct a resource bank for all math teachers and walk away with a framework to show our students just how real math can be!

Learn how to use Dr. Gary Chapman's 5 Love Languages to define your internal desire to be cared for and appreciated. With the knowledge of the five love languages, you will in turn be able to have better and more meaningful connections with your family, colleagues, and students. 

This hands on session will introduce teachers to the interactive tool Genially and show them how they too can take a single level of a grid and turn it into an escape style game. Attendees will see an example of what is possible with Genially and will get practice using the basic features of Genially to begin their journey of making their grids more interactive. Teachers will have supported work time to create their first escape room and will leave with access to a variety of escape templates.

You remember your favorite teacher, don’t you?

How about your least favorite teacher?

Some were good…

Some were not so good…

Some were REALLY good…

And, some were just plain AWFUL!

Teachers have remarkable impacts on everyone. YOUR students deserve to have the best teacher in front of them at all times. In You Are #1, stories and science merge in order to create an understanding about how the power of a teacher stays with everyone for the rest of their lives. See why YOU remember those individuals from YOUR days in school and learn how YOU can become the #1 best teacher and role model for each and every one of your students who learns from YOU every single day.

In YOU ARE #1, Blair and Jetter outline research-based characteristics and brain research to explain how teachers SHOULD be and how they WOULD WANT to be in order to improve education EVERYWHERE for all eternity!