Engagements

I will be presenting an all-day workshop at the Region 19 Educational Service Center in El Paso Texas. If you are available in the El Paso, please say hello.

The workshop will be: Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Keep Students in School. The workshop focuses on the U.S. Department of Education’s acknowledged successful strategies that I helped developed with the National Dropout Prevention Center based at Clemson University and the best practices that I have seen in schools around the world. The strategies have been field-tested, are research-based, and data-driven.

I will be speaking to about 100 school personnel about “Creating a School Culture that Embraces Learning” and embracing change. The audience will be a mixture of social workers, counselors, administrators, nurses, physical educators, etc from both K-8 and High schools. I will then visit three high schools that have agreed to participate in the pilot. With your direction we would conduct focus groups/interviews with students, faculty and parents to identify the issues they are facing before the school year ends. In addition, I will visit community leaders – May 4th and deliver a 2 hour general presentation.

I will be delivering workshops in Richmond, Virginia on July 14th and 15th. There will be two breakout sessions dealing with “Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Keep Students in School” on July 14th. At the luncheon on July 15th, I will be presenting a session on “Building America’s Global Competitiveness: From The Schoolhouse to The Workplace.” President Obama addressed both issues in his address in Washington, DC.

I will be presenting several workshops for the West Fargo, North Dakota and surrounding school districts. The workshops will be about Building America’s Competitiveness: From the Schoolhouse to the Workplace and Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Prevent School Dropouts.

My co-author, Dr. Tony Thacker and I will be presenting material from our two books, From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do and Creating School Cultures That Embrace Learning: What Successful Leaders Do at Alabama State University’s Southern Normal Campus at Brewton, Alabama. The theme of the conference is The Art of Leadership.

I will be presenting a pre-forum workshop on Sunday, April 19, 2009 @ 1-4 PM dealing with the 15 Effective Strategies entitled, “Helping Students Graduate: Tool and Strategies to Help Students Stay in School.” The pre-forum workshop will specifically address the Native American Dropout Rate. Native Americans have the highest dropout rate in the Nation.

I will be presenting several workshops in Oklahoma City…

I will be delivering two speeches to in West Fargo, North Dakota on March 10th to two discrete groups.  One session will be to the business community and will be entitled, Building North Dakota’s Global Competitiveness:  From the Schoolhouse to the Workplace. The presentation deals with the need to build World Class Schools – schools which are as globally competitive as businesses are.  As Thomas Friedman has pointed out in The World Is Flat “a student in Bangalore India is now as globally competitive as a student in Bangor, Maine.”  If we wish to maintain any economic advantage, we need to create schools that prepare students to thrive in the 21st century.