FRIDAYS · CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Rick Dahlgren
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS · ARCHITECT OF TIME TO TEACH®
Rick built Time To Teach® on one conviction: teaching succeeds where punishment fails. Over thirty years and 400,000+ educators, he refined the system schools now know by its named tools — Refocus, Teach-To's, the diffusers, the authoritative middle path — and he still delivers it the way it was designed: practiced live, in the room, until it's yours. Teachers leave his Fridays with fewer warnings to give and more minutes to teach.
Front-row energy — thirty years in, still the best seat in PD.
SATURDAYS · ENGAGEMENT & MOTIVATION
Eric Combs
2006 OHIO TEACHER OF THE YEAR · WHITE HOUSE-HONORED · SMITHSONIAN AMBASSADOR · CREATOR OF THE ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM
Eric teaches the program he created: a Saturday built on the four questions every student silently asks — How do I feel? Am I interested? Is this important? Can I do this? — answered with named, ready-Monday techniques from human graphing to Matrix Planning. A former state Teacher of the Year honored at the White House, Eric's sessions are famous for one thing: teachers doing the strategies, not watching them.
A full house with Eric — hundreds strong, and every hand up.
Honored at the White House.
DENVER · CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Dr. Johnny Alvarado
AUTHOR · DOCTORATE · RECENTLY RETIRED ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT
Dr. Alvarado spent his career in the very Central Valley districts where Time To Teach's landmark results were documented — he led in the rooms those numbers came from. An author with a doctorate and decades of district leadership, he brings the administrator's view teachers rarely get: what actually changes a building, and how to make your classroom the proof.