Keynotes, Seminars, Workshops, P.D. Trainings, Thought-Leader Dialogues,
Leadership Coaching, Consulting, and Dialogue Facilitation.
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Comments and feedback about our work and events from:
Leaders in Learning - Recent Attendees - Teachers - Parents - Event Organizers
Orientation:
The main impediments to our educational progress are not innate deficits in our children, they are the misorienting and misguiding mental models through which we experience our children. Therefore, the most cost-optimal, high ROI way to improve our children’s education is to focus our efforts on changing those mental models. Our live events are designed to ‘reboot’ the mental lenses through which educators and parents understand and experience learning and their mission and purpose as educators and parents. After all, how we think about ‘learning’ and our ‘mission and purpose’ affects everything about how we understand and experience children (as well as how and what we are trying to ‘put into’ and ‘bring forth’ from them). Learning Stewards and the Children of the Code Project creates custom, high-impact learning events that conduct parents and educators into realizing the key distinctions necessary for such a reboot. Our events use video clips from our 100+ interviews with world leading scientists and scholars, as well as rich multimedia slides and key point participant dialogues, to create the conditions that lead to understanding and, more importantly, deeply realizing these distinctions.
Professional Learning Events:
Keynotes and Talks (30 to 90 minutes)
S.C. State Education and Business Conference
“The most powerful professional development experience I have ever had. This was truly an awakening for me!” - Julie Colley Lowery, Education Specialist, Alabama State Department of Education
District Convocation
Themes include: “We Are Who We Learn to Be“, “Stewarding the Health of our Children’s Learning“, “Children of the Code“, “The Code and the Challenge of Learning to Read It“, “Mind-Shame: The Dark Heart of Learning Difficulties“, “understanding and preventing acquired learning disabilities” and other topics related to our Key Memes. We have presented keynote addresses at the annual conferences of the Georgia School Superintendents Association, Nebraska State School Psychologists Association, South Carolina Education and Business Summit, Scientific Learning’s National Circle of Learning, the Florida State Literacy Coalition, The Learning Disabilities Symposium of the Winston San Antonio, C.J. Davidson Memorial Lecture Series for The Scottish Rite Learning Center of West Texas, Burnaby School District (Canada),and many others. We have been a featured presenter at conferences and events including the Science Network’s ‘Science of Educating’, the International Dyslexia Association (main international conference and numerous state conferences),United Way, Rotary International, the Center for Quality Leadership, the National School Mental Health Association, the National Center for Family Literacy, Lindamood-Bell, ACE of Florida, the Michigan Council for Exceptional Children, and many others.
Workshops and Dialogues (300 to 400 minutes)
District Leadership Seminar
“The training was extraordinary! Six months later, conversations are still occurring around thoughts from that event. It was the easiest and best event we have done!” - Mary Ashe, Coordinator, Project Enlightenment, North Carolina
In-Depth Teacher Workshops
Our workshops and dialogues use the ‘big picture’ framework of our talks and seminars to travel deeper into the details of our Key Memes while extending the opportunity for audience participation through thought experiments, demonstrations, dialogue and detailed Q&A sessions.
We have conducted over 60 seminars and workshops for colleges of education, state departments of education, school districts, schools, and literacy organizations.
Thought-Leader Dialogues
Community Learning Events:
These events are for organizations involved in improving the life trajectories of children, adults, and communities.
Rotary Keynote Address
“This was fabulous and I keep referring back to it! My 13 year-old son loved it too! We thought it was just totally enlightening. Our light bulbs went on!” – H Nelson, Parent,Wichita,KS
See “Comments” for samples of the feedback we’ve received.
Costs and Requirements:
Learning Stewards is a non-profit organization. We can occasionally secure donor support to help reduce the costs of our events. If you can’t afford our the fees, but can make a good case to our donors about your proposed event, let us know and we will work with you.
1) Fees (2013) : $2,200 - $3800 (U.S. Dollars) $2200.00 is for short keynotes. 2-3 hour seminars are $2600.00. The 6-hour in-depth workshop is $3,800. These fees do not include travel expenses, which vary according to how a proposed event fits with existing travel plans. We offer a 10% discount for additional same-day and/or next-day events.
2) Equipment: LCD projector, PA system
Optional resources we offer in support of our events:
We can provide local organizers with a number of optional resources, including customized web pages, on-line registration systems, printable flyers, e-mail templates, and radio and television promotional spots. Fees for optional packages are at our cost and range from $250 to 500.00
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