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Nobody actually put it so concisely. I’ve been waiting for something to make the pennies drop and I feel like now I’ve finally got something to go back to my principal with. It’s what I’ve been waiting for.
Rachel, Queensland
The presentation was fantastic. You always have me thinking and reflecting on what I can do to elevate my teaching. It definitely changes my approach.
Kristen, Missouri
My mind is going in so many great creative ways based on what I’m hearing from @marcisseks. It will allow me to stay true to who I am as an educator and still meet admin expectations. Where’s the barb?
Patty, New York
KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS THAT RAISE THE BAR
Marc designs every engagement around your school's specific needs, culture, and goals. Whether you need a 60-minute keynote to open a conference or a multi-day immersive workshop series, the experience will be disruptive enough to matter and practical enough to implement right away.
TOPICS:
Winning the Battle for
Student Engagement
There's a moment Marc recreates in almost every session - the difference between a hook and a hook with a barb. One gets attention. The other holds it. The room sees it instantly, and something shifts:
This is what's been missing.
Drawing on his book Captivate and three decades in schools, Marc gives educators the visual language and practical tools to design lessons that genuinely overcome everything competing for their students' attention... and win.
Ideal for: Full faculty PD, curriculum teams, instructional coaches, new teacher cohorts.
Developing Critical Thinkers: Process Over Product
We've built a system that rewards right answers and punishes risk. Students have adapted by playing it safe and doing exactly what's required - nothing more. Marc challenges educators to flip that model entirely:
Shift from measuring product to honoring process, to build classrooms where real thinking is visible, valued, and celebrated. Teachers leave with concrete strategies and a new lens for what learning looks like when it's actually working.
​Ideal for: Elementary and secondary faculties, accelerated learning teams, curriculum directors.
The Atypical School Leader
The schools that will matter in the next decade won't be led by managers of past practice. They'll be led by leaders willing to ask the uncomfortable questions, challenge the systems they inherited, and build toward a future they can actually be proud of. This session is a leadership challenge disguised as professional development. It is not for administrators who are comfortable where they are. It is for the ones who know they could be doing something greater — and are ready to start.
Ideal for: Principals, assistant principals, headmasters, district leadership teams, aspiring administrators.
Instructional Excellence in the
Age of AI
When technology accelerates, the most dangerous leadership response is to let it lead. Marc helps instructional leaders build the vision, the culture, and the pedagogical clarity that keeps teachers and students at the center of learning, regardless of what the tools look like next year.
The leaders who thrive in the AI era won't be the ones who knew the most platforms. They'll be the ones who never forgot that people are the point.
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Ideal for: Curriculum directors, instructional coaches, building administrators, classroom teachers.
Leveraging Both Intelligences:
Artificial and Actual
AI is already in your classrooms, invited or not. The question is whether your school has the framework to use it in ways that deepen learning rather than bypass it.
Marc gives faculties the practical tools to leverage AI as an accelerator for real teaching and avoid the traps, including the AI Infinite Loop where the bot creates the assignment, completes the assignment, and grades the assignment.
The most important takeaway is to keep human thinking where it belongs: at the center of everything.
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Ideal for: Administrators, curriculum teams, tech integration coaches, faculties navigating AI policy.
Help! My Faculty is
Stuck in a Trench...
"That's the way we've always done it" is the most expensive sentence in education. It costs students. It costs teachers. It costs leaders who can see what's possible and can't get their people there.
Marc gives administrators and teacher leaders the language, the frameworks, and the permission to name cognitive entrenchment when they see it and the practical tools to build the kind of professional culture where growth is the expectation, not the exception.
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Ideal for: Administrative teams, teacher leaders, professional learning communities.
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