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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
Today's students are the most distracted generation in history and they're sitting in classrooms right now. Educators will uncover powerful techniques to compete for student attention and win.
Ideal for: Full faculty keynote, curriculum teams, instructional coaches,
new teacher cohorts.
Developing Critical Thinkers: Process Over Product
In an education system that rewards right answers and punishes risk educators are challenged to flip that model by shifting instructional practices to prioritize the creative process, build student agency, and develop thinkers who can navigate an increasingly unpredictable world.
Ideal for: Elementary and secondary faculties, accelerated learning teams, curriculum directors.
The Atypical School Leader
The schools that will thrive in the next decade will not be led by managers of past practice, they will be led by change agents who challenge the status quo, build adaptive cultures, and lead from a vision of future greatness.
Ideal for: Principals, assistant principals, headmasters, district leadership teams, aspiring administrators.
Instructional Excellence in the
Age of AI
When technology accelerates, the most important leadership skill isn't knowing the tools, it's knowing people. School building and classroom leaders build design curriculum and instruction with an intentional vision that keeps teachers and students at the center of learning, even as the tools around them rapidly evolve.
Ideal for: Curriculum directors, instructional coaches, building administration, classroom teachers.
Leveraging Both Intelligences:
Artificial and Actual
AI isn't coming to education... it's already here. Take the next giant step and develop practical frameworks for using AI to deepen learning, not bypass it, including strategies for avoiding the AI Infinite Loop and keeping humans at the center of teaching whie maximizing the power of new digital tools.
Ideal for: Administrators, curriculum teams, tech integration coaches, faculties/committees navigating AI policy.
Help! My Faculty is
Stuck in a Trench...
Cognitive entrenchment (aka "that's the way we've always done it") is such a dangerous force in education today. Administrators and teacher leaders practice the language, tools, and courage to challenge entrenched thinking and build more adaptive professional cultures.
Ideal for: Administrative teams, teacher leaders, professional learning communities.
Feedback from Attendees:
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
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