NAEA 2015 Keynote Speakers
2015 Conference- National Alternative Education Association
Saturday, March 28th (Opening Morning Session)
Dave Burgess - Teach Like a PIRATE
Speaker Bio:
Dave is an award-winning teacher from San Diego, highly sought after professional development speaker, and the author of Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform the Way You Look at Your Role as an Educator. He has been voted a faculty standout for 17 consecutive years in categories such as Most Entertaining, Most Energetic, and Most Dramatic. Using a unique combination of magic and humor, he will reignite your passion for the profession and show you exactly how to make school an amazing place that has students wanting to knock down the walls to get in.
Dave Burgess is a teacher from San Diego, California and a professional magician specializing in stand-up comedy magic. He was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School. He has been voted a faculty standout for 17 consecutive years in categories such as Most Entertaining, Most Energetic, and Most Dramatic. He specializes in teaching hard-to-reach, hard-to-motivate students with techniques that incorporate showmanship and creativity. At a recent ceremony in Washington, D.C., he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. He is the co-author of P is for PIRATE: Inspirational ABC’s for Educators and the New York Times best-selling author of Teach Like a PIRATE which has sparked an educational revolution all over the world.
About This Session:
Teach Like a PIRATE has spawned a full-scale revolution in the educational world and has inspired teachers from all over the globe to achieve new levels of excellence in their schools and classrooms. This program is your chance to experience the one-of-a-kind presentational style of unbelievable intensity and outrageous energy that has transfixed audiences at packed venues across the nation.
Join New York Times Best-Selling author Dave Burgess for a high-energy, entertaining, and inspirational keynote that will transform the way you look at your role as an educator. Learn how to dramatically increase student engagement, design wildly creative lessons, and build a course that is a life-changing experience for your students.
PIRATE
- Passion: Infusing your teaching with content passion, professional passion and personal passion
- Immersion: Your ability to completely give yourself up to the moment and fully “be” with your students
- Rapport: Making students feel important by developing relationships with them
- Ask and Analyze: Ask great questions and always analyze your situation
- Transformation: Make your classroom and teaching exceptional and worth noticing
- Enthusiasm: Light fires under your students with zeal for education
http://www.daveburgessconsulting.com/
Email: daveburgessconsulting@gmail.com
Website: http://daveburgess.com/
Twitter: @burgessdave
Saturday, March 28th (Luncheon Speaker)
Dr. Crystal A. Kuykendall - Bringing Out the BEST in ALL Students
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Crystal A. Kuykendall is a gifted and gracious public speaker, administrator and educator. Audiences connect instantly with her high energy, charm, charismatic delivery and moving messages. She not only facilitates self-analysis, she inspires personal and organizational change, growth and powerful results in personal and professional pursuits. Crystal's speeches reflect her own unique background replete with personal victories and many professional responsibilities. A former school teacher, University Instructor (at Seton Hall University & Montclair State University), and Executive Director of the National Alliance of Black School Educators, she has also been Director of Urban & Minority Relations for the National School Boards Association and Director of Marketing for RLA, Inc. as well as Director of the Citizens Training Institute of the National Committee for Citizens in Education. She holds a Doctorate in Educational Administration, law degree & life memberships in NCNW, the Natational Urban League, NAACP & Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She also received the Honorary Doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, in 2002. A member of the D.C. Bar Association, she has been President and General Counsel of her own firm, Kreative and Innovative Resources for Kids, Inc. (K.I.R.K.) since 1989. Appointed by U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, to the National Advisory Council on Continuing Education, she served as Council Chairperson from 1979-1981.Author of 4 books, including the highly acclaimed national best seller, "From Rage to Hope," and recently published "Dreaming of a PHAT Century," she is Mother of 5, mentor, school & church volunteer and the ultimate "Merchant of Hope" for she enriches the lives of thousands.
About This Session:
In her session, Bringing Out the BEST in ALL Students, Crystal will give some insight on the causes of under performance, low achievement, poor discipline and apathy in many "at-risk" and African American youth. She will also share strategies to enhance significantly the ability of educators to meet the academic and social needs of these students and facilitate their success.
Email: ckuykendal@aol.com
Website: http://crystalkuykendall.com/
Twitter: @merchantradio
Sunday, March 29th (Opening Morning Session)
Christian Moore - The Resilience Breakthrough
Speaker Bio:
Christian Moore is a renowned author, speaker, and licensed clinical social worker. Christian spent his childhood on the streets near Washington, D.C. Due to learning disabilities, school counselors informed him that college was not an option. However, Christian became a well-respected recipient of a master's degree in social work. As a social worker in education, youth corrections, and a homeless program, Christian saw the need for a new approach and created WhyTry. He now consults with thousands of school districts on lowering dropout rates, improving school climate, preventing bullying, and closing the achievement gap by teaching social and emotional education.
About This Session:
Christian's session is titled "The Resilience Breakthrough." Resiliency is something we're all born with: from the homeless person on the street to the Harvard business grad. Most of us just haven't learned how to tap into what's already inside of us. In his presentation, Christian Moore draws on his work as a learning disabled social worker from an inner-city neighborhood to help explain why some people are able to thrive under any circumstance while others crumble from small challenges. He introduces audiences to the four sources of resiliency - street, relational, resource, and rock bottom - and shows how anyone can "bounce back" by tapping into these resources
Email: bruce@whytry.org
Website: http://www.whytry.org/index.php/christian-keynote/158-christian-moore
Phone: 801-885-8708
Sunday, March 29th, Lunch Keynote Session
12:15 - 2:30 OM - Champion's Ballroom A-E
Lisa Bell
Lisa Bell serves as the Neabsco representative on the Prince William County
School Board in Prince William County, Virginia. She is a case manager for
“One on One Care” in Stafford, Virginia facilitating services for adults and
children with disabilities through the Medicaid Waiver Program. Lisa has overcome an upbringing of violence, sexual abuse, blended family, and learning
disabilities. Her continued life-long desire is to advocate for those individuals
who lack a voice by empowering, educating, and encouraging them to fulfill
their own dreams by taking charge of their own lives, thereby opening doors
for their future.
Prior to her present position, Mrs. Bell held leadership positions in special
education, PTO/Advisory councils, NOVA BMX, and many community/civic organizations. Mrs. Bell began her career in the US Army as a MEDDAC. From there, she moved to medical social work, working in community mental health, substance abuse, AIDS/homeless shelters, and the Juvenile Justice system. She became a 2nd grade teacher, an educational therapist, and special education consultant.
Mrs. Bell completed her undergraduate work at Virginia Wesleyan in Human Services and graduate coursework in Special Education.
Lisa has overcome an upbringing of violence, sexual abuse, blended family, and learning disabilities. She is the mother of five boys, one on the Autism spectrum, who graduated from New Directions Alternative Center in Manassas, VA. She has four grandchildren.
Email: lisaebell@comcast.net
Phone: 703-599-7921
Alyssandra Malinish
Alyssandra Malinish is formerly a student of New Directions
Alternative Center, and she now attends James Madison University as a fulltime
student. At James Madison University she is majoring in Biology along
with a concentration in pre-medicine and a minor in humanitarian affairs.
Most recently, Ms. Malinish attended a medical mission trip to Mexico with an
organization known as International Service Learning. She is currently looking
forward to attending another mission trip overseas to Africa in the near future.
Each one of these endeavors that she has been able to accomplish, and the
ones that she anticipates, she owes to her experience at New Directions and
how it has shaped her into the determined individual that she is today.
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