Education

Keynotes

• ALL In, We're Gonna WIN! The BEST School Year EVER!™ Opening Day with Dr. Adolph Brown

  Credentialed Master Teacher Dr. Adolph Brown brings a "Party with a Purpose" to your district for Opening Day Convocation. With music, motivation and relevant evidenced-based data driven messages (addressing mental toughness, self-care, teamwork, classroom management, and so much more) Dr. Brown inspires ALL from food services and maintenance staff to school librarians and professional school nurses to be the very best they can be!  Participants are guaranteed to think more critically, dance out loud, belly laugh and even cry.  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will be uplifted and motivated to start the school year. 
  2. Participants will understand the importance of developing relationships with students and each other, as well as maintaining a positive, professional attitude.

  There are Parts 1, 2 & 3 to the Opening Day series

   

   

• Head Start: The Benefits of Early Childhood Education™

  Head Start helped young Adolph Brown with his rough start.  Who Dr. Adolph Brown is today, began with Head Start.  Dr. Brown is giving back to the places where it all begins by addressing educators, parents, guardians, and paraprofessionals of Early Childhood Development. Dr. Brown is a frequently invited motivational keynote speaker, child development trainer, and seminar leader on topics of child development birth to 8, parent engagement, family engagement, community engagement and father involvement. As a former Head Start student and practicing clinical and educational psychologist, Dr. Adolph Brown has successfully consulted with and positively impacted over 100 Head Start programs and early childhood organizations across the nation and abroad.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Dr. Brown shares his triumphant journey as a Head Start student with inspiring stories and hilarious anecdotes coupled with gems of early childhood, parenting, and professional development insights and evidence-based research.
  2. Dr. Adolph Brown provides relatable education, sound advice and applicable strategies for all parents, teachers, and staff of all early childhood programs, child and welfare agencies, and foster care organizations. 
• Teacher Revival™ (Best After Winter Break)

  Dr. Brown encourages, inspires and empowers teachers to engage in more self-reflection and student-connection. Focus is given to the “How?” in education for practical take-aways and ready-to-use classroom strategies. You will cry a little, laugh out loud & learn bunches. Ultimately, Dr. Brown will relight your fire for education.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will learn the importance and benefit of self-efficacy and collective teacher efficacy.

  2. Participants will learn the importance of self-care throughout the school year.

• Putting Down What You Are Carrying... & Preparing For The Tasks At Hand!

  Our personal troubles, private challenges, and societal crises beyond our control can become baggage over time, and we risk dumping it on others.  Putting down the baggage can be scary.  It will require us to redefine who we are and what we are capable of becoming.  Unresolved issues due to the disruption of the pandemic, unforeseen setbacks, societal unrest, neglected relationships, career failures, illnesses, or huge financial loss may lead to over indulgent and/or other unhealthy behavior in order to mask underlying issues. Our future success depends on our willingness to unpack and put down our baggage.  Join Dr. Brown on this remarkable journey of “letting it go and emptying it out.”

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Learn that once we rid ourselves of the limiting negative thoughts, feelings, judgments, experiences, we can experience fulfillment in our natural state.
  2. Learn that acknowledgement is crucial to unloading these issues and beginning the journey onward. 
• Be THAT Teacher!™ Doc & His Third Grade Teacher
  

  Be THE One to make the positive difference, The One who's remembered for loving their students.  Often times, professional development gives only one perspective. Be wowed by the perspectives of a high-risk student and his high-performing third grade teacher.  This captivating journey chronicles the early life of the young Adolph Brown and his third grade teacher as they both share the trials and triumphs of achievement against all odds.

  Learning Objectives

  • Educators will find that the students they are often trying to inspire will end up inspiring them.
  • Educators will learn that when they take the hand of a student, they are likely to open the student's mind while touching the student's heart.
• Doing What's Best for Students...Walking The Talk!™

  "Doing what's best for students" is a common phrase tossed around in education often without subsequent clarifying conversations.  This master class will explore what it really means in practical terms to do what's best for students with the understanding that we all are fallible human beings.  What is “best” for students is rarely a single, narrowly-focused strategy, approach, and/or philosophy.   This is a journey that will require all to think beyond the "core curriculum" as well as self-reflect and possibly self-correct.  From a developmental perspective, we know what is "best" can and will differ depending on the students' ages, background, community needs, etc.  Students are happier, healthier, and better educated when given diverse and multiple opportunities for expression.  To accomplish this we must work to nurture the soul as well as the brain.  Rich opportunities for a variety of experiences help students become well-rounded adults.  Participants will leave WOWED, STUNNED, and TOUCHED!  Tears and Cheers will abound!

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Create a learning environment that supports the delivery of content and wisdom with empathy, care, dignity, respect, relevance, and common sense. 

  2.  Learning to treat ALL students as if they were the children of your superintendent.

  3.  Visualize your student's success.

   

• Reflective Leaders are Effective Leaders™ (For School Boards, Teachers, Teacher Leaders and/or School Leaders)

  Self-reflection is a humbling process. It’s essential to find out why we think, say, and do certain things…then better ourselves. Self-reflection and self-correction are the highest forms of self learning and healing, thus to change the world around us, we must first change the world within us.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Know that no matter how good one thinks they are, one’s guidance, leadership, supervision and/or teaching strategies can always be improved.
  2. Learn the process of connecting self-reflection to the leadership process.
      
• To Serve Well, You Must Live Well™ Self-Care For Professionals

  Self-care is for all!  We cannot control everything that life throws our way, but we can control how well we take care of ourselves.  Self-care for professionals is about taking care of your own mental health and wellbeing so that you can effectively support people you work with, live with and love.  This is an upbeat and eye-opening journey of reflection, connection and in many cases redirection. 

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will learn 5 Self-Care practices for every area of their life.
  2. Participants will learn the key to living a balanced life.

   

• We've Gotta Reach Em' to Teach Em'™ Helping Reach ALL Students!

  Learn and laugh with the outrageous motivation and highly-interactive education delivery of Dr. Adolph Brown as he takes all on a reflective and introspective journey of socio-emotional learning (SEL) of students and the well-being of adults.  Doc demonstrates how SEL matters by showing how the connective capacity of good educators lead to student success and retention with field-tested strategies. This session is designed to greatly increase student achievement across ethnicity, gender, language, and SES. With music, motivation, and profound messages, this is a workshop that will inspire, ignite, and excite all who attend.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Learn evidence-based strategies (the Championship Habits of Teaching Excellence) to move 21st Century students from boredom to stardom!
  2. Transform the culture and climate of your school "from the balcony" on behalf of ALL student learners.
      
• Employee Wellness Day with Doc Brown

  This fun-filled content driven “happy hour” is full of opportunities for personal and team development that can surely transform your personal life and workplace.  Doc Brown will take employees on a holistic, musical, and dancing journey of reflections and connections to stay balanced, mindful, and focused.  Doc Brown teaches that the best way to increase your mental wellness is to make it a priority.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will learn how to increase their wellbeing, productivity, and motivation.
  2. Participants will learn how to build mental resilience and maintain motivation.
• Mental Health & Trauma in Early Childhood

  Doc Brown explains the reasons behind so many young children struggling with mental health issues and what can be done to help. Disruptive behaviors, tantrums, and hyperactivity have become more noticeable in childcare centers across the country and more urgent as time goes on.  

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will learn why mental health for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers is just as important (maybe more) than adult mental health.

  2.  Participants will learn what childcare providers, parents, and guardians can do to help the young children.

   

• Silence is Violence!

  Allow Doc Brown to take your staff, teachers, students, parents, and community stakeholders on a serious, yet loving and compassionate journey whereby all learn to have mutual respect for one another, and all feel physically, emotionally, and socially comfortable.  Ultimately, everyone will feel they are valued, belong, and welcomed. A safe learning environment is free of threat of emotional, physical, and psychological harm and allows all to risk exploring difficult issues and express their viewpoints honestly.  Schools cannot do this important work alone without the help of the home and community.  We must create a community of collaboration and cooperation where everyone understands that "silence is violence."

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be led to understand that students often see more than educators and parents and have a duty to "see something, say something!"
  2. Participants will understand the damage of supporting and encouraging a “culture of revenge.”
• Closing "The Empathy Gap™" From Dr. Brown's Groundbreaking Research

  Closing the Empathy Gap™ is apart of Dr. Brown's groundbreaking research stemming from his doctoral dissertation  https://bit.ly/38lTFKc  resulting in Dr. Brown providing successful seminars to countless law enforcement agencies, businesses, and educational institutions around the world.  Dr. Brown coined the terms "The Empathy Gap™" as the space that exist between individuals where there's not a bridge of understanding and compassion.  Empathy is the foundation for which human beings connect.  When the connection is absent, anything built up this divided foundation, will also have a divide - health, wealth, justice, achievement, equity, etc.  Dr. Brown's master theses and doctoral dissertation helped him set the stage for his life's work of Spreading Love, Light and Insight while bridging the various divides built upon the Empathy Gap™.  This is an inspiring and informing journey of self-reflection and if needed, self-correction.  

  Learning Objectives

  1. This Master Class will offer explanations, solutions and numerous takeaways for bridging the various divides we are faced within society.
  2. This Master Class will help ALL understand and apply the terms of implicit bias, confirmation bias, contact theory, cognitive dissonance, inclusion and diversity.

   

• Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover! Creating Safe Spaces & Psychological Safety for ALL!

  Literally, one cannot tell the contents of a book by just looking at the material used to hold it together.  A book with a torn and worn cover may be more important, more entertaining, or more useful than a book bound in a flashier manner.  The same can be extended to relationships.  The prejudice of making decisions solely based on outward appearance could cost one the chance of a meaningful encounter.  This is a journey that will provide opportunities for self-exploration of one's implicit biases, the tools to adjust automatic patterns of thinking, and ultimately strategies to eliminate discriminatory behaviors.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to avoid the “pejorative tradition” of falling into the trap of only looking at the surface of people, things, and ideas without taking the time and effort to delve deeper into them.
  2. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to utilize strict self-discipline, concepts of the empathy gap, psychological safety, stereotype threat, and fairness in putting prejudices aside and looking deeper into everything we do without "shaming and blaming."    
• Two Backpacks. Unpacking The Unseen™ Trauma Informed Teaching

  Childhood trauma is an urgent issue with a profound effect on learning. In this seminar, Dr. Brown successfully addresses the needs of all young people and adults alike, by sharing the importance of dealing with the issues in your backpacks before they deal with your success and happiness. This seminar increases one’s sense of self, grows social intelligence, and promotes individuals’ capacities to work collaboratively to positively make a difference in the lives of others.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Participants will be encouraged to see the toxic stress beneath the surface and teach from a trauma-informed perspective.
  2. Participants will begin to create teams who develop a climate for learning where ALL students and educators experience success
• ALL Means ALL!™ Cultivating Inclusion, Unlearning Implicit Bias & Inspiring Equity

  Blind Spots and Implicit Biases are hidden forces that shape our opinions, attitudes, perceptions and decisions about others.  Although understanding structural inequities is important, understanding the foundations from which these structures are built is paramount.  This interactive dynamic and uplifting presentation will address the shortcuts that create our mental blind spots. The operational definition of "equity" will include naming of barriers and identifying source narratives while dismantling them.  Confirmation biases and microaggressions will also be discussed.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Provide motivation and knowledge that will help attendees remain focused, motivated and inspired to overcome faulty personal beliefs, prior expectations, and anchors.
  2. Contribute to development and/or maintenance of safe spaces of respect, acceptance and support for ALL.
• The Early Years & What Every Effective Early Childhood Educator Does!

  As the old saying goes, “Many are called, but few are chosen” could easily be the mantra for the special kind of educator who effectively works with young children in their first five years of life.  This humorous and educational master class will take participants on an uplifting and inspiring ride with Dr. Adolph Brown that is full of all the important elements of being an effective childhood educator.   Dr. Brown will also strongly encourage the self-care of these special professionals as they work with young children who are full of energy.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will understand the need to be FUN, CREATIVE, PATIENT, FLEXIBLE, and EMPATHIC.
  2. Participants will UNDERSTAND DIVERSITY and learn to see young children through a TRAUMA-INFORMED LENSE.
• DocSpeaks Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): If we want students to love learning, we must create environments where it is safe to fail!

  Dr. Adolph Brown has written a popular book titled Championship Habits or as many refer to as "soft skills" for those from ALL walks of life.  Dr. Brown often refers to "soft skills" as essential skills or center skills.  Dr. Brown believes if a student is an honor roll student, speaks multiple languages, and takes advance placement subjects but can't handle their emotions, deal with stress, or resolve conflict none of the other stuff is going to matter.  His book and this facilitation focuses on such skills as critical thinking, empathy, creativity, and teamwork.  Join Dr. Brown as he shares how decision-making, self-awareness, and self-correction are at the center of learning and life for students as well as adults.

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Learn to start with, build from, and embed social and emotional learning (SEL) into safe, equitable, empowering learning experiences for all students.

  2.  Understand why it is mission critical that we are intentional and explicit in the weaving of SEL into the fabric of our everyday learning and life.

   

   

• Attitude Changes Everything!

  Your attitude and work ethic are the two things you have total control over.  You have the power to decide how you are going to see the world -- and how the world is likely to see you.  You can allow your attitude to support you, or defeat you.  Before you ever say a word, your attitude speaks on your behalf.  Come along on this flight with Dr. Brown to really see how "Your attitude affects your cruising altitude."  

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Learn how to operate from inside a positive attitude whereby your body language sends out unmistakable cues of openness.
  2.  Learn how your attitude can infect the people who see you with the same behavior.  

   

• Virtual Group Hug! Connecting Our Hearts In Trying Times.

  Laughing together and connecting our hearts are as close as you can get to a hug without touching.  Dr. Brown's "group hug" is the perfect gift for your team; one size fits all. 

  Learning Objectives

  1. ALL in attendance will experience the empathetic warm, profound appreciation and grateful recognition of their efforts in trying times.
  2.  Understand and appreciate Dr. Brown's explanation of interdependence and the fact that "we are better together, even if we are sometimes apart."

• An Asset-Based Approach to Education for English Language Learners (ELL), Emergent Bilinguals & Students of Color

  The main key in achieving equity in classrooms across the country is using an asset-based approach to education.  Many efforts for equity and access erroneously focus on marginalized and underrepresented communities as if they needed to be "saved."  With an asset-based philosophy, every community is seen as valuable; every community has strengths and potential.  Join Dr. Brown as he demonstrates how diversity of thought, culture, language, and traits are positive assets and how to look at diversity and differences as attributes to be celebrated rather than things to overcome.

  Learning Objectives:

  1.  Participants will learn to eliminate deficit thinking and harmful biases that hold back students, especially those with disabilities, English language learners, emergent bilinguals, and students of color.

  2. Participants will learn to value what students bring to the classroom rather than characterizing students for what they may need to work on or lack.

• "What Might I Be Wrong About?"™

  Dr. Brown believes that learning is the easy part, and UNLEARNING is the hard part.  Join Dr. Brown on a journey of professional and self revelation.  He incorporates elements of the sciences of neuroscience research, humanistic psychology, educational theory and cultural anthropology to help us overcome faulty perceptions, stereotype threat, ego-centrism and blind spots.  You are sure to leave this session a better human-being.

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Participants will learn about the concept of "psychological safety" in the workplace.
  2.  Participants will learn strategies to create and sustain healthy, supportive, positive and safe work environments.

   

• Collective Teacher Efficacy: From Research to Practice

  Dr. Brown uses his research strategies of Educator Championship Habits to support educators' collective belief in their abilities to positively affect students.  Based on the research of his colleague Drs. Albert Bandura and John Hattie, Collective Teacher Efficacy is strongly correlated with student achievement.

   

  Learning Objectives
   

  1. Educators will learn strategies shown to positively influence student outcomes, including those who are disengaged and/or disadvantaged.
      
  2. Educators will develop a shared belief through the collective action of the Educator Championship Habits that educators make an educational difference to their students over and above the educational impact of their homes and communities
• CTE is a Key. Learning Today. Earning Tomorrow.™

  Although Dr. Brown is an renowned educator and businessman, early on he needed to take care of his young family and was presented the opportunity to become a psychiatric nurse's aide at Eastern State Psychiatric Hospital.  Dr. Brown knows firsthand the value of CTE, and increases public awareness and appreciation for career and technical education (CTE) at every turn.  Dr. Brown uses relatable research and best practices to engagingly and entertainingly highlight how CTE is an answer to many of the major challenges facing our nation.  When high schools, community colleges, business and the community at large collaborate to provide quality pathways for student opportunities in college, career and life, students are able to turn their passions into paychecks and their dreams into careers.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will learn the value of CTE in reducing dropout rates, postsecondary access and completion, the skills gap, unemployment and more.  
  2. Participants will learn the value of taking advantage of a wide range of international partnerships and powerful business and industry connections.
      
• What No One Tells You About Teaching - Proactive Classroom Management 101

  Learn and laugh with the outrageous motivation and highly interactive education delivery of Dr. Adolph Brown as he takes all on a journey of Teaching & Learning Excellence.  Doc demonstrates how the connective capacity of good educators leads to student success and retention with field-tested strategies.  This session is designed to greatly increase student achievement across ethnicity, gender, language, and SES.  With music, motivation, and profound messages, this is a workshop that will inspire, ignite, and excite all who attend.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Learn evidence-based strategies to move 21st Century students from boredom to stardom!
  2. Transform the culture and climate of your school on behalf of ALL student learners.
• Digitally Engaging Today's Adult Learners

  Many of today's students have lived with and used technology most if not all of their lives.  Embark on an informative and interactive journey with Dr. Brown as he demonstrates who today's learners are, how personal technology use impacts learning in the classroom, how technology can be selectively used to enhance learning, and the elements to consider when engaging learners in a digital learning environment.  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will learn how to use technology to make connections in and beyond the classroom, and explore different andragogical and pedagogical practices that facilitate 21st Century classroom management.
  2. Participants will learn strategies for an Engaged Learning Plan for use in their classroom courses.
• The Whole Student Deserves The Whole Educator

  Join Dr. Brown as he explores the dynamics of compassion fatigue experienced by those helping individuals in distress.  Educators and other helping professionals have been known to have an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for the helper.

  Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will learn how best to recognize and manage the symptoms.
  2. Participants will learn practical, authentic and sustainable self-care and healing strategies.
• Because of You…

  This master class focuses on the positive impact made my individuals, organizations, and/or corporations on those they may have not experienced success in the absence of such a positive impact.

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will understand the importance of being positive difference makers in the lives of others.

  2. Participants will gain more insight on how to sustain the positive impact they make. 

• Lead By Example

  The mark of a great leader lies in their ability to "walk the talk."  To lead by example means to guide others through your behavior as opposed to your words.  Your intention is to inspire others to follow your example.  The opposite of leading by example would be to "say one thing and do another."  Dr. Brown humorously and insightfully demonstrates how leading by example can increase trust and team engagement.  Participants will understand how individual leaders can positively influence the behavior and attitudes of others. Today's workforce wants to see that your actions mirror what you say.

  Objectives:

  1.  Participants will learn alignment is at the heart of being an authentic and genuine leader, by correcting inconsistencies and contractions in their behavior.

  2.  Participants will understand the ultimate purpose of leadership, which is to be the change you want to see in your organization.

• Creating & Maintaining a Safe Learning Environment for ALL

  Allow Doc Brown to take your staff, teachers, students, parents, and community stakeholders on a loving, compassionate, yet fun journey whereby all learn to have mutual respect for one another, and all feel physically, emotionally, and socially comfortable.  Ultimately, everyone will feel they are valued, belong, and welcomed. A safe learning environment is free of threat of emotional, physical, and psychological harm and allows all to risk exploring difficult issues and express their viewpoints honestly.  Schools cannot do this important work alone without the help of the home and community.  We must create a community of collaboration and cooperation where everyone understands that "silence is violence."

  Learning Objectives:

  1.  Participants will be led to understand that students often see more than educators and parents and have a duty to "see something, say something!"

  2.  Participants will understand the damage of supporting and encouraging a “culture of revenge.”