Upcoming Speakers
September 24, 2019
Dan St. Romain’s work focuses on helping adults understand how times have changed, how these changes have impacted the behavior of youth, and most importantly, how best to design strategies to support long-term behavioral change, vs. short-term compliance. The ‘New Teacher Academy’ will provide educators with innovative sessions to ignite and inspire their classrooms this school year.
November 13, 2019
Dr. Robyn R. Jackson is passionate about the teaching profession. She helps teachers and administrators understand the principles of mastery teaching and shows them how to apply these principles in order to help every student succeed. The author of nine books, Dr. Jackson inspires audiences worldwide to become master teachers, implement more rigorous instruction, support struggling students, and provide effective instructional leadership.
February 20, 2020
Jimmy Casas served twenty-two years as a school leader. He is a best-selling author, speaker, and leadership coach. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at Drake University, teaching a graduate course on Educational Leadership.
Conferences and Seminars
Professional development conferences and seminars are at the heart of ESP. These events provide members with current educational research, theories and policies while emphasizing campus implementation and classroom instruction. Seminars draw upon the expertise of state and national consultants.
An advisory committee of teachers, principals and superintendents recommends topics and speakers, helping ESP respond to campus and district needs and concerns. The professional development series, “Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Innovative Instruction,” is organized around school improvement themes broadly associated with one or more of the correlates of effective schools.
Campus Planning Workshop
In March, ESP leadership teams are invited to attend a planning workshop. This spring retreat has become one of the most anticipated and valued events of the project year. During the workshop, school leadership teams are able to
- evaluate their school year-to-date,
- reflect on the research and other information received at ESP conferences,
- refine their campus improvement plan or other school operations and
- exchange ideas, goals, and triumphs with other campus teams.
Past ESP Speakers
Spencer Henry: an experienced educator, for the soul purpose of providing teachers, administrators, support staff and parents with practical ideas for motivating and managing today’s children.
Marcia Tate: the author of many bestsellers, including Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain.
Eric Sheninger: focuses on leading and learning in the digital age as a model for moving schools and districts forward. This has led to the formation of the Pillars of Digital Leadership, a framework for all educators to initiate sustainable change to transform school cultures.
Dave Burgess: Teach Like a PIRATE seminars offer inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you to increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator.