OTHER KEYNOTES PROVIDED
Andre enjoys speaking and sharing on a variety of platforms and experiences. Here are some other options of which Andre has spoken.
Below are a list of offering topics for keynotes, sessions and workshops offered for your school, group, conference and/or association.
RECENT PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS
Each year, millions of preschoolers walk into classrooms for the first time excited about learning and elated to start their journey of education. By their freshman year in high school, those same students dread attending school, with many dropping out. Never developing college and career ready success skills, thousands of students transition from the joys of preschool to the dejected lows of prison. This pipeline can be conceptualized as a series of roadblocks and obstacles that hinder children, especially children of color, from academic success but funnel them into the criminal justice system.
This talk explores where the gap originated and how schools, districts and communities are combatting the preschool to prison pipeline. It provides awareness to help steer students away from preschool to prison but from preschool to prosperity using practical strategies to engage students using research based strategies, protocols, culture builders, technology and laughter!
(Keynote, General Session)
Are your students not as engaged as you would like them to be? Could you use a few strategies to further engage your students within the classroom setting? This session provides practical ways to establish and maintain culture using energizers/brain breaks, anecdotes, examples and protocols. This is definitely not a sit and get session. Be prepared to have fun as we build culture and engage students.
(Keynote, General Session)
Have you noticed the culture of your school, organization and/or company slipping? Is staff/faculty morale low? Are you an aspiring leader looking to avoid costly mistakes and consistently build the culture? Well, this interactive session explores pitfalls in leadership and provides practical solutions to help raise the culture and community of your school and/or organization.
No matter your experience level, this session will give you fresh perspective and challenge you to think differently about your own leadership style and how to best serve your colleagues and community. Join the conversation for an interactive session on the three biggest mistakes leaders make when building the culture and how to avoid them.
(Keynote, General Session)
Schools around the world are adopting career-oriented, project-based, technology embedded and real world ideas to education. Those spaces recognize the connections between innovative learning and creativity. However, not all schools provide opportunities where all students can shine. This talk provides context about PBL using storytelling, giving examples from classrooms, and sharing proven, effective and diverse practices for early childhood through adult learners.
To make space for PBL, we must change how educators lead and learn. This talk will inspire you to think about how we can build on the strengths, interests, and talents of our students and create better learning experiences for all. We will explore how to move toward a shared vision of teaching and learning, embrace learning as a process and not an event, and make learning public to share what you are learning and inspire others.
(Keynote, General Session)
To achieve the truly elite level, one must train, study, and compete with a fervor that exceeds the status quo, and then find ways to do more. The Mamba Mentality, coined by Kobe Bryant, is all about focusing on the process, trusting in the hard work when it matters most and constantly trying to be the best version of yourself. In this keynote, we discover what the Mamba Mentality looks like for students of all ages and how to start doing more to better self and community. This is an interactive session where attendees participate through self-evaluation, discussion, planning and of course, laughter!
(Keynote for Students)
In one second, there are two million Google searches, seventy-two hours of video uploaded to YouTube, forty-one thousand Facebook posts, two hundred seventy-eight thousand tweets, one hundred four thousand snaps, and $83,000 worth of sales on Amazon. With over seven billion people in the world constantly connected through the Internet, there are opportunities to inspire anyone across the world. It only takes one person’s voice to make a difference in a school, neighborhood, community, city and beyond.
This keynote explores examples of voices changing the trajectory of thousands of people’s lives and how those strategies continue to work around the world.
(Keynote for Students)
Everyone knows YouTube as the video manual capital of the world. However, did you know there is so much more you can do? Attendees at this session will explore different ways to use YouTube as well as discovering ways to save those YouTube clips that you have come to love. This is an interactive “Play with Me” session where attendees participate and learn several new strategies while using their devices. Devices are encouraged for this session.
(General Session)
Movies are an excellent way to make connections. It brings forth metaphors, symbolism and provides opportunities to reflect. In this talk/session, we explore movies and lift up some of the learning lessons within. We discuss context on how you can use media to provide those opportunities for participants to critically think and connect the movie clips to their lives and situations.
(General Session)
You know it’s a good story when your colleague leans in and says, “See, what had happened…” Instantly, you’re locked in because stories let us share information in a way that creates an emotional connection. We gain a deeper understanding of other people’s experiences which builds the culture and climate of our communities. In this interactive session, enriching conversations and meaningful narratives will be shared to help us grow and become better leaders, educators and citizens… from the good, the bad and everything in between!
(General Session)
Today’s students provide some of the funniest moments in a school day; however, educators often miss out on them due to having tunnel vision on the ins-and-outs of the school day. In this up beat session, participants will hear some of the funniest moments in education, participate in sharing some of their funniest moments to laugh a little, and will discover ways to use those memorable moments in their school setting.
(General Session)
- Back-to-School Staff Convocations
- Black History Month Programs
- College Nights
- Conference Keynote Addresses (Topics geared toward conference theme)
- Corporate Days of Learning/Meetings
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Programs
- Graduations (all levels)
- Panel Discussions (Topics geared toward conference theme)
- Parent Nights
- Student Assemblies (Elementary & Secondary)