Adolph "Doc" Brown Speech Topics
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...
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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....
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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...
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Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover! Culturally Responsive Teaching
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...
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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 equity, classroom management, differentiated teaching strategies, implicit bias, growth...
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"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...
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The Early Years: 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...
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Reflective Educators are Effective Educators™ (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....
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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...
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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...
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We've Gotta Reach Em' to Teach Em'™ Every Student, Every Day!
Learn and laugh with the outrageous motivation and highly-interactive education delivery of Dr. Adolph Brown as he takes all on a journey of socio-emotional learning (SEL). Doc demonstrates how SEL matters by showing how the connective capacity of good educators lead to student success and...
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ALL Means ALL!™ Cultivating Inclusion and 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...
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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...
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Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover! Diversity, Equity & Inclusion In Action!
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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