Dr. Samuel Bennett & Dr. Martin Ratcliffe | The Heart and Brain of Education - Encouraging and Equipping Educators

Dr. Samuel Bennett & Dr. Martin Ratcliffe

The Heart and Brain of Education - Encouraging and Equipping Educators

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Dr. Samuel Bennett & Dr. Martin Ratcliffe
Biography

We are edutainers - educators who entertain. Dr. Samuel Bennett is a full time professor of education and former dean. He was also the Florida 2006 teacher of the year and National 2006 finalist. And he was a fifth grade elementary teacher for a number of years! Dr. Martin Ratcliffe also teaches education courses in higher education and has recently coauthored Schools that Make the Grade: What Successful schools do to improve Student Achievement. He has been a teacher, principal, and school administrator and has educational experience in private, public, and international schools. What We Have Done...Dr. Bennett has travelled and spoken to educators all over the country. For example, he has spoken at the annual convention for the Florida Association of Teacher Educators (FATE), the state convention for the Florida League of Christian Schools (FLOCS), and numerous schools school districts, and business enterprises. He is also a valuable contributor to Schools that Make the Grade. He has a timely message that encourages educators to take H.E.A.R.T. and is known as the Educational Heart Specialist. Dr. Ratcliffe has addressed educators in schools and universities, and has spoken at national and international conferences. His message is based on his research and book where he encourages weary educators and challenges them to use their B.R.A.I.N. and implement the seven critical success factors. He is known as the Educational Brain Specialist. What We Can Do For You... Our purpose is to encourage and equip frontline educators. We want to encourage you to "feel right" about education (Heart Specialist) so that you can "think right" about education (Brain Specialist), which in turn will help you to "do right" and become highly effective and improve student learning. We believe that encouraged and properly equipped educators are found in Schools that Make the Grade. We are flexible and available as our schedule allows either together or individually. We are always excited to have the privilege of edutaining educators to encourage and help them to develop and grow in effectiveness as educators.

Dr. Samuel Bennett & Dr. Martin Ratcliffe
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Dr. Bennett and Dr. Ratcliffe
Dr. Bennett and Dr. Ratcliffe

The theme for messages brought jointly or individually is summed up in this stanza: Capture the students’ hearts and they will feel rightAnd when they feel right they can think rightAnd when they think right they can do rightAnd when they do right they make the grade

The Heart and Brain of Education

This presentation is tailored to meet the needs of the target audience. Dr. Bennett brings an engaging message on the importance of “Aiming for the Heart.” He is the Educational Heart Specialist. Dr. Ratcliffe presents the case for using research-based practices that improve student achievement. He is the Educational Brain Specialist.

Dr. Bennett

• Aim for the Heart: Students are able to perform better in all areas when you reach their heart and work from the inside out. You are able to help them feel better about themselves and then they are able to perform better; academically and socially.
• Encouragement is needed by everyone. When we help our students feel as if they are all VIPs, they will soar to new heights.
• Great Customer Service Builds Great Schools-the first impression is where great customer service begins. You are never able to change or improve on the first impression—Customer Service is vital.
• Teacher of the Year-What does it mean to be selected as the Teacher of the Year? You are not the best teacher in the nation, state, district, or your own school, but hopefully you are the best teacher in your classroom.
• Personalities in the Classroom-when you understand the personalities and characteristics of your students, your school year will run much smoother.
• What teachers want Administrators to Know-“Just give me a breath of fresh air” is one of the ten ideas of what teachers want administrators to know.
• The Importance of Mentoring—“Students do not care how you know until they know how much you care.” The process of mentoring students can be a life changer for you and the students.
• Believe, Build, Become your Dream-students need to develop their dreams into reality. Many people did not become successful because they thought they would, they became successful because someone else thought they would. Help others become successful with their dreams.
• Additional Presentations are available upon request

Dr. Ratcliffe

Put Seven Critical Success Factors to Work in Your School. The Critical Success Factors Correlate with Student Achievement. The presentation is tailored to the needs of the target audience and can range from a brief overview of the seven critical success factors to individual presentations of each success factor, plus the Introduction and Wrap-Up sessions. Each of the seven critical success factors looks at research, case studies, frontline perspectives, and anecdotal accounts. Plus, each success factor presents practical research-based strategies for educators at all levels (superintendents, principals, and teachers). Each presentation concludes with a reflection question.
• Introduction and Research – This presentation lays a research foundation for the exploration of the seven critical success factors.
• Opportunity to Learn and Student Time on Task – “Given sufficient time (and appropriate types of help), 95 percent of students (the top 5 percent and the next 90 percent) can learn a subject up to a high level of mastery” (S.B. Bloom, 1968, p.4)
• Climate of High Expectations – “You can do it if you believe you can” (Napoleon Hill, 1928, p. 18). In order to meet high expectations, one must develop high self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is at the heart of student success.
• Clear and Focused Mission – “The mission serves as the polestar, or guiding principle…” (A. M. Blankenstein, 2004, p. 72). Everyone has a part to play in the mission statement’s success.
• Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress – “People do what you inspect not what you expect” (Lou Gerstner, 2002, p.13.) In this era of accountability, it is imperative that educators frequently monitor student progress and use the data to drive instruction.
• Instructional Leadership – “Involvement in curriculum, instruction, and assessment is considered critical to the concept of instructional leadership” (R.J. Marzano, T. Waters, and B.A. Mcnulty, 2005, p. 53).
• A Safe and orderly Environment – “The learning environment must be psychologically as well as physically safe for all students and must provide students with ‘safe havens in which to learn’” (M.L. Manning and K.T. Bucher, 2003, p. 163).
• Positive Home-School Relations – “The American family is the rock on which a solid education can and must be built” Richard W. Riley, 1994, para 4 (former U.S. Secretary of Education).
• Wrap—up: This session revisits the major themes covered and reminds us to steer our educational ship according to the solidly grounded and researched fundamentals – the seven critical success factors.
• Additional presentations are Available upon Request – for example, presentations on Classroom Assessment, Becoming a Discerning Consumer of Educational Research, and other related presentations, are available upon request.

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