Marcia Tate | Founder of Developing Minds, Inc.

Marcia Tate

Founder of Developing Minds, Inc.

Fee Range
Please contact us for pricing
Travels From
Atlanta, GA, US

Marcia Tate
Biography

Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former Executive Director of Professional Development for the DeKalb County School System, Decatur, Georgia. During her 30-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director. She received the 2001 Distinguished Staff Developer Award for the State of Georgia and her department was chosen to receive the Exemplary Program Award for the state.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the following eight best-sellers: (1) Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain - (3nd Ed.); "Sit & Get" Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies that Engage the Adult Brain - (2nd Ed.); (3) Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies that Engage the Brain - (2nd Ed.); (4) Shouting Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Techniques to Detour Around the Danger Zones - (2nd Ed.); (5) Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites - 20 Numeracy Strategies That Engage the Brain and (6) Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Increase Your Child's Brain Power; (7) Science Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain; and (8) Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain; and her latest book, Formative Assessment in a Brain-compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They're Learning?. Participants in her workshops refer to them as the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the 20 strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her Master's degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University. Spelman College awarded her the Apple Award for excellence in the field of education.

Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher; and eight grandchildren: Aaron, Aidan, Christian, Maxwell, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, and Noah.

Marcia Tate
Featured Videos

Current: Taking Traditional Strategies to Transform the Classroom

Time 49:58

More Videos From Marcia Tate

Taking Traditional Strategies to Transform the Classroom
Time 49:58
Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
Time 03:22

Formative Assessment In A Brain-compatible Classroom
How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?

If you wait until you have planned your lesson to decide how you will assess it, you have actually waited too late! Once you have decided what you want students to know and be able to do, the second question becomes, how will you know when they can do it. Whether they are called multiple intelligences or gifts, students come to class with many different ways of knowing. This highly-engaging workshop will deal with both traditional and more authentic forms for assessing those ways since both forms should be included in a student’s portfolio and enable students to succeed in both college and career. Leave this session with over 50 products and performances which enable us to know if students are learning and methods (i.e. checklists and rubrics) for assessing them. This workshop has been called practical, informative, and a great deal of fun!

Mathematics Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites
20 Numeracy Strategies that Engage the Brain

M-A-T-H is known to be the shortened form of the word Mathematics. However, did you know that it is also a mnemonic device that stands for Math Ain’t That Hard? This acrostic rings true when brain-compatible strategies are used to teach mathematics. Compare the Singapore model for math instruction to that of the U.S. Learn to separate your math content into chunks and experience how easy it can be to teach those chunks when your students are role-playing, drawing out or visualizing a word problem, dancing the number line by doing the Number Line Hustle, or creating an original mnemonic device or story to remember the steps in long division. Whether one is singing the multiplication facts or the quadratic equation, teaching math while using 20 brain-compatible strategies makes the content understandable, memorable, and so much fun!

The Power of Positive Thinking

Whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you’re right! People don’t realize how they severely limit their brain’s potential with negative thinking. It is amazing how confidence in one’s ability to accomplish a task positively impacts one’s success at actually achieving it. When people approach situations with a confident attitude and a positive belief system, life-changing things can occur! Based on a combination of brain research and the book, The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, this workshop, explores the detrimental effects of stress on your life and how it is the number one cause of aging and a major contributor to illness. You will learn how to lengthen your life by determining your purpose, reducing damaging stress, and creating an optimistic daily outlook. You will also learn the importance of laughter. After all, consider how long many of your major comedians lived such as Bob Hope, Andy Griffith, or Phyllis Diller, or the age that many of the living ones have attained such as Betty White, Dick Van Dyke, or Carol Burnett.

Preparing Your Child for Success in School and in Life
20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power

Since the most rapid period of growth for brain cells is zero to four years of age, that would make a parent a child’s first and best teacher! Yet, there are few manuals which are given to parents to show them exactly how to perform this all important job successfully. Participants in this workshop will learn techniques which can help them get their children off to a healthy start, build relationships with them throughout their lives, equip them with the necessary structure for healthy brain development, and assist them in increasing their academic achievement. Instructional strategies which parents can use to address the visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic modalities of their children will be modeled throughout. Many parents have stated that this workshop and the accompanying book should be a required experience for everyone who calls themselves a parent.

Marcia Tate
Featured Book

Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms: Twelve Brain-Based Principles to Avoid Burnout, Increase Optimism, and Support Physical Well-Being (Manage stress by Marcia Tate

Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms: Twelve Brain-Based Principles to Avoid Burnout, Increase Optimism, and Support Physical Well-Being (Manage stress

by Marcia Tate

Bestselling author Dr. Marcia L. Tate delivers 12 brain-based principles for avoiding teacher burnout and increasing health and wellness for teachers. These research-backed strategies will help you thrive personally and professionally. Each chapter digs into the benefits of these self-care and stress management tips and offers suggestions for bringing the practice to life in your classroom.

Avoid burnout with these self-care tips for teachers and other educators:

  • Understand the root causes and symptoms of educator and teacher stress, overwhelm, and burnout.
  • Learn practical strategies proven to help you live better, live longer, and become a better teacher.
  • Integrate wellness principles and coping strategies into your daily life so you feel rejuvenated and ready to serve others.
  • Translate your wellness to the classroom, creating happy, ready-to-learn students.
  • Maintain a lifestyle of happiness and health for long-term success.
Get more details and availability

Marcia Tate

Give us some basic details about you and your upcoming event, and one of our experts will be in touch with you quickly regarding pricing and availability.
Event Details
Your Details
Cancel
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.