It is easy to look at a toxic school climate and culture and attribute this reality to external factors that inevitably impact a school adversely such as home and neighborhood challenges and realities that ever-so-often accompany students into the building. In this highly-engaging,...

Based on Principal Kafele’s best selling book, The Principal 50: Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring School-wide Excellence, Principal Kafele makes the case that building a learning environment that inspires school-wide excellence can never be overstated; particularly in lower-performing...

The list of school leadership responsibilities is an infinite list that never reaches completion. As a school leader, there are always a plethora of things to do with no ending in sight. The challenge for school leaders is how to prioritize them – what are those nonnegotiables that must be...

In this highly interactive and engaging workshop or high-energy keynote address, Principal Kafele will challenge school leaders to look critically at who they are, what they represent and their impact as the leaders of their schools. Specifically, he will challenge each school leader to identify,...

Principal Kafele is known to say and write that “the assistant principalship is the most misunderstood and underutilized position in education!” In far too many cases, assistant principals are relegated to doing one hundred percent of the discipline work along with cafeteria duty and bus duty,...

In far too many schools across the U.S. – particularly urban schools, the assistant principals are relegated to the role of “disciplinarian” or “Dean of Students.” They spend entire school days disciplining and suspending instead of spending the bulk of their days coaching and observing...

Based on Principal Kafele’s book, The ASPIRING Principal 50: Critical Questions for New and Future School Leaders, Principal Kafele asserts that in schools across America, there are thousands of classroom teachers, assistant principals and counselors who aspire to one day become principals. The...

In this empowering keynote address or half / full day workshop, Principal Kafele takes school board members on an in depth, self-reflective, journey that will force them to view with a critical eye who they are as members of their local boards of education, which will include the intentionality...

• Just One Principal Can Completely Alter the Trajectory of a Child
• Just One Elementary School Principal Can Completely Alter the Trajectory of an Entire School Community
• Just One Middle School Principal Can Completely Alter the Trajectory of an Entire School Community
• Just One High School...

Principal Kafele provides one-to-one school leadership consulting for principals and assistant principals. This is 100% on-site consulting during the school day. Virtual meetings can occur when applicable, but for the best experience, Principal Kafele's one to one consulting occurs while...

The discussion on gaps in student achievement continue to be one of the most important discussions in education today; particularly as it relates to the underachievement of children of color. Equally challenging for educators is the continued lack of student motivation, undesirable student...

We have known for quite some time that a "one size fits all" approach to classroom instruction and relationship building simply doesn't work. The "cookie cutter" approach is easy to plan and easy to deliver but virtually impossible for many of the students in the classroom to learn from. Why?...

THE topic in education today is the topic of EQUITY. At its core, equity means, "meeting youngsters where they are, as they are."  Principal Kafele argues that this requires a teacher who possess an “EQUITY MINDSET.” He asserts that if equity is all about meeting the...

For the past ten years, the whole idea of equity in the classroom has evolved to unimaginable proportions…which is a good thing. One of the challenges however is the interpretation of what equity in the classroom actually is. There are a ton of interpretations and definitions out there....

One of the current hot topics in education is "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion." This highly engaging, self-reflective session focuses on the classroom relative to issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. It challenges teachers to look within themselves relative to how they see, treat and...

It's been over 60 years since the landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision back in 1954, but over 60 years later, the masses of Black children continue to find themselves on the wrong side of the "achievement gap," while simultaneously experiencing the...

Too many brilliant children are often overlooked academically because time wasn’t taken to discover how they process new information, make sense out of new information, think, and learn. Consequently, they quickly become bored in school and in far too many cases, become behavioral challenges or...

Classroom management is a perennial hot-topic in education circles. Teachers can so often be heard grumbling, “If I could just get them to behave appropriately in my classroom!” In the numerous cases when students do not, a disciplinary referral is frequently generated, handed to the student and...

Based on Principal Kafele’s book, The Teacher 50: Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence, this empowering, introspective workshop takes teachers on a self-reflective journey designed to challenge them to think deeply and critically about their current practices relative to how they...

The plight of the Black male learner continues to pose a major challenge for educators at all levels throughout the U.S. In this highly engaging, thought-provoking workshop, Principal Kafele will provide educators with an analysis as well as specific strategies that can be implemented immediately...

As America shifted with the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor (and now, Daunte Wright), classroom implications were inevitable. The prevailing question in the education world therefore became, “how will schools and classrooms embrace the various issues of social justice that are currently...

• The Equity Mindset Teacher
• Equity, Social Justice Education, Race & the Classroom Teacher
• Classroom Equity & Black Student Achievement
• Find DISCOMFORT in Your COMFORT
• Just One Teacher Can Completely Alter the Trajectory of a Child
• Just One Counselor Can Completely Alter the Trajectory of...

According to research, children perform better in school when their parents are involved in their education. Although parental engagement / involvement continues to be a major challenge for many schools across the U.S., the fact is that there are many parents who are extremely well-intentioned,...

According to current national data, upwards of 70% of Black children are born into households where the only parent present is the mother. This has significant implications for Black males where far too many mothers continue to struggle with teaching their sons how to become men. The overwhelming...

The first in a three-part series of workshops specifically designed for males of all ages and ethnicities. This workshop provides characteristics of what it is to be a good man in relationship with himself, while providing strategies for self-development.

The second in a three-part series of workshops specifically designed for males of all ages and ethnicities. This workshop provides characteristics of what it is to be a good husband in relationship with his wife, while providing strategies for developing, maintaining and strengthening male –...

The third in a three-part series of workshops specifically designed for males of all ages and ethnicities. This workshop provides characteristics of what it is to be a good father in relationship with his children, while placing a particular emphasis on building strong and productive...

Based on Principal Kafele’s best-selling book, Is My School a Better School BECAUSE I Lead It?, Principal Kafele will challenge each principal and assistant principal to examine their own leadership identity, presence, impact, mission, purpose, vision and value as the leaders of their...

In this empowering workshop or keynote address, Principal Kafele takes school, team, department, division and district leaders on an in depth, self-reflective, highly interactive journey that will force participants to view with a critical eye who they are as leaders within their given leadership...

Because there's no universal definition of equity, the confusion around what equity is and what equity is not is enormous. Principal Kafele is passionate about equity; particularly how it correlates with the building leadership and simply defines it as, "meeting your students where they...

One of the current hot topics in education is "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion." This highly engaging, interactive, self-reflective workshop or keynote address focuses on school leadership relative to issues of diversity, equity & inclusion in their schools. It challenges school...

Principal Kafele contends emphatically that, “The purpose of staff supervision is the continued improvement of instruction!” Due to the complexities of the principalship, it is easy for principals to be so inundated by the non-instructional aspects of school leadership that the...