Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, 

and Transform Your Life as an Educator

Join New York Times Best-Selling author Dave Burgess for a high-energy, entertaining, and inspirational program that will transform the way you look at your role as an educator.

Learn how to dramatically increase student engagement, design wildly creative lessons, and build a course that is a LIFE-CHANGING Experience for your students.

Teach Like a PIRATE

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Using a unique combination of magic and humor, he will REIGNITE YOUR PASSION for the education profession. 

This program will show you exactly how to make school an amazing place that has students wanting to knock down the walls to get in.

Teach Like a PIRATE has sparked a full-scale revolution in the educational world and has inspired teachers from all over the globe to achieve new levels of excellence in their schools and classrooms.

This program is your chance to experience the one-of-a-kind presentational style of unbelievable intensity and outrageous energy that has transfixed audiences at packed venues across the nation.

Make Your Own Snow

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Unconventional Ways to Disrupt The Status Quo and Crush It as an Entrepreneur

Learn how branding, community building, and a renegade approach to business completely disrupted the educational publishing world and took Dave Burgess on an entrepreneurial journey from classroom teacher to New York Times Best Selling author and CEO of a multimillion-dollar corporation on the INC 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. More importantly, learn how to powerfully position the message you want to deliver and then effectively spread it in ways that challenge the status quo. 

Workshops

Teaching Outside the Box

A Crash Course in Creative Brainstorming

A fast-paced and fun session designed to teach techniques that will skyrocket creativity. You will learn how to use their brain like Google, create a GPS system for powerful teaching, and magically create new ideas through Creative Alchemy. In addition, learn how to overcome obstacles that stifle creativity by using the Wedding Photographer Principle. You’ll leave truly believing you are a creative being and inspired to add memorable experiences for students to your lesson plans.

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Teach Like a PIRATE

New York Times Best Seller

Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator

P is for PIRATE

Tapping into years of personal experience and drawing on the insights of more than 70 educators, the authors offer a wealth of ideas for making learning and teaching more fulfilling than ever before.