Speaking
Keynote Presentations
Teach Like a PIRATE
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.
Using a unique combination of magic and humor, he will reignite your passion for the education profession and 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: Unconventional Ways to Disrupt The Status Quo & 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.
Using Magic to Teach and Amaze
A fun, hands-on instructional workshop designed to teach participants how to incorporate magic and other amazing principles into their lessons. Effects will be performed, modeled, and taught by the instructor, a professional magician. Participants will leave ready to perform several magical effects and brimming with ideas of how to discover similar ways to hook and engage students. This session empowers teachers to embrace their personal passions and use them to create powerful learning experiences.