Ron Clark is a dynamo of education – frequently moving teachers from cheers to tears as he shares his extraordinary approach in “Mover Your Bus” to accelerating student achievement to new heights. We are “On Board” for starting a REVOLUTION in education!
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"America's Educator", NYTimes Best Selling Author, Disney's American Teacher of the Year, and Founder of the Ron Clark Academy
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Ron Clark’s outstanding success with students from low-wealth areas of North Carolina and New York City led him to be named Disney’s American Teacher of the Year. He is a New York Times Best Selling author, and his classes have been honored at the White House on three separate occasions. Ron’s teaching experiences in New York City are the subject of the uplifting film, The Ron Clark Story, starring Matthew Perry. Currently, Mr. Clark serves as a teacher and administrator at the Ron Clark Academy, an award winning and internationally acclaimed middle school in Atlanta, GA. The school serves as a training site for educators, and each year thousands of teachers and administrators from around the world visit the school to be trained in their methods for helping all students achieve success.
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Move Your Bus! Keys to productivity, motivation and success in the workplace!
Teamwork is crucial to the success of any business, and as acclaimed author and speaker Ron Clark illustrates, the members of any team are the key to unlocking success. Imagine a company as a bus filled with people who either help or hinder a team’s ability to move it forward: drivers (who steer the organization), runners (who consistently go above and beyond for the good of the organization), joggers (who do their jobs without pushing themselves), walkers (who are just getting pulled along), and riders (who hinder success and drag the team down). It’s the team leader’s job to recognize how members fall into these categories, encourage them to keep the “bus” moving by working together, and know when it’s time to kick the riders off.
In the tradition of Who Moved My Cheese? and Fish!, Move Your Bus is an accessible and uplifting business parable that illustrates Clark’s expert strategies to maximize the performance of each member of a team. These easy to implement techniques will inspire employees and team leaders alike to work harder and smarter and drive the organization to succeed.
Reboot, Reset and Elevate!
Professionals in the scholarship and education sectors have navigated immense change in recent years—but in this dynamic and passionate keynote, Ron Clark delivers a powerful blend of inspiration, data-driven strategies, and innovative techniques that will energize and empower attendees. Drawing from real-world experiences and engaging stories, Ron shares proven methods to help organizations better support students, adapt to emerging trends, and elevate their impact. Attendees will walk away motivated, equipped with practical tools, and ready to reboot, reset, and elevate their approach to student success.
Improve Your School's Climate and Culture
People from all over the world visit the Ron Clark Academy to learn how Ron and his team build a successful climate and culture in their school, and in this dynamic and high-energy keynote, Ron will provide the audience with over one hundred ways they can infuse joy, proven strategies and exciting techniques for taking their school to the next level!
"The Aliens is Coming!"
During this keynote focused on the state of education in the world, Ron Clark informs the audience about data trends, test score results and an analysis of his journeys to classrooms and school districts in all 50 states. "The Aliens is Coming," is focused on the challenges we are facing in the American education system, but Ron delivers it in a way that is uplifting, inspiring and filled with hilarity! Educators will leave with concrete examples of how they can improve their teaching methods and their schools, but they will also leave feeling hope and a promise for a new tomorrow.
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Be 1% Better: Surprisingly Simple Ways to Transform Your School
by Ron Clark
Transforming Your School Starts with 1% Changes
As his school began rebounding from the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic, visionary educator Ron Clark asked himself a crucial question: How can we continue to improve when we’re already giving our all? The answer was to ask his staff to brainstorm ways to be just a little bit better. If everyone committed to ten of these “one percenters,” as he called them, they would have a major impact. That’s exactly what happened, and today, the Ron Clark Academy is leading the way with simple but innovative practices that are transforming the lives of students, parents, and teachers.
In Be 1% Better, Clark opens his playbook, sharing dozens of ways he and his staff have made change doable. The strategies here work both within and beyond the classroom by breaking change down into “baby steps” that can easily be integrated into daily tasks and that don’t involve months of planning or considerable resources.
Be 1% Better equips educators, administrators, staff, and school leaders with everything they need to get just a little bit better, then watch as these “one percenters” cascade into cultural and curricular shifts that benefit everyone.
Ron Clark is the New York Times best-selling author of The Essential 55, which has sold more than one million copies in twenty-five different languages. Clark’s other works, Move Your Bus, The End of Molasses Classes, and The Excellent 11 were all met with critical acclaim. He has been named American Teacher of the Year by Disney and was Oprah Winfrey’s pick as her “Phenomenal Man.” He founded the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, which more than 145,000 educators from around the world have visited to learn about the extraordinary ways that teachers and parents of RCA have helped children achieve great success. Clark has been featured on the Today show and CNN, and his experiences have been turned into the uplifting film The Ron Clark Story, starring Matthew Perry.
Move Your Bus
by Ron Clark
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning educator Ron Clark applies his successful leadership principles to the business world in this effective and accessible guidebook, perfect for any manager looking to inspire and motivate his or her team. Includes a foreword by bestselling author and FranklinCovey executive Sean Covey.
Teamwork is crucial to the success of any business, and as acclaimed author and speaker Ron Clark illustrates, the members of any team are the key to unlocking success. Imagine a company as a bus filled with people who either help or hinder a team's ability to move it forward: drivers (who steer the organization), runners (who consistently go above and beyond for the good of the organization), joggers (who do their jobs without pushing themselves), walkers (who are just getting pulled along), and riders (who hinder success and drag the team down). It's the team leader's job to recognize how members fall into these categories, encourage them to keep the "bus" moving by working together, and know when it's time to kick the riders off.
In the tradition of Who Moved My Cheese? and Fish!, Move Your Bus is an accessible and uplifting business parable that illustrates Clark's expert strategies to maximize the performance of each member of a team. These easy to implement techniques will inspire employees and team leaders alike to work harder and smarter and drive the organization to succeed.
The Essential 55
by Ron Clark
From the Disney Teacher of the Year and New York Times bestselling author comes the classic guide to bringing out the best in your students, revised and updated for today's teachers and parents.
Over 1 million copies sold!
When Ron Clark walked into his fifth-grade class in rural North Carolina, he was confronted with disinterested children in desperate need of structure and compassion. Brainstorming how best to reignite their love of learning, Ron created 55 lessons. Soon his fifth graders were reading at a sixth-grade level, engaging in class, and loving school. What's more, they were gaining something crucial: self-respect.
These lessons evolved into The Essential 55 - guidelines for students on how to live and interact with others. Ron lit a fire under parents and teachers around the world to raise their standards and expect the most from their students.
The Essential 55 features a new foreword from Ron and a fresh take on his classic rules, with eight new and updated guidelines. Ron's ideas show that with determination, discipline, and regular rewards, the children you stick by will be the children you come to admire.
The Excellent 11
by Ron Clark
When The Essential 55 was published, Ron Clark became a tireless promoter, traveling the country to speak to large groups of teachers and fans. And when his Oprah appearance shot the book onto the New York Times bestseller list, he kept the heat on. We can expect the same tenacious commitment to promoting his follow-up book, The Excellent 11.The Excellent 11 contains eleven sections, with each one focusing on a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. Ron Clark draws from his own experience to give advice, telling personal stories that demonstrate the significance of each theme within the learning environment--an environment that extends beyond the classroom and into the larger world. Using themes ranging from Adventure, Ingenuity, and Humor to Dedication, Creativity, and Love, Clark provides a road map for both parents and teachers who want to enrich their children's learning experiences.
The End of Molasses Classes
by Ron Clark
New York Times bestselling author and educator Ron Clark challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a difference in the classroom and uplift, educate, and empower our children. Read this book to find out why so many across the country have embraced these powerful rules. - Set the electric tone on day one
- Teach your children how to study--don't expect it to come naturally
- Don't constantly stress about test scores
- Not every child deserves a cookie
- Lift up your teachers. No, really, lift them up!
- If kids like you all the time, you're doing something wrong
- Don't be a penny parent Be different. Be bold. Join in.
- Teach your children how to study--don't expect it to come naturally
- Don't constantly stress about test scores
- Not every child deserves a cookie
- Lift up your teachers. No, really, lift them up!
- If kids like you all the time, you're doing something wrong
- Don't be a penny parent Be different. Be bold. Join in.
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