Evan Robb's message of positivity, growth-mindset, and achieving greatness has wide appeal. His commitment to polished delivery demonstrates his passion and investment in providing a memorable, impactful experience for his audience.
Evan Robb
Distinguished Principal, TEDx Speaker, Author, and Horace Mann Educator of The Year Recipient
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Evan Robb
Biography
Evan Robb is a building-level principal, author, TEDx Speaker, and recently named one of the 10 most inspiring global thought leaders for 2020. Evan offers inspirational keynotes, workshops, webinars, and on-going professional learning opportunities on leadership, mindset, culture, impactful change, and how to improve literacy in schools. Evan has shared his ideas with thousands of educators at workshops across the United States and in other countries.
An author of several books, his first book, The Principal's Leadership Sourcebook: Practices, Tools, and Strategies for Building a Thriving School Community was published by Scholastic in 2007. His next book, The Ten- Minute Principal: Free Up Your Time to Focus on Leadership , was published by Corwin Press in 2019. Evan Robb and Laura Robb collaborated with Dave Burgess Publishing to write Team Makers:Positively Impacting the Lives of Children Through District-Wide Dreaming, Collaborating, and Change (2019) . In addition, Evan partnered with Laura Robb to write, A School Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches, and Leaders to Support Students, with Benchmark Education (2020). Committed to empowering educational leaders and teachers to prepare students for their futures, not their past.
Connect with Evan on Twitter @ERobbPrincipal
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Featured Keynote Programs
Workshops
Each workshop can be one or two hours and are ideal for teachers and administrators. Evan’s workshops allow staff to delve deeper into topics and to leave with ideas and strategies to positively impact culture, climate, and change.
The Ten-Minute Principal Workshop
Evan shares ideas and strategies you can immediately put to use. Attendees will reflect on their work schedules and create new and creative ways to organize the day to increase effectiveness and to start feeling less reactionary to the position of school-based administrator.
TeamMakers Active-Learning Workshop
Evan will work with your team to identify division-wide challenges. Teams will prioritize challenge, discuss ways to address them and the pathways forward.
Mindset Matters
Staff will see how mindset, disrupting routines and letting go of what is holding us back can lead to innovations in teaching and leading. Evan will share stories, pose questions, and offer suggestions on how the choices we make can change the trajectories of adults and children.
Think Like an Entrepreneur
Market Your School
Evan pulls upon his M.B.A. skills to share 10 specific strategies you can use to harness technologies and social media to define your school’s brand and to promote your brand to your community, staff, and students.
You Can’t Fire Your Way to Excellence
In this workshop, Evan shares 5 specific strategies he has learned to improve staff performance. Effective principals understand it takes time for a teacher to grow and develop the skills necessary to integrate best practices into a learner-centered environment. It’s important to understand this: a principal cannot build a positive student-focused culture by removing staff in hopes of the perfect teacher showing up for an interview.
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Featured Books
Ten-Minute Principal
by Evan Robb
TeamMakers
by Evan Robb
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Featured Reviews
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Featured Articles & Resources
Early Intervention is Key to Reading Success:
Strategies for Classroom Teachers
By: Cameron Carter
Those in the field of education, at one point or another (probably in one of those after school staff...
Reading the World: Nurturing A Global Perspective for All Students
By Laura Robb
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. Plato
"The only way to read the world is by...
Finding Common Ground. Time to End the Great Reading Debate!
Mrs. Rita M. Wirtz, MA
There's so much going on right now in the world, in particular, I'm extremely concerned about the resurfacing of the "reading wars." I have no control...
Homewreck
By: Harvey Smokey Daniels
The greatest source of tears and heartbreak in our family, over all of our child-raising years, was homework. Like by far. Like 90%. Those...
Is Every Student a Protagonist in Your Classroom Library?
By Laura Robb and Evan Robb
Classroom libraries can be conduits for change, providing all children access to texts that affirm who they are, open possibilities for what...
Make Word Study (phonics, spelling, and vocabulary) a Game!
Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
A few years ago, my four adult children were home for the holidays. Every evening after the dinner table was cleared and the dishes were done,...
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