Dwayne Reed

The first step in being the educator your scholars need is to build relationships with them! Teaching phenom, and relationship-building expert, Mr. Reed, will inspire your teachers in the art of Maslow before Bloom, which means getting kids to know you care before they care about what you know. Each participant will take-away dozens of practical, relationship-building skills and strategies which can immediately be implemented in their classroom. Teacher-leaders will also benefit from the lessons learned in this session!

This session highlights ways in which building a relationship with students can rewire their ideas about reading. Mr. Reed, a reading teacher by trade, will discuss tactics and strategies he’s used in the classroom which have caused hundreds of children to develop a love for reading! Changing your relationship with your scholar will always change their relationship with reading. Find out how, here!

This session hilariously chronicles the crazy time known as one’s first year of teaching! Mr. Reed shows his love for pre-service educators by giving them a real, raw, and completely authentic look at what the first year of war…teaching… is like. Reed will share his out-of-the-box ideas and many of the experiences that helped him survive his first go-‘round at things. Future teachers can expect to see a genuine picture of what the first year will be like, and to leave with a smile on their face, and a song in their heart!

This session will give educators the tools necessary to establish meaningful relationships with their students through the use of technology. Though distanced due of COVID-19, teachers and other educators CAN develop strong, loving relationships with their students by using the strategies discussed in this session, along with a multitude of other tech tools, sites, and resources which will be covered. As it’s been said, teachers can do virtually anything!