Are you looking for an engaging keynote speaker, coach, presenter, or workshop facilitator to inspire and empower educators?
Weston possesses an innate ability to connect with educators, inspiring them to embrace actionable strategies that elevate teaching and learning. His natural talent for making educators feel comfortable, even as he challenges them, fosters a growth mindset, encourages the adoption of innovative instructional strategies, and cultivates deeper classroom engagement.
-Tammy Seneca, Supervisor of Information Systems and Educational Technology
I frequently receive calls from leaders across the state, inquiring about what we're doing in Teague ISD to achieve such success. My answer is simple and straightforward: we work with Weston Kieschnick. His influence has been so profound that it's become the cornerstone of our district's transformation and continued success.
-Chris Skinner, Superintendent, Teague ISD
Keynote Topics
The Achievement Ethos: Common behaviors. Uncommon performance
What separates high achievers from the rest? In this transformative keynote, discover the core behaviors shared by successful students, elite business and school leaders, professional athletes, and members of Seal Team 6. Uncover the truth behind why low performers resort to blame, denial, excuses, and quitting, and learn practical strategies to build a culture of performance and accountability. In this highly engaging session, you’ll equip yourself with the tools to shift mindsets and achieve extraordinary results.
The Educator’s ATLAS: Your roadmap to engagement
Based on the critically acclaimed book, The Educator’s ATLAS offers a groundbreaking roadmap for capturing student engagement in the first moments of class, and sustaining it all the way to the last. In keeping with Weston Kieschnick’s mission and vision for education, ATLAS holds both learner needs and teacher wisdom in equal importance. Central to this is alignment and clarification of student engagement that—once and for all—offers teachers an actionable role. Educators will leave this session joyfully inspired, motivated, and with a plan in hand for cultivating curiosity, creating participatory classrooms, and nurturing a desire to persevere in all students. And as is always the case with Kieschnick’s keynotes, participants will laugh and have a lot of fun along the way.
Go Forth and Be Bold: Educating for the Future
Wisdom informs innovation; the latter simply cannot exist without the former. In the push for future-focused schools, we need to take an honest look at the strategies and practices of our past. Which highly effective strategies need to accompany us on the path forward? Which practices never worked to begin with, and need to go the way of the floppy disk? The world’s best educators understand that learning is king, growth is queen, and “cool” is the court jester. The jester is technology, and the jester has value, but we shouldn’t put the jester in charge of the kingdom. The elite skills of our predecessors need a place in classrooms of the future. Weston Kieschnick will share his findings from the best-selling book Bold School, after spending decades coaching some of the most talented educators from all 50 states and more than 30 countries around the world. He will offer participants practical strategies for immediate implementation, while demonstrating how masters of pedagogy and technology try early, fail often, and pursue excellence with joy to create bold, blended learning experiences that work.
Breaking Bold: Living the Relationship Habits that Matter
Are the kids OK? There may be no more essential question for educators today. In a moment when mental health issues are bearing down on our students, the single greatest gift we can give a child is a relationship with a caring adult who believes with relentless tenacity in their ability to succeed. Join Weston Kieschnick as he discusses the key relationship habits of master teachers and leaders from his best-selling book Breaking Bold. Participants will leave with tools for immediate implementation and set up with a year’s worth of resources to build better relationships with students and peers, all while supporting the academic work we do with children.