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Dr. Don Parker provides professional development to school districts to support administrators and teachers to be more effective in working with students to help them increase student behavior and raise student achievement.
11/14/2023
Keynote speech entitled “Touch the Heart Before You Touch the Brain”.
I shared my experience working with troubled youth throughout my career and how once the students know that you believe in them it helps them to believe in themselves!
“We all need someone who believes in us!” 💪🏽💯❤️
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11/10/2023
Some say the bigger the audience the bigger the energy. But really you have to bring 💯 percent of yourself and your energy no matter how big or small your audience is!
Are you giving 💯 percent?
Box opening book reveal for “Be The Driving Force: Leading Your School On The Road To Equity”.
I’m so excited to work with Solution Tree
and have my second book published!
Thank you to everyone who has purchased the book already. I hope it’s beneficial for school leaders and teachers alike to promote equity in your school to help ALL students and ALL staff to be successful!
If you have purchased and received your copy send me a picture with you holding the book and I’ll post it to my social media pages.
If you need to order a copy just use the link in the comments!
Stay well and continue to Be The Driving Force!
11/02/2023
In my first principal job I was in charge of implementing restorative justice and training my teachers and staff. Leading this session on restorative practices at the Innovative Schools Summit today felt so natural and reminded of that.
I reminded the teachers and administrators that, “When it comes to working with a student who may have disrespectful behavior, that we have to get rid of the behavior, but that doesn’t mean getting rid of the child! We can’t throw out the baby with the bath water!”
-Dr. Don Parker, Author, Speaker, Educational Leader
Solution Tree
11/01/2023
I’ll be speaking at the Innovative Schools Summit in Chicago at the Marriott Marquis Conference Center.
Session info: Don’t Throw out the Baby with the Bath Water: Building Relationships through Restorative Practices.
Thursday, November 2nd from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in 3rd floor Glessnor House.
Administrators and teachers, if you are looking to build relationships with your students and improve student behavior to transform your school culture, this is the session for you!
Expect the same high-energy and engaging professional development that I’m known for, where you learn practical strategies that you can implement immediately! Let’s Go!!! 💪🏽💯🔥🎤
10/30/2023
Spoke at Homewood School District 153 on how to build relationship with students of trauma. I told them, “Yes, it’s challenging. But don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do!”
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10/28/2023
So who is this extraordinary woman in this photo here with me? 🤩😇
This is Dr. Teresa Lance who is the Assistant Superintendent for Equity and Innovation in Elgin School District U-46.
She is also a mentor to me and she provided an endorsement for my book “Be The Driving Force”, stating that it was “One of the most comprehensive works on equity that all school leaders need to read!”
Thank you Dr. Lance and continue to Be The Driving Force for school equity! 💪🏽❤️💯