SPEAKING
Keynote and Workshop
Lead With Pride
This high-energy, emotional, and interactive leadership journey challenges participants to reconnect with what they believe, why they lead, and who they lead alongside. Educational leadership can feel isolating—but it doesn’t have to be.
Participants will explore how intentional leadership, vulnerability, and meaningful connections can build a culture where everyone feels a sense of PRIDE. Leaders will define their priorities, share best practices, and build communities rooted in accountability, collaboration, and growth.
The goal? A school community where everyone is Proud to Lead, Proud to Teach, Proud to Attend, and Proud to Send.
Surround yourself with people who elevate your energy, expectations, and impact—and leave believing more deeply in yourself, your people, and the work you do.
Keynote and Workshop
What happens when educators genuinely believe in one another, and believe that together, they can make a difference?
This interactive session explores how schools can build a culture of shared belief, collective growth, and intentional action. Using examples from Lenape High School, including Solving Circles, Leadership Academy, Peer Observation, and Classroom Management Makeover, and more. We’ll examine how intentional behaviors can move a staff from working alongside one another to growing because of one another.
Participants will leave with practical ideas for creating an environment where people believe, contribute, challenge, support, and grow together.
The BELIEVE Framework
Break-Out Session and Workshop
The Power of Peer Observations - Making More Like Our Best
What if your school’s most powerful professional development resource is already in the building?
Drawing from 4,000+ voluntary peer observations over eight years, this workshop reveals how to unlock the expertise already within your staff.
Participants will learn to identify instructional “superpowers,” share powerful practice across classrooms, and build belief in themselves and each other through trust, collaboration, and vulnerability.
More than an observation model, this is a shift in how educators see themselves—and one another—as resources for growth.
Leave with a replicable framework to personalize PD, elevate instruction, eliminate isolation, and create a culture where educators grow together.
Cultivating Leaders.
Leadership is a learned skill and we need to cultivate a community of students of leadership.
This workshop showcases Lenape’s Leadership Academy model for developing leadership capacity in both students and staff, creating a culture where people believe in themselves, find their voice, and make a difference.
Participants will explore how to intentionally develop five essential leadership skills:
Communication – finding your voice and connecting with others
Empathy – understanding perspectives and leading with care
Critical Thinking – solving problems and making thoughtful decisions
Accountability – taking ownership and following through
Collaboration – leveraging the strengths of others to achieve more
Through practical examples and strategies, participants will learn how to create authentic opportunities for students and staff to practice leadership, build confidence, and grow together.
Leadership isn’t a position. It’s a capacity—and every person has the potential to lead.
Break-Out Session and Workshop