Music Power Action - Using MEDIA THAT MOVIES in the Classroom (90 min) AND Far Beyond Icebreakers - Using INTERACTIVE TOOLS to create class community (90 min)

Presenter:
Leading to Change, Inc

Description:

Music Power Action - Using MEDIA THAT MOVIES in the Classroom
What’s the connection between T.I., Common, All American Rejects, Lupe Fiasco, Wyclef, Shakira, and even Cowboy Troy? WHERE can you access clips from TODAY's movies in the theater... FREE (and legally)! And most importantly, how can you use over 20 of TODAY’s songs and 10 videos to make your classrooms come alive? Come to this session ready to laugh, play, and move to the rhythm!


Far Beyond Icebreakers - Using INTERACTIVE TOOLS to create class community
The first few weeks in your classroom are tough! Facilitation, public speaking, and creating community with your class is more than a practice, it’s an art form! Here is the “best of the best” of instant tricks and techniques to create a comfortable learning classroom environment from the very beginning. Get ready to move, laugh, play and pick up some great ideas!

Curricular Areas:
All

Presenter Details:
The Leading to Chang training team today is led by one of the country's foremost and most sought after experts on teaching techniques, classroom design, and youth culture. Eric Rowles is a nationally recognized trainer, speaker, and consultant whom has worked with over 150,000 youth, adults, administrators, professionals, and policy makers within the past 15 years. His presentations are legendary - by combining the energy and innovation of a team of master trainers, while at the same time reaching each of us through his stories, research, and on-the-ground strategies. One part motivational speaker, one part DJ, and two parts community organizer and parent of 2 daughters, Eric runs a customized consulting and facilitation practice that, through a network of over 20 dynamic and diversely talented trainers, works with for profit and non-profit organizations to achieve progressive and dynamic change.