Talks
Keynotes that
change the conversation.
Sessions for conferences, staff days, leadership teams, and family nights. In person or virtual, in English or Spanish.
Signature keynote
The Rhetoric Machine
AI is persuasion at scale. The real skill isn't using it. It's judging it. A talk that moves a room from catching cheaters to building discernment.
60 minute keynote, or half and full day workshops.
Early college and P-TECH
Early college
For campuses taking students through six years of school in four.
Welcome to Early College: Accelerated Success
Why the early college model works and how teachers new to it can accelerate learning.
Six Years in Four
Accelerating students who arrive behind grade level without overwhelming them.
Building Agency in Dual Credit
Helping high schoolers become college students who advocate for themselves.
TSI Ready
Preparing students for the TSI assessment and dual credit courses.
First-Year Institute Design
Designing a summer bridge that prepares a cohort from day one.
High School and College Alignment
Bringing high school teachers and college faculty into one sequence.
AI and judgment
AI in the classroom
For staffs ready to move past fear and toward practice.
Teaching Judgment, Not Detection
Moving from policing AI to building judgment, with practices for the next day.
AI-Proofing the Writing Assignment
Redesigning tasks to measure thinking AI can't fake.
A Classroom AI Policy That Works
A clear line between AI that supports thinking and AI that replaces it.
Reading AI Like a Rhetorician
Recognizing bias, framing, and spin in AI-generated text.
Grading in the Age of AI
What to reward when a first draft takes seconds.
English and AP
Writing and rhetoric
For English departments and AP teams.
The Influence Game
How persuasion shapes what students read, scroll, and believe.
Writers Who Can Defend Their Work
Assignment and conference design that makes original thinking visible.
AP Language Without the Panic
Rhetorical analysis, argument, and synthesis that build real writers.
Constructed Responses That Build Thinking
Short and extended responses that develop reasoning.
Leaders and families
Leadership and community
For leadership teams, boards, and family nights.
From AI Concern to AI Policy
Taking a leadership team to a policy the board can adopt.
Rolling Out AI Without Stalling
Sequencing, buy-in, and the mistakes that stall adoption.
Equity by Design
Making sure AI closes gaps for multilingual and first-gen students.
AI at Home
What parents need to know about AI and their children's learning.
Talking to Your Teen About AI
The homework and honesty conversation, without the standoff.
La IA en Casa
The family AI night, delivered fully in Spanish.
For event organizers.
Need a speaker one-sheet for your committee? Email us and we'll send one.
Formats
60 to 90 minute keynote, half-day or full-day workshop, multi-session series. In person or virtual.
Audiences
Conferences, whole staffs, departments, leadership teams, boards, students, and families.
What we need
A projector or display, audio and a microphone for large rooms, and your goals ahead of time.