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Eric Potterat, Ph.D. is a Clinical, Performance and Sport Psychologist who is considered one of the leading experts in high performance psychology, performance optimization, decision-making and teamwork under pressure, mental skills training, and individual and organizational resilience. He retired as a Commander in the Navy after 20 years of service, the last 10 of which he served as the Head Psychologist for the US Navy SEALs and was responsible for all the psychological Assessment, Selection, Development, Maintenance and Enhancement programs for all Navy SEALs worldwide. He also worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers as their Director of Specialized Performance Programs for 7 years, where he managed the mental performance optimization programs, the pre-draft talent acquisition and scouting character assessments, player mental performance profiles/development, etc. His experience in sport is wide ranging. He was also with Red Bull North America for 6 years as their High Performance Psychologist, where he developed and managed the mental performance and mental skills optimization programs for over 850 Red Bull athletes worldwide. For the last 25 years, he has focused his research and practice on teachable and actionable mental performance techniques, stress resilience, character development, selection, neuropsychology, decision-making under stress, mental toughness training, and elite human performance in extreme environments. He is also credited for developing and implementing the Mental Toughness Training Program for the U.S. Navy SEALs and embedding it into their training pipeline, as well as creating the Performance Psychology program for Red Bull High Performance athletes. He has 30 peer-reviewed, professional journal and/or chapter publications, has been featured on national media (History Channel, MSNBC, national magazines, etc.), and has served as a consultant and speaker on human factors, assessment and selection, performance optimization and mental toughness to many organizations including, NASA, Fortune 500 Companies and Executives, the U.S. Olympic Training Center, many law enforcement and government agencies, and numerous professional (NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.) and collegiate sports teams.

Show Highlights

• Avoid knee-jerk reactions by having “trusted advisors" outside of your discipline.
• Eliminate white space in your schedule by leveraging your time.
• Practice the 4-4-4 breathing method to reduce stress and enhance cognitive performance before demanding meetings or events.
• Avoid bias towards action and redefine performance to affect incremental value in your schools.
• Modify evidence-based principles with thought management.
• Minimize negative aspects of traditional teaching methods.
• Eric suggests changing the term "visualization" to "sensorization" to perform at your best.

“When you look at the best performers in the world, they're focusing on a process and a recipe, and they double and triple down on being consistent and efficient with a process that chips away through segments, through time.”

-Eric Potterat

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Kristen Horton began her career in education at Navajo Mountain Community School as a teacher in a multi-age classroom. Dr. Horton has a commitment to supporting students and teachers through collective educator agency and relational capacity. Dr. Horton currently serves as principal of Continental Colony Elementary School and founder of

L.E.A.D.S. She understands support for teachers will sustain her “why” every day, to increase life chances for students.

Joseph Hyun started his educator journey at UCSD when he signed up to tutor local high school students and discovered his passion for teaching math and commitment to fighting for social justice. Today Joseph serves as the Head of Partner Success at TeachFX, where he supports teachers in increasing equitable opportunities for their students to participate and engage in learning.

Show Highlights

• TeachFX brings significant shifts in leadership for professional learning and coaching.
• Leadership strategies to support student learning and teacher growth.
• Purpose-driven curricula to save time and address learning gaps.
• The most important principle when designing curriculum.
• Tips to encourage diverse forms of dialogue that deepen understanding and promote active participation.
• Avoid ineffective PD sessions that lack teacher agency by encouraging professional learning.
• Support teachers in increasing equitable opportunities for student engagement and participation.
• Transferring ownership to students, using these tools.

“The scariest place to be in is the same place as last year, grow."

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Dr. Leena Bakshi McLean is the founder of STEM4Real, a nonprofit professional learning organization committed to combining STEM and standards-based content learning and leadership with principles of justice-centered pedagogy. She currently serves as the Director of Multicultural Education and Equity for the National Science Teaching Association. Leena has worked with pre-service teachers at UC Berkeley and Claremont Graduate University teaching STEM methods and Universal Design for Learning. She is a former county and state level administrator and mathematics, science and anatomy teacher. She is also the author of the children’s book, “There’s Something in the Water”, a story that highlights the real life of Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes, an endocrinologist from UC Berkeley. As a woman of color and a mom of two girls, access and opportunity in STEM are personal for her. She believes that in order for us to increase our representation in STEM, we must create an identity in STEM. Her doctoral dissertation was on "The Successful Implementation of STEM Initiatives in Lower Income Schools". Leena travels the world as a keynote speaker, inspiring audiences in education, leadership, and technology to think about equitable STEM education and how to ensure access for all. Her next book, Teaching and Learning in STEM, #4Real will be coming soon in October of 2024.

Show Highlights

• Investigate the hesitancy of teachers towards discussing justice and anti bias topics.
• Provide support, coaching, and mentorship for teachers that focuses on building strong relationships with students.
• Tips to unbind yourself from the system, to lead within the system to implement changes.
• Don’t attach yourself to results by experimenting, observing and pivoting where the results take. you.
• Create a transparent budget aligned with the priorities of your community.
• Pull leaders out of the weeds with a candid assessment of school priorities.
• The challenges created by neglecting science and history curriculum.

“The system is not set up to disrupt itself, to innovate, to redesign, but we need that because just looking at the results that kids experience we know that they're inequitable. If you're okay with that, keep doing what we're doing and maintain the system. If that bothers you. Our kids deserve better and equity is something we should all be fighting for, then how are we changing the system to produce a better result?”

-Chief Ruckus Maker Danny Bauer

“There's a program called the Anti Bias and Education Grant that came out of California, and this word anti bias has so much energy where some leaders are saying, you know what, I think we should just call it something else or let's kind of tippy toe around the word or let's not say the word. I don't want to dissuade people from coming. And there's part of me that's like, no, there is bias. We're going to address it, we're going to go head on. And then another part of me that's like, well, yeah, maybe we can change the word and invite people in and call them in and see what way we can handle it. And that's just with one word, anti bias.”

Dr. Leena Bakshi McLean

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Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning.

Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor. Some of her proudest achievements include providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for meaningful change--including the creation of personalized, mastery-focused high schools.

Lori is skilled at helping partners explore what’s possible in classrooms and schools by asking tons of questions, providing lots of readings, supporting risk-taking and making sure there’s laughter along the way.

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• The first steps to building a framework so students can be masters of their learning.
• Why you can’t cheat on authentic assessments
• Rigorous and social, emotional learning are not mutually exclusive, but inclusive
• Lori’s favorite strategies to fill the 3 buckets that ensure deep and joyful learning

“The better that you and I can communicate with one another, the better we can collaborate. Once we have a great collaboration, we can get to this place of synergy. This idea that the room is smarter than any individual in the room. We can construct meaning to get to that higher level of creativity together because we're riffing off each other.”

-Lori McEwen

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Bryan Miltenberg is the proud principal of Aquebogue Elementary School in Riverhead, New York. He's been a teacher, dean, and middle school assistant principal, and has presented and published on topics including school climate and culture, instructional technology, self-aware leadership, inclusivity, time management, and co-teaching partnerships. Against all logic, he remains a suffering lifelong Mets and Jets fan.

Show Highlights

• Establish transformational belonging at your school by avoiding these misunderstandings.
• The different mechanisms Bryan put in place to understand the rapid changes occurring in his school to understand what people were experiencing.
• We all have an “eyes problem.” Build something inclusive with tips to increase teacher retention.
• Tips to build a pipeline that attracts culturally and linguistically diverse candidates to see your school as a place that they wanna be.
• Create a Punk concert environment for your students to connect with their learning community.
• Take the Michael Jordan and Brene Brown approach to adversity and harsh feedback.
• Leaders need to play the long game by balancing the tension between urgent and significant.

“I tell that story, not to say that it's radical to have a greeter or to have a bilingual person, but because it's symbolic of what we're trying to do in terms of telling kids, families and staff, we accept you as you are. We're gonna make the adjustments that we need to make to support you rather than force you to do something you may not be able to do yet.”

-Bryan Miltenberg

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