Keynotes, Workshops & Sessions:

Creating an Award Winning Culture

After winning the 2018 ASCD Whole Child Award, the 2018-2019 Global Class Act Award for kindness, and being selected as a 2019 PBIS Film Festival Finalist, Wildcat Nation’s Hans Appel will share the secrets to creating an award winning culture through Character, Excellence, and Community.  In a mix of theory and practice, participants will discover the power of positive intentionality and it’s connection to school culture.

Objectives for Breakout or Keynotes:

• Understanding the key elements of an award winning culture
• Breaking down the core questions within Character, Excellence, and Community to intentionally infuse a positive school culture.

Objectives for Workshops: 

• Understanding the key elements of an award winning culture
• Breaking down the core questions within Character, Excellence, and Community to intentionally infuse a positive school culture.
• Applying the Award Winning Culture framework to your school through your circle of influence.
• Creating an implementation plan to educate the whole child at all levels in your district/building (ONLY for 1 day training).

Supporting PBIS through Servant Leadership

Are you looking for some creative ways to infuse servant leadership into your PBIS program?  In this session you will be able to learn how to create an environment of Character, Excellence, and Community through servant leadership events.  Creating events for students that focus on Service and Character. Come and find out how to create these events to WOW students and increase the community you are creating.  You will be given practical advice for how to intentionally establish, lead, and organize these events based on easy things you are already doing at your school.

Objectives: 

• Participants will be given practical examples of servant leadership EVENTS
• Participants will apply service leadership skills to existing events at their school
• Participants will be inspired to create an environment of Character, Excellence and Community

Student-Led Podcasting

Learn how to develop student empowerment through a LEADERSHIP PODCAST. In this session, you will gain first hand knowledge from inception to production of the creation of an epic new platform. Jennifer Appel from an AWARD WINNING CULTURE (2018 ASCD Whole Child Award for Washington and 2018 Global Class Act Award for Kindness) will guide you through the process and forever shatter the ceiling on student voice.

Objectives: 

• Learn how to amplify student voice through an authentic audience.
• Learn about the power of secondary experiential learning.
• Learn how to infuse intentionality to create an epic platform.

Infusing SEL into Project Based Learning 

Are you looking for some creative ways to infuse social emotional learning with project based learning?  In this session you will be able to learn how to create an environment of Character, Excellence, and Community while teaching student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems.  In a mix of theory and practice, participants will discover the importance of allowing students choice and voice while still teaching them the importance of kindness, empathy, and service.

Objectives: 

• Participants will be given practical examples of project based learning infused with SEL
• Participants will apply SEL skills to existing project based learning in their schools and classrooms
• Participants will be inspired to create an Award Winning Culture environment which includes Character, Excellence and Community