Reach them personally, and the learning follows. That's the work, and that's why I'm here.
Students learn best when they know their teachers genuinely care about them. Reach a student on a personal level first, and you earn the chance to reach them academically.
Jim Bob Solsbery has spent the last eighteen years working with over 80,000 educators in 200 school districts all across the United States. He does not just motivate, inspire, and entertain educators. He sends them home with practical, proven strategies they can use in their classrooms immediately.
His teaching philosophy is built on a simple belief: students learn best when they know their teachers genuinely care about them. Meaningful relationships are the foundation of learning, and many students must be reached on a personal level before they can be reached academically. When students feel valued and respected, they are more engaged, they work harder, and they create fewer classroom challenges.
Educators don't need more theory or trendy initiatives with catchy names. They need research-based, proven, practical strategies they can use the very next class period.
Jim Bob understands that educators fill many roles every day, as teacher, counselor, mentor, caregiver, and advocate, for students who arrive from every kind of background. Through motivation, humor, inspiration, and practical guidance, he helps teachers calm the classroom, motivate the unmotivated, and remember the powerful impact they have on students' lives.
That belief is rooted in his own story. A caring, dedicated teacher once helped him overcome a serious childhood stuttering problem, an experience that still inspires his work today. He knows what one teacher can do for one student, and he spends his days helping teachers do exactly that.
Years in the classroom and on the field, where Jim Bob learned that students must be reached as people first. A caring teacher had once helped him overcome a childhood stutter, and he never forgot what that connection made possible.
National Trainer and Executive Director for the United States Department of Agriculture, leading training at a national scale and sharpening the craft of moving a room and making strategies stick.
Eighteen years working with over 80,000 educators in 200 school districts across the United States. Motivating, inspiring, and entertaining teachers while sending them home with strategies they can use the very next day.
Keynote speaker and author of The Humor Attitude, known to educators across the country as The Educators Friend. Still doing the one thing that has always mattered most: helping teachers calm the classroom and motivate the unmotivated.
This was the best logical presentation on discipline I've had in twenty-three years of teaching. I have practical ideas I can use immediately. He demonstrated great knowledge of classroom practices, management, and what life is actually like in the classroom. So few do.
"One of the most immediately useful workshops I've taken. Even after 20 years."
"I've never seen anything like this. You get tools you can apply the very next day."
For K-12 schools and districts ready to give their teachers a day that actually changes Monday morning. Available across the United States.