Districts booking through the Texas Education Service Center network want a speaker who already understands K-12 professional learning from the inside. I spent twenty years in education leadership, as a teacher, an instructional coach, and an educational leadership role, before building a professional speaking career. Before that, I worked as a licensed personal banker and a corporate sales executive, which gives me a real feel for both sides of the room, the educator doing the work and the decision-maker approving the budget for it. That combination is what makes a session land with a teacher in the audience and the superintendent who booked it.

What Booking Through the ESC Network Means

Working through an Education Service Center gives a district a simpler purchasing path and a speaker already vetted for K-12 audiences specifically. That matters when a campus is trying to book professional learning on a tight timeline. My sessions are built for exactly that system, practical strategies districts can put into practice the same week, in a format that fits how ESC-approved professional learning actually gets scheduled and budgeted across a school year.

Best practices in professional learning tend to share one trait: they get built by someone who has actually stood in front of the specific audience they’re designed for. That’s the standard every session on this page is held to, whether the room is a high school staff meeting or a regional gathering of school leaders across an entire ESC region.

Sessions Built for Real K-12 Rooms

Every session draws on direct classroom and school leadership experience, built for education audiences from the ground up.

• Special Education. Practical strategies and positive behavioral interventions built from real classroom experience. This session draws directly on years spent supporting special education students and the teachers responsible for them every day.
• Early Childhood. Dynamic sessions for early childhood educators navigating constant change in standards and expectations, built around the specific pressures of an early childhood classroom, where the pace of change rarely slows down.
• Educational Leadership. A leadership keynote speaker session for school leaders managing change across an entire campus or district. This session gives principals and administrators a working method for leading their own teams through the next initiative.
• Educational Technology. Practical, hands-on workshops for integrating new tools while keeping students at the center of every decision. Teachers leave with specific next steps they can use the following week.
• Mental Health & Professional Learning. Sessions that treat educator well-being as a genuine professional learning priority, built around the real, specific pressures educators face every day in the classroom.

Every topic above is available as a keynote, a breakout session, or a full hands-on workshop, and each one is built to meet Texas Education Agency professional learning standards.

Format Options for Every Campus Event

A single keynote sets the tone for an opening convocation or a districtwide inservice day. A breakout session gives one team of school leaders a deeper, hands-on version of the same content. A full workshop turns a campus’s professional learning day into working time, building a real plan for the year ahead together in the room. All three formats are available in person or virtually, from a single high school campus to a full ESC region spanning districts across the state.

Common Questions From District Leaders

How does booking through the ESC network work?
Districts can book directly through their regional Education Service Center’s approved provider process, a simpler path for purchasing than working with an outside vendor with no existing relationship to the ESC system.

What age groups and roles does this cover?
Sessions are built for early childhood through high school, for audiences ranging from classroom teachers to school leaders and superintendents, depending on the specific session booked.

Is this available for a single campus or a full district inservice?
Both. The same content scales from a single campus breakout session to a districtwide keynote opening a full inservice day, with the depth adjusted to match the format.

Can sessions be customized for a specific initiative our district is already working on?
Yes. Every session builds in time to connect the core content to whatever specific goal, standard, or initiative a campus or district is currently focused on, so the takeaway ties directly to the work already underway rather than sitting apart from it.

Booking early matters in the ESC calendar. Inservice days, convocations, and regional conferences typically get scheduled months ahead of the school year, and the districts that plan earliest get first pick of dates and topics.

Delivered across the United States, with deep roots in Texas K-12 education specifically, this is a speaker who spent two decades on the same side of the room as the audience before ever stepping onto a stage professionally, and who still builds every session from that same classroom-level understanding.