The Center of Influence
One-Day Workshop
Ron's one-day workshop, The Center of Influence, takes its name from Michael Grinder's wonderful quote: "We are inadvertently in love with the Influence of Power, and we need to be in love with the Power of Influence." Webster defines influence as "…producing an effect without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command." Ron believes that really great teachers get results without relying on an exercise of power.

This highly interactive one-day workshop shows teachers how to manage process and build relationships in order to maximize learning. The notion of the VAK Predicates (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) is at the heart of the seminar. On the way to understanding; students must see it, hear it, grapple with it, talk about it, question it, and experience it if learning is to have
any permanence.

The agenda for the day includes five segments:

• The Center of Influence (shifting the work to the students)
• Putting Lecture in Its Place (movement and interaction)
• Hitting the Right Notes (music in the classroom)
• Influencing the Flow (managing process)
• Influencing the Climate (building rapport and relationships)

Lace up your sneakers and open your mind; get ready to take home tools and strategies you can
use on Monday.

The Teacher as Presenter
Half-day (three hours) or One-Day Workshop (five hours of instruction)

Learn how to sharpen your presentations skills as a teacher in this interactive seminar. Lace up your sneakers, sharpen your pencil, and get ready to explore the world of presentation skills that will cover the following topics:

• Utilizing music in at least six different ways to manage process
  
• Differentiating between credible and active voice
  
• Storytelling as a way of engaging students in otherwise difficult material
  
• Discovering the "Power of the Pause"
  
• Using the entire classroom as theater
  
• Exploring the impact of body language
  
• Developing students' presentation and conversational skills
  
• Using visuals and technology in the classroom
  
• Maximizing room arrangement for freedom of movement in the classroom
  
• Using humor as a state change to energize students (and teachers)

Ron will demonstrate ways to present with confidence and engage students in their own learning.

E-mail Ron to bring this powerful and interactive workshop to your school or school district.

Sometimes It's Just About the Dot
Half-day (three hours) or One-Day Workshop (five hours of instruction)

Intrigued? Grab a pair of sneakers and a pen and join Ron Nash as he looks at ways to create a healthy classroom environment at any grade level. Together we will look at elements essential for ultimate success, including:

• Turning procedures into routines
  
• Building relationships with students and parents
  
• Understanding the importance of body language
  
• Harnessing the power of the group
  
• Involving students in their own learning
  
• Using music to facilitate process
  
• Maximizing classroom space
  
• Avoiding deadly de-motivators
  
• Replacing the auditory with the visual
  
• Staying out of the gray
  
• Running on all four learning style cylinders
  
• Shifting from teacher talk to kid talk
  
• Pausing and using silence as an effective management tool

This is a highly interactive seminar and you can expect to be standing, moving, sharing, and laughing as Ron models effective classroom management techniques.

Gotta Move, Gotta Share: Life in the Interactive Classroom
Three-Hour Workshop (can be reduced to two hours or expanded to four)

This interactive three-hour workshop, Gotta Move, Gotta Share: Life in the Interactive Classroom, models the use of movement, conversation, and music in the modern classroom at any grade level. Participants will receive a handout loaded with information and resources that will assist in creating a classroom environment that supports the VAK Predicates (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic). Teachers will learn how to shift the work load from them to their students and by so doing get
students actively involved in their own learning.

E-mail Ron to bring this workshop to your school district.

The Active Social Studies Classroom
Half-day (three hours) or One-Day Workshop (five hours of instruction)

This workshop is meant to provide social studies teachers with ideas on how to engage students and move them from being passive observers to being active learners. Ron will model nearly two dozen strategies (in the full-day version of this workshop) that will shift the work load from teacher to student. As it is with all Ron's seminars, lace up your sneakers and get ready to rock and roll. Ron will demonstrate and model strategies for developing...

• social interaction skills employers say are lacking in younger members of the work force
  
• memory techniques to aid students in recalling ordinarily difficult-to-remember material
  
• storytelling techniques that will engage students and unlock the door to new material
  
• the use of music in managing process in the classroom
  
• natural tendencies of students to infer, predict, solve mysteries, and make connections
  
• a classroom environment that encourages interaction among students

E-mail Ron to bring this content- and strategy-laden workshop to your school district.

Harnessing the Power of Prediction and Storytelling
Four-Hour Workshop (can be reduced to three hours or expanded to five)

This interactive and informative workshop will give teachers at any grade level tools to get kids interested in reading what you want them to read. Ron will demonstrate how to harness the predictive capacities of students. He will also model storytelling techniques that can be used in the classroom from K through 12.

Utilizing these tools and strategies will allow teachers to:

• Shift the workload from teacher to student
  
• Harness the power of prediction
  
• Interest students in almost any reading material
  
• Use storytelling to shift ownership of material to students
  
• Improve storytelling skills
  
• Use music to facilitate process
  
• Engage students and keep them engaged and focused

E-mail Ron to bring this fun and powerful workshop to your school or school district.

Train for Effect (for those who train others)
One-day session (can be adjusted to three or four hours)

Join Ron Nash for an interactive, informative, and fun session that will demonstrate strategies for engaging your seminar participants and making your training “stick.”  You’ll leave with a tool box full
of proven training techniques, including those related to:

• Keeping energy and comfort levels high
• Giving effective directions
• Managing disruptions
• Utilizing PowerPoint appropriately
• Using music to facilitate process
• Creating the right climate for learning
• Understanding the importance of body language
• Getting participants involved
• Increasing retention
• Changing physical and mental states frequently
• Harnessing the power of humor

A former teacher and sales manager, Ron has trained thousands of teachers, classified employees, sales people, and administrators in a career that has spanned almost four decades. You will receive
a 24-page Trainer’s Guidebook, at least two-dozen specific strategies for engaging participants, and those strategies will be modeled.

This is a highly interactive session that will make you a more effective trainer. Bring a pen, some comfortable clothes, and wear your sneakers. Get ready to rock and roll because Ron does not
believe in “sit and git.”

E-mail Ron to schedule this program for your organization.