The best education possible requires the best prepared instructional staff possible. Everything else follows from that.
Students will not be reached academically until they are reached on the human level first. Connection is not sentiment. It is the precondition for everything a school is trying to accomplish.
Marc Brouillet taught in elementary and secondary classrooms, ran buildings as an elementary and secondary administrator, moved to the district office, and ultimately served as a superintendent. That progression matters for the schools that hire him, because he has been accountable for the outcome at every level: the lesson, the building, the department, and the district budget that pays for all of it.
His teaching philosophy begins with Madeline Hunter's line, "Kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." It gets written off as warm and fuzzy, but Marc reads it as an operational fact. You will not reach some students academically until you have reached them human to human, and on many days the subject matter simply cannot compete with what is happening in a student's life. The missing ingredient in a great many classrooms is connection, and the research on that is clear: when students know they are valued as people rather than as names on a roster, they work harder and challenge less.
I am committed to providing students the best education possible, and this requires the best, most well prepared instructional staff we can have leading classrooms.
He is equally direct about what teachers do not need. Not more theory. Not another initiative with a catchy name. They need research-based, proven, practical strategies they can implement immediately, without discarding whatever is already working for them. Educators hold the toughest job in America, expected to be parent, nurse, counselor, advisor, judge, and jury before lunch, and the one-size-fits-all approach stopped serving them long ago. Students arrive with backgrounds, cultures, abilities, and experiences so varied that some days their age is the only thing they share.
Marc is also blunt about the assumption that goes unexamined in most education debates, particularly among politicians: that children arrive at school willing and ready to learn. Educators know better. A generation is arriving substantially unsocialized, learning behavior from screens, feeds, and games rather than from adults, which makes teaching those expectations part of the instructional job rather than a distraction from it.
A graduate of Washington State University, Marc is a national trainer in classroom management, differentiated instruction, and school safety, and he consults with schools and districts on administrator coaching and system-level improvement. He is dedicated to helping educators succeed through motivation, inspiration, humor, and a common-sense approach to stress, and he leaves every session having handed over as many practical strategies as the day allows.
Where the work starts and where every strategy he teaches has to survive: real lessons, real students, real Tuesday afternoons.
Leading schools at both levels, responsible for culture, safety, and instruction across every classroom in the building.
District office administration and then the superintendency, accountable for system-wide operations, effectiveness, and student achievement.
Classroom management, differentiated instruction, and school safety training for K-12 schools, plus coaching for building and district administrators.
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."
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