EDUCATORS
Inspiring LeadersDr. Shields’ trainings and workshops provide educators and professionals cutting-edge, relevant, and research-based tools to empower them both as educators and as advocates for their students and themselves.
Educators & Professionals
Workshops & Trainings
These events are held by request and are tailored to your specific needs and interests. Contact me for more information.
TOPICS
For Educators
- Shut UP and Listen! How to Effectively Communicate with Your Children and Your Children’s School
- Engaging Boys of Color
- Reaching Disconnected Parents
- The Secrets of Resilient Youth
- Keys to Quality Youth Development
- Recruitment and Retention of Youth: Recruiting Strategies for Youth Workers
- Creating Youth-Adult Partnerships
- Over Troubled Waters: Bridging The Generation Gap
- Helpful Tools to Motivate the Unmotivated
- The Skin We’re In: Diversity 101
- Using Hip Hop as Tool of Engagement
- Tools for Dealing with Youth In Crisis
- How to Communicate More Effectively
- Mentor Recruitment Strategies
- Engaging Boys of Color
- Angry and Adolescent
- Keys to Effective Classroom Management
- Diversity 101: Becoming A Global Education
- Hurt People, Hurt People: The Effects of Trauma on Young People and Those Who Care for Them
- Engage Me or Enrage Me: Saving Our Black and Brown Boys from Academic and Social Suicide
- Working with Boys: Resistance, Relationship, and Getting Real
- Parent as Educational Partners
For Youth
- Hip Hop and Politics: Understanding the Potential of the Hip Hop Generation
- 10 Steps Out of Puberty
- The Identity Crisis: It’s Okay To Be You
- Goal Setting: Face Your Future With Confidence
- The Healing Journey Into Self Discovery
- From Boys to Men: The Journey into Manhood
- The Girl Next Door: The Journey Into Womanhood from a Man’s Perspective
- Balance Living for Teen Parents
- The Blueprint of Leadership: From the Classroom to the Board
- Civic Engagement: Everybody Can Be Great!
- The Apprentice: The Entrepreneur in YOU
- Helpful Tools to Motivate the Unmotivated
- SWAG Series for Young Men: Socieity Wants a Gentleman
For Parents
- Shut UP and Listen! How to Effectively Communicate with Your Children and Your Children’s School
- Engaging Boys of Color
- Over Troubled Waters: Bridging The Generation Gap
- Helpful Tools to Motivate the Unmotivated
- The Skin We’re In: Diversity 101
- How to Communicate More Effectively
- Engaging Boys of Color
- Angry and Adolescent
- Boosting Your Parenting Esteem: Cultivating Confidence in Your Children
- Got Mentors? The Art of Recruiting and Retaining Mentors
- Engage Me or Enrage Me: Saving Our Black and Brown Boys from Academic and Social Suicide
- Balancing Work and Family
- Working with Boys: Resistance, Relationship, and Getting Real
- Resolving Conflicts
- Cyber Safety and Social Media
- Promoting Teen Resilience
- Effective Parent Teacher Conferences
- Mindfulness Parenting
Collaborative Initiatives
- SPARK Retreats: Re-igniting the Passion For Your Profession
- Advancing Equity in Education
- Achieving Academic Equity and Excellence for Black Boys
- Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment
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Support Teachers
Dr. Shields’ interactive trainings and workshops, books, and curriculum resources provide you with the tools needed to expand and enhance the scope of your work. Whether you are a teacher or an educational leader who works with teachers, Dr. Shields is here to support your efforts to more effectively meet the needs of the young people with which you work daily.
Inspire Students
Dr. Shields’ progressive and research-driven programs for youth are second to none. He intimately understands the issues impacting young people and is passionate about building leadership and self-efficacy in all the youth with which he works. His collaborative model based off The Shields Way (hyperlink here), means that whether you are a teacher, youth service provider, educational leader, parent, or other change agent, Dr. Shields’ views you as an important partner in the work he does with youth.
Engage Parents
As a parent himself, Dr. Shields works tirelessly to build bridges between parents and educational institutions. He provides workshops and trainings that both raise awareness and enhance your understanding of opportunities, best practices, and resources available to assist you in reaching your youth, whether you are a parent, a provider, or both.
Collaborative Initiatives
- SPARK Retreats:Re-igniting the Passion For Your Profession
- Achieving Academic Equity and Excellence for Black Boys
- Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment
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