Program Descriptions:
Dr. Stephen Sroka is a motivational speaker who integrates cutting-edge research with reality-based strategies for dealing with the issues that face our youth today including violence, drugs, bullying, suicide and academic achievement as well as mental health and school climate and safety. He addresses the challenges of building trusted relationships with communication, collaboration, culture and caring. Using the WSCC concept (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child), he stresses the importance of brain-based learning, ACE (adverse childhood experiences), trauma-informed education, resilience, stress management, SEL (social emotional learning), BTAM (behavioral threat assessment management) and why kindness matters. The program is filled with “tips from the trenches” to help you keep students safe and healthy so they can learn more and live better. He offers honesty, humor and hope that everyone can Make a Difference.

Sroka has spoken worldwide with The Power of One message, how one person can Make a Difference. He died while presenting a school in-service. Two SRO’s, a principal, two school psychologists (one being his daughter) and others saved his life and changed his message. He usually delivers life-saving information to audiences, and this time the audience saved his life. He now talks about The Power of Many, how it takes a team to make a difference. It has been said that his presentations change your life professionally and personally.

Programs:
Community appropriate, culturally sensitive, tailored to your audience.
The goals are to help teach life skills, be safe and increase academic achievement. The participants leave with an unforgettable message that with education, helping one another, and believing in oneself, one can change schools, communities and lives.

Professional/Community Programs:
Keynotes and workshops tailored to your audience. Suggested titles include:

Keynotes:

√ The Power of One. The Power of Many. It’s all about Trusted Relationships.

√ Heartware before Hardware.

√ Getting to the Heart of Education- Listening to the Whole Student.

√ School Safety, Student Success and Leadership are all about Trusted Relationships.

√ You have The Power of One to start a fire, but you need The Power of Many to keep the fire burning. (Native American and First Nations presentation)

Workshop:
     √ Teaching to a T: An innovative, interactive, and inspirational technique to help develop the skills to build relationships, partnerships and leadership. This strategy has been successfully used for student and staff trainings at the local, state, national, and international levels as well as for community and business organizations. It has been used effectively with the most reluctant learners and in areas with students with high dropout rates, as well as with in-services for the highest-level administrators of state departments of education and health.