Advice to My Adolescent Self: Three Keys Moving into Your Future

In this talk, we share three key messages that students can take with them on their journey into adulthood. Each message is intended to help tear down self-limiting beliefs that could become barriers if not explored in young adulthood:

• Your most important relationship is with yourself.
• Mistake-making moves you closer to success.
• Love yourself as you love your best friend.

Building Systems of Care for Transformational Leadership

This keynote dives into the crucial role of self-care and collective-care in transformational leadership, with a special focus on trauma-informed care. Participants will explore three interconnected levels of care—self, group, and system— understanding how nurturing each contributes to school and district leaders thriving professionally and emotionally. The talk integrates trauma-informed care principles, offering practical strategies to empower leaders in fostering healing and resilience within themselves, their teams, and the broader community.

Merging Theory and Practice to Create Sustainable Change

In order to achieve and sustain equitable excellence, three elements must be in place: the structure to achieve that excellence, the process to take the necessary steps to it, and the mindset that will not quit. During this keynote, we will explore how each element complements the others and how all three must be leveraged to achieve true and sustainable progress. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of each core element, ready to reflect on how they are or are not represented in their current school environment and, if not, ready to enact new ideas to make it happen.

Self-Talk: Reimagining Purpose and Communication with Yourself

During this talk, teachers and principals will engage in a process of reflection to examine how their belief systems evolve over time and serve as opportunities or barriers that lead to innovation. These concepts are centered around ethical considerations of right and justice as a framework to move toward cultural proficiency. At the end of the session, participants will gain strategies that will support them to further align their words to actions as an integral part of cultivating equitable principles in themselves and their communities.

TEDx Newburgh

A child’s journey into adulthood requires the ability to ebb and flow. It requires the ability to be flexible and firm at different parts of their journey. It also requires that the teachers around and in front of them are aware enough to grant grace and hold them accountable in ways that are nurturing, constructive, and insightful. Dr. Ebony Green believes, however, that teachers shape and build students. It was, in fact, a teacher who first cultivated the belief within her that she was enough and that she lacked nothing. That very sentiment would unleash a fire within her to become who she is.