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Seven Exciting
DBC Happenings in 2020
by Dave & Shelley Burgess
This week we want to share with you seven things we are excited about in 2020!
1. The First #dbcPIRATEcon
It drops in San Diego June 12th-14th, 2020. For years, many of you have asked us to host a conference featuring the great educators and authors we work with at DBC, and we have finally taken the leap. We’re not gonna lie… it’s a bit overwhelming, but we are committed to creating a fantastic experience for all of YOU. We are so thrilled that so many of our authors have agreed to join us - the line up is simply amazing! We could not pull this off without each of them stepping up and making space on their calendars for this event. And… there is no way we could do it without Wendy and Tara - thank you both for all your hard work. We hope you can join us in June! We are SO looking forward to the opportunity to meet so many of YOU...our incredible PLN face to face and in real life!! It will be a highlight of 2020 for us, for sure!
Click HERE for more info!
2. Book Releases From Some of Your Favorite Authors
We are so excited about the line up of books we have coming out in 2020! And we are especially thrilled to have some of your favorite authors releasing new books this year… Hope and Wade King are back with their new children’s book, The Wild Card Kids released this past week! Check it out HERE! You can also expect new books from Jimmy Casas, Jennifer Casa-Todd, Christine Pinto, Bethany Petty, and Kim Bearden. Alice Keeler has her newest Google Classroom book hitting the shelves later this spring. Todd Nesloney and Adam Dovico have teamed up and written a GREAT new book about the magic that happens when kids lead. Adam Welcome and Rae Hughart are also working on a project together about what teachers deserve! Ryan McLane and Eric Lowe are also back together working on a new book on parent engagement. AND... a book we have ALL been waiting for and the next book in the PIRATE series… Tech Like a PIRATE written by Matt Miller will be out just in time for your summer read. Spoiler alert… We’ve had a sneak peek, and it is SOOO fantastic!
3. Book Releases Emphasizing Equity, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, and Social Justice
We are thrilled to be releasing several books on these topics. We are working with some dynamic educators to bring you some powerful resources in this space. We know they will help all of us deepen our understanding of these critical issues and raise the bar for us in how we do our work. Be on the lookout for a new LeadLAP guide, Lead for Equity, by Rosa Perez-Isiah. Also, LaNesha Tabb and Naomi O’Brien have a fabulous book about the incredible social studies work they do in their classrooms that elevate ALL cultures. Pamela Seda and Kyndall Brown are working on a title to help us better understand what equity looks like in a math classroom, and Amber Coleman-Mortley will share her thoughts with us on Fearlessly Facing Race. And… we expect DBC, Inc.’s very own Marisol Rerucha to release her book on restorative practices before the year is out.
4. Blogging Bonanza
Dave and I have both committed to upping our blogging and content creation game in 2020. You can expect AT LEAST one blog per week from Dave at daveburgess.com and at least once per week from us over at leadlikeapirate.net. I’m also working with Beth Houf on our next book! We expect to have the draft completed by the end of February and then a fall, 2020 release! We have a few other surprises in store for you this year, so stay tuned!
5. Dave's New Program
As we ring in the new year, Dave is thrilled to introduce a new keynote program. He has taken all of his infectious energy and infused it into a program about entrepreneurship. He dives deep into the work he has done to take something that he was deeply passionate about and turn it into a thriving business doing something he loves. The program is inspirational, imminently practical and breaks down the process of how you too can “make your own snow”. He is looking forward to sharing the program with entrepreneurs across the country in 2020. Don’t worry… if you love his Teach Like a PIRATE keynotes and workshops, they aren’t going anywhere. He will continue to spread the TLAP message wherever he can!
6. DBC Speakers
It’s something we don't highlight often enough, but we really should! Did you know that you can book many of your favorite DBC authors to speak through DBC? One of the things we love about our authors is the passion they have for their work and their desire to share that with all of you in any way they can. One way several of them spread their message is through speaking events. Many of them also enjoy doing Google Hangouts with groups doing book studies.
If you are looking for opportunities to connect and learn with DBC authors, let us know! You can check out our 2020 Speaker Line-Up HERE, or simply contact Wendy at Wendy@daveburgessconsulting.com.
7. Weekly #DBCchallenge
Do you like FREE books?! Here’s how you might win one every single week! Every Sunday (in Sunday Seven), Tara will drop a Twitter link to our #DbcChallenge--a challenge question, or thought to consider. All entries (responses on Twitter) will be entered to win a DBC book of CHOICE and a possible GOLDEN Treasure.
To enter:
Comment with your answer
Like and Retweet the promo
Follow us on @dbc_inc
Include the hashtags #DBCchallenge & #tlap
Randomly selected winners will be selected every Saturday following the challenge and highlighted in the next week's Sunday Seven.
Check out this week’s #DbcChallenge and last week's winners on Twitter @dbc_inc.
*If you’re not on Twitter and need a little support, here is a resource Tara has created called Twitter Stuff 101 to get you started.
We are looking forward to our DBC, Inc. 2020 journey! Thank you for all of your continued support!!
- Dave & Shelley
DBC Pirate Con 2020
Preliminary Schedule Available NOW!
Joining us for the #dbcPIRATEcon?
Want to see who's speaking at #dbcPIRATEcon 2020 and the session titles offered? We've got YOU!
The Speaker & Preliminary Session Schedule is available NOW!!
Click HERE (or the image below) to see our outstanding lineup!
Conference T-Shirt Reveal
Wow!!! Here it is!! The reveal of the #dbcPIRATEcon t-shirt!!!
Congrats to Joshua Stamper who won free registration for this design concept.
Author Opens Store to Give Back
Tom Murray, author of Personal and Authentic (a book from our IMpress line), opens a store and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to innovative research, treatments, and awareness for those who live in fear every day and suffer from life-threatening food allergies. Wow! This is incredible! Read more about it, below.
Tom Shares Why He Opened the Personal & Authentic Store
We'll never be able to fully describe what it was like running into the ER screaming for an Epi-Pen to save the life of our little girl when she was ten months old. Life changed for us on that day.
Not a day has gone by in the past nine years where we don't think twice about what our little girl eats, knowing that due to the severity of her food allergies, consuming the wrong thing could be fatal. It was something that I wrote about regarding the "Hidden Stories Within" in my new book Personal & Authentic.
Two and a half years ago, Paisley began a new innovative treatment (Oral Immunotherapy - "OIT") to take on her sesame allergy, as one seed of sesame could have taken her life. Over the course of 15 months, she missed 35 days of school for therapy, traveled 10,000 miles, spent 180 hours in the car, and showed more courage than any child should have to during that period. She was brave. She was fearless. She now consumes the equivalent of 2,000 seeds per day to keep her safe.
Today, I open the Personal & Authentic store in her honor, where 100% of the net proceeds will go to benefit the innovative research, treatments, and awareness for those who live in fear every day and suffer from life-threatening food allergies.
I'd love for you to check it out here:
thomascmurray.com/store
This one is for you, Paisley Addison. 💗 We love you. xo
-Tom
Journal Like a PIRATE
Ready to get serious about tracking your 2020 journey?!
We are proud to offer you a journaling and planning system intentionally designed with incredible flexibility because we truly believe that there is no one right way to journal. This 14-week planner combines several design features into one system that can be personalized and adapted to your own style. We encourage you to make it your own!
Coming Soon: Lead Like a PIRATE Audiobook
Beth Houf and Shelley Burgess had a blast recording the Lead Like a PIRATE audiobook this month. Look for the audio release in early spring 2020!!
If you'd like to check out the the paperback version of their manifesto, click HERE.
What's New?
New Book Releases
The Wild Card Kids
Available for Pre-Order
by Hope & Wade King
The Collaborative Classroom
by Trevor Muir
New Book Releases
It's Ok to Say They
by Christy Whittlesey
Reality Bytes
by Christine Lion-Bailey, Jesse Lubinsky, Micah Dhippee, PhD
DBC Happenings
- George Couros and Katie Novak will be starting an Instagram Book Study on January 22, 2020, on their co-authored book, “Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset.” There are three main goals of this book study: Click HERE to learn how to get involved. Three goals of the Book Study are listed below.
- To dig deeper into the ideas of the book and learn/model UDL learning strategies.
- To encourage different multimedia creation to actively reflect and create meaningful learning opportunities.
- To use spaces like Instagram to build networks with other educators who are interested in the top of innovation in education. Click HERE to sign up TODAY!
- EDrenaline Rush Book Study
What if going to school captured the thrills and excitement of an amusement park? Could classroom activities elicit the same sense of exhilaration you feel when charging the hill in a mud run? And how much more engaged would our students be if a curriculum was filled with the same mystery and mastery you’d expect from a twisting escape room of puzzles and surprises?
Join DBC author, John Meehan, and teachers around the world on the free wallow talkie app Voxer for a pulse pounding thrill ride through the pages of EDrenaline Rush. It’s a new year of high-energy brainstorming, broken down into bite-sized chunks and presented ON YOUR SCHEDULE so you can jump in as deep or as often as you like. Share voice, photo, and text messages with fellow teachers looking to change the game in schools all around the world, and have 24/7 access to an ongoing digital “book study” designed to help you change the game!
We’d love to have you join the party! For complete details, visit his website HERE! - Annick Rauch & Nicol Didcote would to have you and your schools join them for Growth Mindset Global Read Aloud, which starts Monday, January, 13, 2020! Click HERE (or image below) for more details! *Look!! One of our very own children's books, Cannonball In by Tara Martin, is part of the fun! #MindsetMondayLRSD
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