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Dr. Johanna Even
KIPP Schools
Houston, Texas
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Johanna Even is the Deputy Head of Primary Schools for KIPP Schools. Johanna began her career in education in 1992 with Teach for America as a bilingual kindergarten and 1st grade teacher in Los Angeles, CA. After four years of full time classroom teaching, she returned to graduate school to pursue her master’s degree and doctorate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. While in graduate school, she worked as a literacy coach and whole school change coach in the Boston Public Schools. After graduation, she served as the Principal of the John D. Philbrick School in Boston from 2002-2004. In 2004 she relocated to Phoenix to become the Principal of Marshall Humphrey Elementary School. She moved to Houston in July 2009 to accept her current position. She lives in Sugar Land, Texas with her husband, Duane, and her three dogs.
What Johanna is saying about Mental Karate:
"Mental Karate has given me the tools to develop meaningful, action-based learning that empowers my students to be the best they can be—every day."
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Steve Ritter
Team Clock Institute, CEO/Founder
Elmhurst, Illinois
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Steve Ritter is an internationally recognized expert on team dynamics whose clients include Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, and many educational organizations. He is on the faculty of Elmhurst College where he earned the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Steve is the former Senior Vice President, Director of Human Resources at Leaders Bank, named the #1 Best Place to Work in Illinois in 2006 and provides ongoing workplace culture consultation to many thriving companies including Kraft, Advocate Health Care, and Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. Steve is also the acclaimed author of Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams.
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Mawi Asgedom
Mental Karate, President/Founder
Chicago, Illinois
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Mawi Asgedom has written six books that are used in thousands of classrooms across North America and spoken to over 750,000 students and educators in more than forty states. A nationally recognized educator, Mawi has trained leaders at The Harvard School of Education, The Midwest Principals Center, and numerous international conferences. Mawi is the president of Mental Karate, an organization that has helped youth take over 100,000 inspired actions across the U.S. and Canada.
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Mike Fitzgerald
Principal, Eisenhower Junior High
Darien, Illinois
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Mike Fitzgerald is Principal of Eisenhower Junior High in Darien, Illinois. He received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University and began working at Eisenhower in 1997. Mike has been in a position to see the building from many different perspectives, as he has worked at Eisenhower as a student-teacher, a teaching assistant, summer custodian and classroom teacher before receiving his Master’s degree from Northern Illinois University in Educational Administration. In 2002 he took over the role of Assistant Principal, and in 2006 as Principal of EJH. He has been in charge of District 61’s teacher recertification, and has been heavily involved in the district’s staff development. This past year he took over and revamped the District 61’s new teacher mentoring program. He has emphasized the importance of technology at Eisenhower by finding resources for smart technology, creating teacher and parent blogs, using Twitter(@fitzg) to find and distribute resources for his staff and has even had two virtual staff meetings. He strongly believes character education and community service need to be a big part of a students’ educational experience at the junior high level. Mike lives in Plainfield with his wife Laura and daughters Mia and Julia.
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Clayton A. Muhammad
Chief Spokesman, East Aurora Schools
Founder/Director, Boys II Men
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Clayton Muhammad is a renown educator, prolific public speaker, and founder of Boys II Men. Mental Karate Founder Mawi Asgedom says of Clayton, "Clayton is one of the most dynamic and inspiring speakers on the planet. Hear him once and you will never be the same."
Clayton's full bio.
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