Passing judgement on students’ learning potential based on outward appearances or dysfunction often sets boys up for failure. Keynoter Robert Jackson is all too familiar with adversity but rejected the assumption that he’d end up in jail or dead by age 21 — a dismal forecast shared with him by a former teacher.
Author of the No More Excuses curriculum, Robert Jackson has been a crowd favorite at previous conferences. Robert will present a 3-hour pre-conference session entitled Salvaging Our Sons: Helping Educators Reach, Teach and Empower Young Men in Orlando.