2022-2023 Speakers
How can parents and educators best support and maximize the strengths of “differently wired” children?
When more than 20% of young people today are neurodiverse, how can parents and educators best support and maximize the strengths of these "differently wired" children?
On Wednesday, March 29th from 7:00-8:00pm, parenting activist and podcaster Debbie Reber joined SPEAK in person at The San Francisco School to share her insights on the challenges neurodiverse and twice exceptional kids face in and out of school. Reber, founder of Tilt Parenting and author of Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World, also highlighted strategies to positively shift the way these children are seen, understood and supported.
Actions Matter: Combating Harassment in Our Community
While shopping you witness a Black teenager being followed by a sales associate. There are other people in there, but the sales associate only follows the Black teen. What do you do?
While waiting in line to buy coffee you see a man approach a customer in line and say, “why are you dressed like a sissy? Aren’t you a man?” The customer in line does not respond but the man continues and calls the customer in line a gay slur. What do you do?
Have you ever been in a situation where you witnessed a person being harassed but you froze and kept silent because you didn’t know what to do or how to help? Do you feel equipped to support your children on what to do if they witness harassment?
SPEAK and Right To Be hosted a very important interactive virtual training session for parents, guardians, teachers, and school administrators. Leveraging real-life scenarios participants learned how to respond and safely intervene when witnessing harassment with Right to Be’s proven methodology. Participants left the training with a toolbox of techniques and felt empowered to make a change with simple, creative, and effective action.
Three Tales Of Parenthood
On October 26th from 7:00pm-8:15pm SPEAK was thrilled to host Kelly Corrigan for an in person event at The Hamlin School.Kelly spoke about “Three Tales Of Parenthood”, a humorous yet insightful account of her personal journey of parenting children through elementary, high school, and now college.
Kelly has written four New York Times bestselling memoirs in the last decade, earning her the title of “The Poet Laureate of the Ordinary” from the Huffington Post and the “Voice of a Generation” from O Magazine. She is also the host of the highly popular podcast, Kelly Corrigan Wonders as well as the PBS hit show “Tell Me More” where she has interviewed some of the top change-makers in the world such as Jennifer Garner and Steve Kerr. This event covered a mixture of light-hearted and deep topics and was able to teach everyone a little something about parenting!