2015 Conference Planning Committee Discussions
Keynote Option: Stacey Bess - Beyond the Blackboard

Stacey Bess is an inspirational educator and author, who speaks on the importance of service, mentorship and leadership, and overcoming adversity. Drawing on her fascinating, inspirational personal story - teaching homeless children in a small shed known as The School with No Name - she offers powerful insights and lessons that audiences yearning to make a difference can apply to their community or organization.

Through ups and downs and many personal struggles, Bess taught kindergarten through sixth grade for 11 years at The School with No Name, an experience that effected a profound change in the teacher as well as her students. During that time she discovered that, by teaching and modeling love, self worth, personal power, and courage, she could reach children with no homes and little hope, children who had previously been labeled "unteachable." These children grew into living proof that Bess's methods work. To inspire and motivate others with a passion for service, Bess penned the memoir "Nobody Don't Love Nobody," which was adapted into the 2011 Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Beyond the Blackboard, starring Emily VanCamp.

See Stacey Bess in action:  VIDEO

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