Join us Monday, January 27, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST for
Effective Communication for Educators: Build Rapport, Establish Trust, and Navigate All Conversations
Presented by Dr. Alison Wood Brooks, O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School;
In conversation with Dr. Ruth Best, Assistant Dean, and Dr. Jenny Tellez, Assistant Professor and Program Director, both from the California School of Education at Alliant International University.
Penguin Random House Education and Alliant International University have again partnered to bring authors and educational leaders together for edWebinars that provide expertise, guidance, and resources to educators seeking to amplify their impacts.
Regardless of your role as an educator, how you communicate can directly impact your relationship with students, colleagues, and parents. This edWebinar will focus on approaches and strategies to help educators build rapport, establish trust, and navigate not just the difficult conversations but the little ones in between. Whether through face-to-face interactions or communication via phone, email, text, or even social media, learning how to have better conversations can empower you and members of your communities of practice to contribute, collaborate, and build a positive school culture.
This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers, school leaders, district leaders, pre-service teachers, and higher education professionals. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenter
Dr. Alison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she created and teaches a course called TALK. As a behavioral scientist, she is a leading expert on the science of conversation. Her award-winning research has been published in top academic journals and is regularly cited in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and NPR. Her research was referenced in two of the top ten most-viewed TED Talks of all time and depicted in Pixar’s Inside Out 2. In 2021, she was named a Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professor by Poets & Quants.
About the Moderators
Dr. Ruth Best is Assistant Dean of the School of Education at Alliant International University. She holds an Ed.D. with a concentration in Teacher Leadership from Walden University, a Master of Science in Education (Honors) from City College of New York, a Master of Business Administration, Financial Management from Pace University, and a Bachelor of Science from Concordia College. She is also a 2020 Clinical Practice Fellow (Association of Teacher Educators). Dr. Best’s career in education began as a New York City Teaching Fellow where she worked in the South Bronx as a special education teacher. She later served as a New York City Public Schools Citywide District 75 mentor and coach for beginning teachers at schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx. A passion for staff development and mentoring brought her to higher education full time in 2007 where she served as Director of Induction, The New Teacher Residency Program (NTRP), Mercy University. In 2014, Dr. Best joined Touro University’s Graduate School of Education to serve through 2023 as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Clinical Experiences and Partnerships.
Dr. Jenny Tellez is a former high school administrator and now serves as the Program Director and an Assistant Professor within the Ed.D. and Administrative Services Credential programs and is the CalAPA Coordinator. Dr. Tellez teaches school administration, doctoral studies, and dissertation planning, preparation, and proposal courses. She has also served teams and organizations in various leadership capacities and enjoys mentoring students in following their own educational endeavors and passions. She works to foster an environment that values diversity, learning, and professionalism while maintaining a dedicated focus on organizational effectiveness and student success.
