It’s all about Relationships.
A keynote presentation that is an educational journey, based on research and reality, to pump up your life and have some fun as we struggle to get to the heart of education in order to reach, teach and protect.
Trusted relationships may be the most important variable for effective learning, leading and living.
The challenges of building relationships are based on the 4 C’s: Communication, Collaboration, Cultural Competency and Caring.
This motivational keynote is filled with "tips from the trenches" to help keep you and your students, staff and community safe and healthy so they can learn more and live better. It is packed with cutting-edge information, practical strategies and heartfelt stories about leadership, equity, the Whole Child, mental health, kindness, the power of words, behavioral threat assessment, the trauma-informed brain, ACEs (adverse childhood experiences), SEL (social emotional learning}, stress management, wellness, and school and community climate and safety.
Dr. Stephen Sroka has spoken worldwide with The Power of One message, how one person can make a difference. Steve died while presenting a school in-service. A principal, two SRO’s and others saved his life and changed his message. He now talks about how you need The Power of Many, how it takes a team, to make a lasting difference.
Research-based and reality-driven, this session offers honesty, humor, and hope. It stresses the importance of Resiliency and the 4 P’s: Purpose, Passion, Pride and Persistence. It will warm your heart, stir your soul and ignite your brain. It has been said that it can even change your life professionally and personally. Let’s see if it can spark the fire and the WHY within you.
Trusted relationships may be the most important variable for effective learning, leading and living.
The challenges of building relationships are based on the 4 C’s: Communication, Collaboration, Cultural Competency and Caring.
This motivational keynote is filled with "tips from the trenches" to help keep you and your students, staff and community safe and healthy so they can learn more and live better. It is packed with cutting-edge information, practical strategies and heartfelt stories about leadership, equity, the Whole Child, mental health, kindness, the power of words, behavioral threat assessment, the trauma-informed brain, ACEs (adverse childhood experiences), SEL (social emotional learning}, stress management, wellness, and school and community climate and safety.
Dr. Stephen Sroka has spoken worldwide with The Power of One message, how one person can make a difference. Steve died while presenting a school in-service. A principal, two SRO’s and others saved his life and changed his message. He now talks about how you need The Power of Many, how it takes a team, to make a lasting difference.
Research-based and reality-driven, this session offers honesty, humor, and hope. It stresses the importance of Resiliency and the 4 P’s: Purpose, Passion, Pride and Persistence. It will warm your heart, stir your soul and ignite your brain. It has been said that it can even change your life professionally and personally. Let’s see if it can spark the fire and the WHY within you.
After presenting recently at a national professional education conference, an attendee wrote,"Your presentation was the most inspiring I've ever heard."
Another wrote, "I've never known anyone who can make people cry, laugh, and reflect inwardly like you. You are the real thing!" A conference organizer wrote, "What you did at our conference for our amazing members changed our lives forever.” |
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Watch TV coverage of Dr. Stephen Sroka encouraging school staff to make a difference. Click here.
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Who is Dr. Stephen Sroka? Come along an incredible ride from the “projects” to The National Teachers Hall of Fame and far beyond.
Dr. Stephen Sroka failed the third-grade. He was raised in the “projects" by a single mother on welfare. In ES, he was mocked for having a crossed eye and a speech impediment. He was injured in a HS fight, and in a wheelchair for a year. Doctors said, “ Listen to your teachers.” The more he listened, the smarter the teachers became. His HS counselor told him that he didn’t have the IQ to go to college, but he didn’t know that Steve had the I WILL. He learned to live with the gifts of ADHD and dyslexia. His struggles to become a teacher made him a better educator.
He went from the “projects” to being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He was awarded The Walt Disney American Outstanding Teacher of Health and Physical Education and received the Outstanding School Health Educator Award and Fellow status from the American School Health Association. He recently received the William A. Howe award from ASHA. It is ASHA’s highest honor for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health. He was named the Person of the Year for The International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention and received the first-ever School Health Leader Award from the American Public Health Association. He has been a guest on Oprah and covered in USA TODAY, and recently in Education Week, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Austin American-Stateman, Campus Safety Magazine and K-12 DIVE. But his favorite “award” was when his then 6 year old daughter told him he was smarter than Inspector Gadget.
He has worked in schools (and on Native American Reservations) for over 50 years, including teaching and providing crisis intervention for 30 years in the Cleveland Public Schools. He has keynoted many major educational conferences including NSBA, AASA, NASN, NASSP, NASRO, DARE, SSWAA, STN EXPO, DEA, PTA, NASP, NEA, AFT, ASCD, UNITY, US Dept of Ed, and others.
He has traveled the world striving to reach, elevate and inspire with The Power of One message. After a cardiac arrest, he realized that The Power of One was not enough. He needed The Power of Many. Everyone does. He now believes that one person can make a lasting difference with the power of many, and that is his WHY.
Today, he is an international speaker, author, consultant, and adjunct assistant professor, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Stephen Sroka failed the third-grade. He was raised in the “projects" by a single mother on welfare. In ES, he was mocked for having a crossed eye and a speech impediment. He was injured in a HS fight, and in a wheelchair for a year. Doctors said, “ Listen to your teachers.” The more he listened, the smarter the teachers became. His HS counselor told him that he didn’t have the IQ to go to college, but he didn’t know that Steve had the I WILL. He learned to live with the gifts of ADHD and dyslexia. His struggles to become a teacher made him a better educator.
He went from the “projects” to being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He was awarded The Walt Disney American Outstanding Teacher of Health and Physical Education and received the Outstanding School Health Educator Award and Fellow status from the American School Health Association. He recently received the William A. Howe award from ASHA. It is ASHA’s highest honor for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health. He was named the Person of the Year for The International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention and received the first-ever School Health Leader Award from the American Public Health Association. He has been a guest on Oprah and covered in USA TODAY, and recently in Education Week, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Austin American-Stateman, Campus Safety Magazine and K-12 DIVE. But his favorite “award” was when his then 6 year old daughter told him he was smarter than Inspector Gadget.
He has worked in schools (and on Native American Reservations) for over 50 years, including teaching and providing crisis intervention for 30 years in the Cleveland Public Schools. He has keynoted many major educational conferences including NSBA, AASA, NASN, NASSP, NASRO, DARE, SSWAA, STN EXPO, DEA, PTA, NASP, NEA, AFT, ASCD, UNITY, US Dept of Ed, and others.
He has traveled the world striving to reach, elevate and inspire with The Power of One message. After a cardiac arrest, he realized that The Power of One was not enough. He needed The Power of Many. Everyone does. He now believes that one person can make a lasting difference with the power of many, and that is his WHY.
Today, he is an international speaker, author, consultant, and adjunct assistant professor, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
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Steve received the William A. Howe award from the American School Health Association. It is ASHA’s highest honor for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health.
There Are No Quick Fixes to School Shootings.
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The Power of Many. How SROs saved a noted school safety speaker’s live and changed his message.
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How The Power of One became The Power of Many.
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After 5 decades to teaching, 7 lessons my students taught me.
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Power or Many, Relationships Shared In TSD Opening Keynote Address
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With Frank DeAngelis, retired principal of Columbine High School.
We spoke together at the Ohio Safe Schools Summit. 
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Keynoters at the Virgin Islands Department of Education conference. Dr. Steve with Pedro Noguera,
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School Shootings: 5 Disturbing Perspectives and 5 Positive Prevention Strategies.
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If it wasn’t for CPR and AED, I would be dead. Lakewood man stresses importance of lifesaving training after Damar Hamlin incident.
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With Molly Hudgens, a school counselor at Sycamore Middle School.
She averted a school shooting and wrote, Saving Sycamore: The Shooting That Never Happened. We spoke together at the Ohio Safe Schools Summit. 
Dr. Steve with Michele Gay a co-founder of Safe and Sound Schools: A Sandy Hook Initiative.
Michele lost her daughter, Josephine Grace, at the tragic shootings. Dr. Steve and Michele both keynoted the NASRO Conference. 
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