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Douglas B. Fisher, PhD

Chair, Department of Educational Leadership, San Diego State University; Classroom Teacher, Health Sciences High and Middle College; Co-Author, Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers (Forthcoming), Rigor Unveiled (Forthcoming), Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning (2023), The Vocabulary Playbook: Learning Words That Matter (2023), Teaching Reading (2022), Confronting the Crisis in Engagement (2022), and Improving Adolescent Literacy (2011)

Events

The Science of Learning

Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel or Virtually via Zoom April 25-27, 2025

Teaching Stronger Brains

Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom February 20-22, 2025

Final Keynote: Building Educator Agency and Optimism: How a Strength-Based Approach Can Help Educators Unleash Their Own and Their Students' Full Potential

STRONGER LEARNERS & INDEPENDENCE
Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning

Future-Ready Brains

NY Sheraton Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom April 18-20, 2024

Teaching Reading
Teaching Reading: Fostering Critical Thinking and Comprehension

Life-Long Engaged Brains
Regulated and Engaged: Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning

Teaching Emotional Brains

Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA or Virtually via Zoom November 22-24, 2024

Making Friends With AI
Timesaving Tools for Teachers

ADVERSITY & RESILIENCE
Responses to Adversity: Building on Strengths to Address Emotional Brains

Teaching Behaved Brains

The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom February 17-19, 2023

Executive Brains & Labels
Removing Labels: Techniques for Disrupting Negative Expectations About Students

Behaved Brains & Motivation
Confronting the Crisis of Engagement: Creating Focus and Resilience for Students and Schools

The Science of Teaching

The Fairmont, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom February 18-20, 2022

Keynote Address III: REBOUND: Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools

COVID Lessons Learned
COVID Lessons Learned for Accelerated Learning and Engagement

Teaching Purposeful Brains

Virtual Conference April 17-18, 2021

Purposeful Classrooms
Purposeful, Meaningful Classrooms: Establishing Purpose for Yourself and Your Students

The Science of Teaching During a Pandemic

Virtual Conference February 20, 2021

Comprehension: A New Model of Reading Instruction to Foster Motivation and Engagement (K-12)

Option Two
Keynote: The Distance Learning Playbook: Improving Engagement and Assessment in Any Setting

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Online Seminar April 18, 2020-N/A

Social-Emotional Brains in Schools

Virtual Conference November 7-8, 2020

SEL in Distance Learning
3. SEL from a Distance: Teaching for Engagement and Social-Emotional Growth in an Online Learning Environment

Behavior & Inclusive Schools
Empowering All Learners: Creating Socially and Emotionally Engaged, Safe, and Inclusive Classrooms

Educating Anxious Brains

The Fairmont Hotel and the Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA February 14-16, 2020

Relationships & Teaching
Building Teacher Credibility and Collective Efficacy

Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma: Creating Safe and Nurturing Classrooms for Learning

Social-Emotional Learning
All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Educating with Empathy

The Historic Fairmont Hotel, Atop Nob Hill,
San Francisco, CA February 15-17, 2019

Visible Literacy
Visible Learning for Literacy

Nurturing Collaboration
Building Collaboration and Collective Student Efficacy

The Science of Innovation

The Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA February 15-17, 2018

Relationships & Clarity
Engagement by Design: The Impact of Relationships, Clarity, and Challenge

Visible Literacy & Learning
Visible Learning in Literacy

The Science of How We Learn

Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA February 17-19, 2017

ABOUT US

Speaker ProfileBACK TO DIRECTORY

Douglas B. Fisher, PhD

Final Keynote: Building Educator Agency and Optimism: How a Strength-Based Approach Can Help Educators Unleash Their Own and Their Students' Full Potential

STRONGER LEARNERS & INDEPENDENCE Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning

Teaching Reading Teaching Reading: Fostering Critical Thinking and Comprehension

Life-Long Engaged Brains Regulated and Engaged: Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning

Making Friends With AI Timesaving Tools for Teachers

ADVERSITY & RESILIENCE Responses to Adversity: Building on Strengths to Address Emotional Brains

Executive Brains & Labels Removing Labels: Techniques for Disrupting Negative Expectations About Students

Behaved Brains & Motivation Confronting the Crisis of Engagement: Creating Focus and Resilience for Students and Schools

Keynote Address III: REBOUND: Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools

COVID Lessons Learned COVID Lessons Learned for Accelerated Learning and Engagement

Purposeful Classrooms Purposeful, Meaningful Classrooms: Establishing Purpose for Yourself and Your Students

Comprehension: A New Model of Reading Instruction to Foster Motivation and Engagement (K-12)

Option Two Keynote: The Distance Learning Playbook: Improving Engagement and Assessment in Any Setting

SEL in Distance Learning 3. SEL from a Distance: Teaching for Engagement and Social-Emotional Growth in an Online Learning Environment

Behavior & Inclusive Schools Empowering All Learners: Creating Socially and Emotionally Engaged, Safe, and Inclusive Classrooms

Relationships & Teaching Building Teacher Credibility and Collective Efficacy