The kid who makes you question your career choice today could someday be your doctor, a CEO, a teacher, a neighbor, or a caring politician.
I want to help teachers believe in their students' potential so deeply, care so genuinely, and invest so consistently that even the toughest kids eventually start believing in themselves just enough to make a difference.
Kenneth Applegate is an experienced educator and professional trainer specializing in communication, emotional intelligence, leadership, problem solving, and classroom management. His highly unique transformational work sits at the intersection of two worlds: helping teachers manage the classroom today while preparing students to navigate the real world tomorrow.
Kenneth believes classroom management is about far more than getting students to sit down, be quiet, and stop testing the teacher's blood pressure. Every behavior is an opportunity to teach a skill. Through practical, research-based strategies, real-world examples, discussion, and role-playing, he helps educators reduce disruptive behavior, strengthen relationships, lower stress, and create classrooms where students can actually learn.
He's not just helping teachers manage students. He's helping teachers prepare students for a world where nobody gets to send their difficult coworker to the principal's office.
But the goal goes beyond a better-managed classroom. Kenneth helps teachers connect everyday classroom interactions to the skills students will need for work and life: communicating effectively, managing emotions, solving problems, working with difficult people, taking responsibility, and navigating conflict.
Since 2007 he has delivered thousands of professional development and classroom management sessions, in person and virtually, to educators and professionals across the country and internationally, with experience spanning classrooms, schools, corporations, and public health. He is a Certified Classroom Management Trainer, a Certified Health Education Specialist, and a Certified DISC Trainer, and he brings the same skills to businesses and organizations, because whether you're standing in front of 30 students or sitting around a conference table with 30 adults, you're still dealing with people.
Training educators and organizations, first in classrooms and schools, then across corporations and public health.
Certified Classroom Management Trainer, Certified Health Education Specialist, and Certified DISC Trainer: behavior, wellbeing, and how people actually communicate.
In-person and virtual professional development for educators and professionals nationally and internationally, built on real-world examples, discussion, and role-playing.
Classroom management training for K-12 schools and districts, plus keynotes and workplace training for organizations, all focused on the human side of performance.
This was the best logical presentation on discipline I've had in twenty-three years of teaching. I have practical ideas I can use immediately. He demonstrated great knowledge of classroom practices, management, and what life is actually like in the classroom. So few do.
"One of the most immediately useful workshops I've taken. Even after 20 years."
"I've never seen anything like this. You get tools you can apply the very next day."
For K-12 schools and districts ready to give their teachers a day that actually changes Monday morning. Available across the United States.