SHARING RURAL SOLUTIONS

Registration is now open for 2025!

February 25 – February 26, 2025 | Georgetown, TX

Sheraton Austin Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center

ESC Region 13 and System of Service Centers Rural Schools Spring Conference

Texas Rural Schools Spring Conference is about collaborating with fellow educators who work in rural schools to share successful strategies for this unique educational setting. 

Participants will leave with innovative tools and strategies for immediate application in their campus or district. Last year, topics included teacher retention and recruitment, remote coaching, PLCs, accountability, and so much more!  

There will be highly engaging breakout sessions, inspiring keynote speakers, and rich discussions with peers.

Don’t miss out on this chance to grow your network and impact student growth!

 

The Texas Rural Education Association (TREA) is proud to partner with ESC 13 in providing resources to educators in small and rural schools. TREA is affiliated with the National Rural Education Association (NREA) and can provide a national perspective to Texas educators.

Bill Tarleton

Executive Director, Texas Rural Education Association

School leaders in rural schools wear many hats. This conference provides insight and reminds us we are not alone in our endeavor but have a support system as big as Texas!

Jessi M.

I am the only elementary principal in our district. The Rural Schools Conference allows me to connect with other elementary principals and focus on my own growth as a campus leader.

Jowie W.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Adolph Brown

Dr. Adolph Brown, III affectionately known as “Doc Brown” as well as “The World’s Greatest Edutainer,” without a doubt, offers the most uniquely inspiring, relevant, hilarious, and entertaining yet profoundly challenging master classes and presentations around.  As the world-renowned clinical psychologist and master teacher, Dr. Adolph “Doc” Brown, III is considered the best mental health speaker and top education expert most have ever experienced.  He is also an American businessman, parenting & relationship expert, clinical psychologist, investor, author, master teacher, urban and rural school educator, research-scientist, and keynote speaker.

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He is a servant-leader at heart, a life-long mental health & safes spaces advocate, a renowned parent/family television host and career teacher educator.  He is admired around the world for his simple and direct “Real Talk,” and powerful, universal and timeless teachings.  Dr. Brown is one of the world’s most trusted mental health, parenting, and relationship experts.  Over the past three decades, he has helped innumerable families and couples with his master classes and books about rearing children and maintaining healthy adult relationships.  Dr. Brown has the track record to prove his techniques work.  For over 30 years as a well-respected research-practitioner and academician, Dr. Brown has researched, field-tested, and implemented a set of concrete strategies used to support and enhance schools and businesses around the world.  Dr. Brown is best known for inspiring excellence and intellectually enlightening all who hear him to learn, laugh and lead.  He is also the leading provider of psychological  safety training in business and education.  He is highly regarded as the “balcony” human leadership advisor, and highly skilled peak performance coach who gets you from where you are to where you want to be while having the most fun ever.  Also as a tenured full professor and credentialed Master Teacher, he helps teachers reach every student.  As a much sought-after and highly effective safe spaces keynote speaker, Dr. Brown skillfully addresses the impact of stereotypes. He credits much of his success to the luxury of humble beginnings of being reared by a single parent mother in abject poverty of the inner city housing projects infested with gangs, drugs and violence.  His oldest sibling and only brother Oscar was murdered when Adolph was only eleven years old.  Young Adolph often received a respite when he was sent to spend summers with his grandfather in rural farming country, and when he was sent to the library for time-outs in elementary school.  Adolph became the first in his family of five to participate in Head Start, graduate high school, and attend college.

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Wendi Russell

Wendi Russell is the State Director and Chief Curriculum Officer for TCMPC. She has 35 years of educational experience behind her. Wendi has 11 years of experience as a classroom teacher and 22 years as a Principal, Curriculum Director and Superintendent of Schools. She has served in rural districts across the state and understands how important it is to have an affordable, viable, research based, aligned curriculum resources for all students. 

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Meredith Stadler

Meredith has been a lifelong believer in the power of education. After graduating from Texas A&M University, Meredith began her journey as an educator in a 6th grade ELA classroom. Currently, she is the Professional Development Coordinator for Texas Curriculum Management Program Cooperative, and deeply enjoys the collaborative work she does in partnership with ESCs as they endeavor to support TCMPC implementation in their regions.

Featured Speaker

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Nicholas Keith

Nicholas Keith is the Associate Commissioner of Curriculum and Instruction at the Texas Education Agency. With nearly 20 years of experience in Texas public schools, he was a teacher and instructional coach for more than a decade, served in central office curriculum roles, and, prior to TEA, was the Chief Academic Officer for Crowley ISD. In his current role, he oversees Open Education Resources (OER) development, as well as Math and Reading Academies.