SHARING RURAL SOLUTIONS

Registration is now open for 2025!

February 25 – February 26, 2025 | Georgetown, TX

Sheraton Austin Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center

Rural Schools 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!

 

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 Speaker

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.