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"When we learn how to teach, we must also consider what it will feel like to teach."
KEYNOTES, CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
All topics are interactive and can be presented within an in-person or virtual format to both small and large groups.
For availability, personalized topics, and information, connect with Diane.
PAC-TE CONFERENCE 2025
Session Speaker
Diane has the honor of leading a session at the renowned PAC-TE Conference in Harrisburg, PA this Fall. Her session titled "Empowered, Not Overpowered: Mindset Shifts and the 4 R's Framework for Resilient Teaching" will focus on the emotional challenges today's teachers face, particularly our newest teachers, and how we can maintain our resilience and empowerment through a validated method called the 4 R's Strategy.
HAPPENING DECEMBER 2025!
Professional Development Speaker | Bucks County I.U.
Diane will speak with instructional coaches in Bucks County, PA and will emphasize that teaching is deeply emotional work that requires educators to understand themselves on a deeper level. She will highlight the importance of building resilience and will share specific, practical strategies to help instructional coaches teach their teachers how to maintain emotional regulation in the face of daily challenges. Her session will encourage coaches to support their teams in navigating the emotional demands of teaching while fostering a stronger sense of purpose and balance.
KEY TOPICS:
*The 4 R's Framework
*The Power of With
*Control vs. Influence
*Dare to be Different
Explore past events with Diane highlighting key concepts from Teaching is Emotional™—designed to inspire, equip, and strengthen resilience in both pre-service and current teachers.
CENTENNIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
JUNE 2025
In this highly engaging Keynote presentation, Diane delivered her story of intrapersonal awareness and emotional fatigue to the K-12 teachers at Centennial School District for their Teacher Wellness Professional Development. Diane taught how teaching is an emotional profession and how teachers can fall into the control trap with emotional dysregulation. Diane shared specific empowerment and resilient strategies including The 4 R's Framework, to move teachers from frustration and burn-out to enthusiasm, reconnection, purpose, and overcoming.
KEY TOPICS:
*Teacher Beliefs
*Control vs. Influence
*The 4 R's Framework
*Dare to be Different & Power of Nostalgia
KING'S COLLEGE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
Student-Teaching Banquet
MAY 2025
Diane spoke to the graduating pre-service teachers, Class of 2025, from King's College during their Student-Teaching Banquet about the power they have as teachers to influence, build, save, serve, and motivate our most precious and vulnerable students. Utilizing Mother Teresa's empowering words from her poem "Build Anyway," Diane expressed the influence we have as teachers and the decisions we can make, even when faced with challenges, unexpected struggles, and the daily details.
KEY TOPICS:
*Dare to be Different
*Behavior is Communication
*Build, Serve, Create, Influence Anyway
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
March 2025
Through this interactive, audience-engaged presentation, Diane shared how teaching is an emotional profession with emotional highlights and challenges with a focus on how to maintain resilience and the importance of emotional strength.
KEY TOPICS:
*Power Language
*The 4 R's Framework
*Dare to be Different
BUCKS COUNTY I.U.
BOOK STUDY FACILITATOR
ACT 48 credit hours
Fall 2024 &
Winter 2025
Each week, Diane provided an agenda, discussion topics, key quotes, strategies, meaningful takeaways, and feedback forms to study the topic of teaching through emotional strength.
KEY TOPICS:
*Takeaway strategy each week
*Validations and shared experiences
KSLA
KEYSTONE STATE LITERACY ASSOCIATION
virtual PRESENTER
February 2025
Diane focused on the necessity of intrapersonal awareness in teaching as the foundation for emotional strength and resilience.
KEY TOPICS:
*Influence vs. Control
*Behavior is Communication
*Teacher Self-Awareness Chart
PETE & C CONFERENCE
SPEAKER | Storyteller Session
February 2025
Diane shared her story of triumph and learning from feeling overwhelmed and self-doubting to resilient, empowered, and reconnected with why she started teaching in the first place.
KEY TOPICS:
*We all have a story to learn and to share
*Intrapersonal Understanding & Acceptance
*Strategies toward Empowerment
Teaching is two parts: physical and emotional. teaching can be more about self-management than content management, which is why teachers must continually work on building their emotional strength.
EFSHAR Project | Colorado
virtual PRESENTER
January 2025
Diane taught that the emotions we experience in teaching can come from even our youngest learners: pre-school students and what we can do to maintain our emotional regulation and purpose.
KEY TOPICS:
*In charge, not in control
*Teacher Beliefs
*Brain Science - Amygdala and Pre-Frontal Cortex
EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY
SPEAKER | Speaker Series
October 2024
Utilizing audience engagement and interactive features, Diane shared her story of how she came to understand that teaching is an emotional profession and what our newest teachers can do to maintain their resilience in the classroom to stay healthy, positive teachers throughout their careers.
KEY TOPICS:
*In Charge, not in Control
*The Power of With
*The 4 R's
PACTE CONFERENCE
SPEAKER | Book Club Session
October 2024
Diane introduced professors and teachers to the importance of our pre-service teachers learning about the emotionality of teaching, so they have strategies to make them emotionally strong, resilient teachers as well as strong lesson-plan ready teachers.
KEY TOPICS:
*Teaching is Emotional
*Teacher Beliefs
*Intrapersonal Awareness & Personal Triggers
the emotional challenges of teaching can come from any place and from anyone.
the important part of the work is to determine what to do with the emotional heaviness and struggle, in order to stay resilient and passionate about teaching.
KING'S COLLEGE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SEPTEMBER 2024
Diane spoke to the Education Department at King's College during their Convocation Event, highlighting the paths teachers can take and how to stay on a positive, serving, purpose-driven path with arms wide open.
KEY TOPICS:
*Both/And Concept
*Teaching is Emotional
*Teaching with Arms Wide Open
KING'S COLLEGE
GUEST LECTURER | virtual
SEPTEMBER 2024
Diane joined the professors and students of King's College EDUC 424 Course: Family Involvement and Connection as a virtual guest lecturer. In this guest-session, Diane taught students the value of intrapersonal awareness and how to build connection with families through "The Power of With," open communication, language strategies to open communication, and methods to connect with students.
KEY TOPICS:
*Both/And Concept
*The Way to the With
*Conversation Starters & Maintaining Communication
HATBORO-HORSHAM S.D.
NEW-TEACHER INDUCTION | Guest Speaker
AUGUST 2024
Diane spoke to the Year 2 teachers at Hatboro-Horsham School District about her story going through emotional challenges and surprises as well as emotional fatigue from overwork and lack of boundaries to resilience and empowerment. This interactive, group-oriented presentation produced meaningful conversation through key questions, relatable topics, and sharing. Year 2 teachers left understanding that teaching is emotional and how to navigate its challenges with positivity, joy, and resilience.
KEY TOPICS:
*In charge, Not in Control
*A.N.T.S. & how to move through A.N.T.S.
*Dare to Be Different
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
GUEST LECTURER
APRIL 2024
Diane spoke to Graduate and Undergraduate teachers and pre-service teachers about resilience and intrapersonal awareness in teaching, utilizing personal stories, examples, group discussion, and interactive features. Students interacted with their own examples and by asking questions of Diane and each other to gain personal understanding to their own experiences and resilience strategies to incorporate into their own classrooms.
KEY TOPICS:
*In charge, Not in Control
*Both/And
*Power Language
*Dare to be Different
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