Reignite the heart for learning, and the rest follows. That craft can be taught, and that's why I'm here.
When we focus on people first, everything changes. Reignite a teacher's heart for learning and a student's, and engagement stops being something you chase. It becomes the natural result.
Doug Rawlins has spent thirty-eight years in education, thirteen of them teaching secondary science and coaching, and twenty-five more in administration as an elementary and secondary principal, curriculum coordinator, and assistant superintendent of instruction and curriculum. He has served seven different Title I campuses and districts, four of them fully funded Title I, the schools where the work is hardest and the stakes are highest.
In every one of those roles the lesson held. Schools flourish when leaders and teachers reignite their heart for learning and put people first. Give teachers the right tools, the right data, and the right support, and passive learning turns into engaged learning, and the whole campus moves.
Educators don't need more theory or trendy initiatives with catchy names. They need research-based, proven, practical strategies they can use the very next class period.
That's the standard Doug holds in every training he delivers. He brings a fun, simple, focused environment, soft skills, and the smart use of tools, data, and digital platforms, so teachers leave working smarter, not harder. Every strategy has to work in a real classroom, with real students, starting the very next day.
His campuses have earned it out. The majority have been recognized at the highest levels, including National Blue Ribbon Schools, Texas Honor Roll Schools, and TEPSAN of the Year, and in 2019 Texas Woman's University named him an Advocate for Excellence in Literacy. The strategies travel. The results show up Monday morning.
Thirteen years in the secondary science classroom and on the field as a coach, at the junior high and high school level. The foundation: how to hold a room, build real relationships, and make hard content land.
Twenty-five years in administration across seven Title I campuses, as elementary and secondary principal and district literacy and curriculum coordinator. Turning schools around by reading their real strengths and weaknesses and teaching high-yield strategies.
Four years as assistant superintendent of instruction and curriculum, leading whole districts. His campuses earned National Blue Ribbon, Texas Honor Roll, and TEPSAN of the Year recognition along the way.
Bringing nearly four decades in the classroom and the front office to teachers and leaders across the country, helping them reignite the heart for learning and turn passive learning into engaged learning, one campus at a time.
Coach Rawlins is well known for his ability to turn a school around. He speaks across the nation on this topic. He is also a sought after motivational speaker.
"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.