Welcome to Rally for Reform: Solutions for Education and Bullying
This event is running August 21st and 22nd.
There is a crisis in American education. It goes far deeper than funding and politics.
Our economy is changing. Our culture is changing. Our world is changing.
Our educational system in too many places is failing to keep up and adapt, leaving the next generation ill prepared for the challenges of the future.
Worse, while receiving antiquated education, too many of our kids face bullying from other kids and sometimes even teachers and authority figured.
Our kids deserve better.
They deserve to be equipped with the tools they will need to thrive.
They deserve to feel safe and supported.
They deserve a 21st century education.
The purpose of this event is to bring together experts, authorities, thought leaders, innovators, and others with new ideas and new solutions for the challenges that face this new generation.
We will learn from one another.
We will network and collaborate.
We will take a first step to discover new solutions and bring them to the world where they can serve our kids.
An Interactive Event
This event is not just a place for speakers to pontificate to the masses. This is a collaborative event. Speakers are leading the conversation, but everyone is here to participate, collaborate, learn, teach, and, after the event, implement.
The goal is to change the world, not just talk about it.
Speaker Expectations
- Bring at least 10 registrations, which could be promoting to your audience, personal invitations, or any other manner. We are bringing communities together
- Attend for at least 4 hours in addition to your speaking time
- Actively engage with other speakers and participants throughout the event
Your Speaker Experience
This event is produced by Michael Whitehouse, and Michael creates events that a fun, engaging, exciting, and valuable to the audience and the speakers. This is not a watch with your camera off while you do something else event. This is not a drop in, give your talk, and leave event. This is an interactive event!
We want to create an event that you will enjoy speaking at and get value from. More interaction is always better than less interaction. That keeps the energy up in the room, keeps the audience engaged, and makes it more fun for you.
15 minutes is not a lot of time to go deep, so you are welcome to invite the audience to a follow up event where you can do much more into depth on your topic. It is required that your talk during our event provide valuable, actionable information. It is recommended that your follow up event do the same as well, and not simply be a pitch to sell something without offering more value during that event.
Live and Pre-recorded Speakers
During each day of the event, we will have 8-10 live speakers, each speaking 15 minutes each. We will also have as many as 5 pre-recorded speakers.
Pre-recorded speakers will provide us a 10 minute video of their talk. This video will be sent out to everyone registered for the event in the run up to the event. You are then welcome and encouraged you attend the event live to interact with those who watched your talk in our breakouts, Q&A, hotseat and other engagement sessions.
If you would like to participate but are unable to attend live, you are welcome to apply and note on the application that you would like to be a pre-recorded speaker.
Important: pre-recorded talks are not sent out until and unless you have achieved the promotion requirement.
Pre-Event Speaker Meet-Up
In our experience, one of the greatest forms of value our speakers get is the connection with other speakers. They have found clients, vendors, mentors, partners, and friends among their fellow speakers.
To facilitate this, we will be hosting a 90 minute, pre-event speaker meetup on Thursday, August 10th, 2023 at 3 PM.
This is not required, but is highly recommended because it will give you the opportunity to connect with other speakers prior to the event.
Event Style
The event will be a live, Zoom-based event running 11 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time.
We're aiming for engagement. We want an event where people feel they are part of something, not where they feel like they are watching a YouTube video.
Between to presentations, we will have various forms of engagement, including breakouts, roundtables, hotseats, and more.
It also means that we encourage speakers to be there for as much of the event as possible because you'll be making some connections while you're there. (Live speakers are required to attend for at least 4 hours of the event)
Schedule Structure
Speaking slots will be 15 minutes, and should be intended to stoke discussion, but not necessarily just being controversial for the sake of stirring the pot. We want solutions, not just debate.
Each hour will be formatted as follows:
0-15 Speaker
15-30 Interaction
30-45 Speaker
45-60 Interaction
Interaction may be breakouts, hot seat coaching, Q&As, or anything else.
Do not assume that the interaction block after your talk is for your Q&A, but if you do get a good flow going with the audience and they are highly engaged, I may choose to just let that keep going if the vibe is good.
Recordings
All presentations will be recorded.
Any speakers who achieve the minimum number of opt-ins (which should be all of you, right?) will have their presentation shared out to the entire list of registrants in the days after the event.
Additionally, some videos may be shared out to attendees or others on my list for various reasons including promoting that speaker's affiliate link or program.
By applying to this summit, you are granting ConCardia, LLC and Michael Whitehouse full and irrevocable rights to all recordings made during the event. Event partners may also share and use the recordings at the discretion of ConCardia, LLC. These recordings may be edited and deployed in any way that we choose for the benefit of our audiences.
Promotion
Speakers are expected to generate a minimum of 10 opt-ins. Swipe copy will be provided, or you can write your own copy. If you write really good copy, I'll share it with the other speakers and credit you.
In addition to traditional swipe copy, Guest Letters will be provided which you can share verbatim as a letter from the organizers to your audience.
If you bring in at least 25 opt ins, event producer Michael Whitehouse will promote your affiliate offer to his entire list including all summit registrants. (After the event, a final leaderboard will be shared. It is up to you to send content to share to Michael. You must take advantage of this within 60 days of the conclusion of the event.)
This event is running August 21st and 22nd.
There is a crisis in American education. It goes far deeper than funding and politics.
Our economy is changing. Our culture is changing. Our world is changing.
Our educational system in too many places is failing to keep up and adapt, leaving the next generation ill prepared for the challenges of the future.
Worse, while receiving antiquated education, too many of our kids face bullying from other kids and sometimes even teachers and authority figured.
Our kids deserve better.
They deserve to be equipped with the tools they will need to thrive.
They deserve to feel safe and supported.
They deserve a 21st century education.
The purpose of this event is to bring together experts, authorities, thought leaders, innovators, and others with new ideas and new solutions for the challenges that face this new generation.
We will learn from one another.
We will network and collaborate.
We will take a first step to discover new solutions and bring them to the world where they can serve our kids.
An Interactive Event
This event is not just a place for speakers to pontificate to the masses. This is a collaborative event. Speakers are leading the conversation, but everyone is here to participate, collaborate, learn, teach, and, after the event, implement.
The goal is to change the world, not just talk about it.
Speaker Expectations
- Bring at least 10 registrations, which could be promoting to your audience, personal invitations, or any other manner. We are bringing communities together
- Attend for at least 4 hours in addition to your speaking time
- Actively engage with other speakers and participants throughout the event
Your Speaker Experience
This event is produced by Michael Whitehouse, and Michael creates events that a fun, engaging, exciting, and valuable to the audience and the speakers. This is not a watch with your camera off while you do something else event. This is not a drop in, give your talk, and leave event. This is an interactive event!
We want to create an event that you will enjoy speaking at and get value from. More interaction is always better than less interaction. That keeps the energy up in the room, keeps the audience engaged, and makes it more fun for you.
15 minutes is not a lot of time to go deep, so you are welcome to invite the audience to a follow up event where you can do much more into depth on your topic. It is required that your talk during our event provide valuable, actionable information. It is recommended that your follow up event do the same as well, and not simply be a pitch to sell something without offering more value during that event.
Live and Pre-recorded Speakers
During each day of the event, we will have 8-10 live speakers, each speaking 15 minutes each. We will also have as many as 5 pre-recorded speakers.
Pre-recorded speakers will provide us a 10 minute video of their talk. This video will be sent out to everyone registered for the event in the run up to the event. You are then welcome and encouraged you attend the event live to interact with those who watched your talk in our breakouts, Q&A, hotseat and other engagement sessions.
If you would like to participate but are unable to attend live, you are welcome to apply and note on the application that you would like to be a pre-recorded speaker.
Important: pre-recorded talks are not sent out until and unless you have achieved the promotion requirement.
Pre-Event Speaker Meet-Up
In our experience, one of the greatest forms of value our speakers get is the connection with other speakers. They have found clients, vendors, mentors, partners, and friends among their fellow speakers.
To facilitate this, we will be hosting a 90 minute, pre-event speaker meetup on Thursday, August 10th, 2023 at 3 PM.
This is not required, but is highly recommended because it will give you the opportunity to connect with other speakers prior to the event.
Event Style
The event will be a live, Zoom-based event running 11 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time.
We're aiming for engagement. We want an event where people feel they are part of something, not where they feel like they are watching a YouTube video.
Between to presentations, we will have various forms of engagement, including breakouts, roundtables, hotseats, and more.
It also means that we encourage speakers to be there for as much of the event as possible because you'll be making some connections while you're there. (Live speakers are required to attend for at least 4 hours of the event)
Schedule Structure
Speaking slots will be 15 minutes, and should be intended to stoke discussion, but not necessarily just being controversial for the sake of stirring the pot. We want solutions, not just debate.
Each hour will be formatted as follows:
0-15 Speaker
15-30 Interaction
30-45 Speaker
45-60 Interaction
Interaction may be breakouts, hot seat coaching, Q&As, or anything else.
Do not assume that the interaction block after your talk is for your Q&A, but if you do get a good flow going with the audience and they are highly engaged, I may choose to just let that keep going if the vibe is good.
Recordings
All presentations will be recorded.
Any speakers who achieve the minimum number of opt-ins (which should be all of you, right?) will have their presentation shared out to the entire list of registrants in the days after the event.
Additionally, some videos may be shared out to attendees or others on my list for various reasons including promoting that speaker's affiliate link or program.
By applying to this summit, you are granting ConCardia, LLC and Michael Whitehouse full and irrevocable rights to all recordings made during the event. Event partners may also share and use the recordings at the discretion of ConCardia, LLC. These recordings may be edited and deployed in any way that we choose for the benefit of our audiences.
Promotion
Speakers are expected to generate a minimum of 10 opt-ins. Swipe copy will be provided, or you can write your own copy. If you write really good copy, I'll share it with the other speakers and credit you.
In addition to traditional swipe copy, Guest Letters will be provided which you can share verbatim as a letter from the organizers to your audience.
If you bring in at least 25 opt ins, event producer Michael Whitehouse will promote your affiliate offer to his entire list including all summit registrants. (After the event, a final leaderboard will be shared. It is up to you to send content to share to Michael. You must take advantage of this within 60 days of the conclusion of the event.)