Replacing Pages With People

The book will describe how educators can motivate and engage students in the classroom.

4/13: 9:45 am-10:15 am

I spent 20 days in isolation battling Covid-19. I came as close to being ventilated as you can, but was able to survive without ventilation! Out of an abundance of disrespect for Covid-19 I started referring to it as the BEAR. This gave it a face, an identity and Gave me the power to know what I was facing! It also helped me to do daily FB live posts & blogs to show people EXACTLY what a very sick patient goes through when battling the BEAR! I’m still living with scars and long term health issues that the Bear took from me, but after 20 days after walking into the hospital a very sick man, I walked out having bested the BEAR!

April 13: 9:45 am-10:15 am,10:25 am-10:55 am

April 30: 9:10 am-10:00 am, 10:10 am-11:00 am

Robert Dukelow worked for 33 years as a multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, mostly in Europe, but also in Afghanistan, and the Pentagon. For 11 years he supervised the Army’s intelligence liaison system in NATO. He planned for the successful expansion of that system into Turkey and the new NATO nations after the collapse of the East Bloc. He worked from 1997 to 2002 at Fort Meade, MD. He provided the key information that led to the identification, arrest, and conviction of Ana Montes a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency who spied for the Cubans for 17 years. He served as a special advisor to the command group of the first NATO International Security Assistance Force in Kabul in 2003-2004. In 2005. responding to a specific request by the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, he used his experience to develop a sure plan to defeat radical Islamic terrorist through a cultural shift. This revolutionary plan was uniformly praised by mid-level officers in the Pentagon. The Army’s senior leadership rejected the plan, because educating and empowering Afghan girls and women was “not the way the Army fights wars.” They were right, proving the null hypothesis. He now lives in Gilbert, Arizona where he writes books, gardens, hikes in the mountains, and teaches at the Mesa Community College. He is called a Renaissance Man.

April 13: 9:45 am-10:15 am

April 30: 9:10 am-10:00 am

Margot, the oldest daughter in a non-Jewish family that lost everything in WWII, chronicles her war experiences and their lasting impact on her life.

April 30: Chapter 1 (11:10-12:00)

Recovering people-pleaser turned love rebel. Turning a whole love revolution inward and a self-love reflection and journey.

April 13: 11:45 am-12:15 am

April 30: 11:10 am-12:00 pm

Adopting a little girl who just needed to be loved. Her story of finding herself and understanding her special needs.

April 30: 9:10 am-10:00 am

Black Male, HIV and was in the closet over 32 years while I coached wrestling. Many of my ex wrestlers and wrestlerettes have been successful in life despite coming from an inter-city environment.

April 30: 9:10 am-10:00 am, 10:10 am-11:00 am, 11:10 am-12:00 pm

Connecting with each other one uncomfortable conversation at a time.

April 13: 11:45 am-12:15 pm

April 30: 11:10 am-12:00 pm

Health Care vs Sick Care to learning that all we need to heal and remain healthy is within reach.

April 30: 11:10 am-12:00 pm

Discrimination experienced as a person with a cognitive disability- hard to get and hold down job, can't make $$ without loss of government support.

April 30: 10:10 am-11:00 am

Great life, drug abuse, incarceration, rising up

April 30: 9:10 am-1:00 am, 10:10 am-11:00 am, 11:10 am-12:00 pm

The memoirs of a young autistic almost nonverbal Wiggles fan who meets his heroes and who continues to see them whenever he can and their friendship and how it gave him the confidence to do many things.

April 13: 11:45 am-12:15 pm

April 30: 11:10 am-12:00 pm

April 17, 2005 was a bad day on Route Irish in Baghdad, Iraq when a 6-man squad of the 1/41 Infantry Regiment Quick Reaction Force (QRF) platoon encountered a remotely detonated improvised explosive device (IED) during a regular patrol.

Author Daniel Piotrowski's military service by the numbers: Over 22 years in the United States Army, Piotrowski served in multiple units (2/325 AIR, 5/19th SFG, 1/41 INF, 2/9 INF, 2/6 INF, 2/4 INF); jumped 188 times out of perfectly good aircraft over 12 Airborne years; experienced 26 roadside IEDs; survived one dismounted IED blast that blew him off his feet, and one vehicle borne IED that blew him out of his barracks bed; traveled to 23 foreign countries; quartered on 17 U.S. military bases; lived through multi-day attacks at four combat outposts; earned two Purple Heart medals over four combat deployments (OIF - 2, OEF - 2); plus, completed one Humanitarian Mission with the 82nd Airborne Division following Hurricane Andrew (1992). Transitioning to civilian life has not been easy for Piotrowski with his invisible brain injuries. He speaks slower and sometimes struggle to keep pace in conversations. Piotrowski knows his friends understand, but strangers and employers often don’t get him. Humor helps Piotrowski, so he chuckles while telling people he has been blown up a couple times. Sharing his colorful stories with others helps Piotrowski in his recovery journey.

April 13: 9:45am - 10:15am, 10:25am - 10:55am, 11:05am - 11:35am, 11:45pm - 12:15pm

Living with the pitfalls of a gender gone wrong, ego, addiction, crippling depression, suicidal thoughts, anger, hopelessness, dishonesty, fear, hatred, and a crushing will to live life to the fullest.

I managed to start my life over at 35 by then I was just a shell of the person I wanted to be. I was at the end and I didn't even care anymore so in an attempt to give it one more shot and try to fix the mess of a life I was living I peeled off in the opposite direction from the things that plagued me. I let go of all the people and most of the thoughts and feelings that were holding me in a death grip. I quit drugs and alcohol, I quit looking for trouble, I quit doing things that made me unfulfilled. Over the next few years I worked feverishly to change all the problems I had been dealing with my whole life.

The only reason I share my story is the hope that it may help someone in some way and if that's possible then what i went through is all worth it. I Was built strong and resilient try as they may my demons didn't beat me in the end. I was never known to go down without a fight but what do you do when the person you are fighting is.......you?

If you are struggling with something keep fighting even when there is no fight left in you.

Life can change in ways you never imagined so hang on to hope like your life depends on it ..........because it does!

April 13: 9:45am - 10:15am, 11:05am - 11:35am

April 30: 9:10am - 10:00am, 11:10am-12:00pm

At the age of 40, Amanda discovered what was to be her life purpose and soul-cenetered work after an experience of sexual assault. She details what she learned in the weeks and months after the assault and how that ultimately led to the work she does today - helping survivors of sexual assault and trafficking - who want to use their voice as an instrument of change.

Through creating safe, nonjudgmental spaces, women come together in community to discover their voice, develop a message of triumph over their adverse experiences and find empowerment and confidence as they use that message to bring about greater understanding and compassion to others listening to their talks.

Looking back, Amanda feels gratitude for the trauma she endured as it was that experience that led her to where she is today - creating meaningful impact in silenced and oppressed communities around us. She strings together the moments in a way that shows, in this story, everything happens for a reason. This is a story of hope.

Amanda now works as the Executive Director for Amplify Voices, a local nonprofit that works with individuals from oppressed, misunderstood or silenced communities that want to use their voice as an instrument of change.

April 13: 9:45am - 10:15am, 10:25am - 10:55am, 11:05am - 11:35am, 11:45am - 12:15pm