Creating a Conversation to Bring Students Together
Diversity Matters involves students in a discussion to celebrate the similarities of our differences. Key points include:
Experience Your Free Interactive Cultural Category Sampler Video
Bringing Your Students a World of Experience
Take Diversity Matters for a test drive with your 30 Minute Video Course featuring one question from each of the most requested cultural categories!
Why Speak to Students About Diversity?
Relevant
Students today are more diverse than ever before. Our world is increasingly interconnected.
Necessary
"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival." Renee Dubos
Unifying
Developing appreciation for difference, diversity and inclusion for all is an ongoing process
Not Your Typical Diversity Presentation
Interactive by design. Interactive from the beginning.
A NORMAL Presentation:
Dozens of identically-themed PowerPoint slides stacked with text, long sections of talking at students, followed by tense, miserable minutes of silence during the time allotted for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
Normal rarely engages students.
Truly Interactive Diversity Matters utilizes a Q&A format to engage and involve your students throughout the entire presentation. Multiple categories with questions and answers to invite participation and focus discussion break the presentation into short, interactive, relevant, educational and entertaining sections.
Interactive to Enhance Student Understanding and Application.
Watch Byron & Diversity Matters in Action
Not a typical presentation on Diversity:
What Makes Diversity Matters Different?
Diversity Matters involves students by design! Presentations facilitate student participation using a question and answer format. Stories and entertaining examples celebrate the similarities of our differences.
Bringing a World of Experience Your Students Will Trust
Byron started speaking to students about culture and diversity when he first started Speak to Students in 1998. Over the years, Byron has given thousands of presentations to large and small groups of students in hundreds of rural, urban, and suburban schools in seven states. His presentations on Diversity and Respect have been used by hundreds of presenters in 26 states and in 70+ colleges and universities in the US and abroad.
A Presenters Unique Perspective on Culture
Byron delivers a unique perspective on culture developed as an exchange student in Wales, traveling around Europe, teaching in Japan, and traveling around Asia. Combnined with decades working with youth and families from diverse backgrounds and in a wide range of situations in the U.S.A., Byron brings a wide range of experieince into EVERY presentation.
Involve Your Students
Research has demonstrated that engaging students in their learning process increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice higher-level critical thinking skills, and promotes meaningful learning experiences. Byron uses a question and answer format to engage students abd begin a convesation that lasts beyond the presentation.
Creating Connection
Actively engage students in a conversation about diversity. Focus on shared experiences. Reinforce how our similarities are greater than our differences. Bring credibility by connecting classroom experiences with the world beyond.
How Diversity Matters Works
Just like not all students are the same, NOT ALL SCHOOLS ARE THE SAME EITHER.
Speak to Students is Flexible for the complexities of Student, School, Teacher, Schedule, and Budget needs of everyone.
Speak to Students works with you to meet your needs and the needs of your community.
4 Levels of Opportunity
to bring Speak to Students to Speak with Your Students on Diversity and Inclusion
Always Free!
Take Diversity Matters for a test drive with your 30 Minute Video presentation featuring an interactive discussion with students using one question from each of the 10 most requested cultural categories!
Student Resorces included!
Bonus Promoting Peace Audio Course included!!
The BIG 3
Get the Three Most Requested Topics at one LOW PRICE
Take your pick from any of the Diversity Matters Cultural Categories. Each Cultural Category is on a specific cultural topic and includes between 5-10 questions and is between 5-15 minutes in length. Downloadable handouts and resources are included.
Complete Diversity Matters Online
The same Interactive Content for a FRACTION of the cost!
Encourage student discussions as you watch ANY & ALL the Diversity Matters Cultural Categories at your convenience. Receive ANY & ALL Diversity Matters updates. Connect with a community of like minded teachers and students who want to thrive in our increasingly diverse and interconnected world.
Bring the World of Experience to Your Students
Byron is a speaker your students are not likely to forget. He has been able to GET, KEEP, & DIRECT the ATTENTION of student audiences on three continents. His interactive, educational, and entertaining persentations are relevant for students learning in person, hybrid, and remote in 2021.
Whatever the experience your students have with people from diverse backgrounds, bringing Diversity Matters to your school will help you create a conversation about, tolerance, inclusion, and acceptance.
BONUS: When you Schedule Diversity Matters LIVE you also get access to Diversity Matters on Video for the remainder of the school year!
What Teachers Say About Diversity Matters
"I was so impressed with the first hour that I completely altered my schedule for other courses I teach to get them into the next sessions"
I am writing this letter with spirited enthusiasm in regards to Byron Wolt and his presentations on diversity, culture, and world understanding. Byron recently gave four hours’ worth of exhibitions at my High School. I was so impressed with the first hour that I completely altered my schedule for other courses I teach to get them into the next sessions.
John Holmes // Social Studies teacher
"His presentation served well as a launching point to discuss matters of Diversity in a different context"
His presentation gave insight as a fun way to reinforce to students the importance of being able to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds in the USA and around the world. His material was useful to people of any age. His presentation style was interactive, engaging, and thorough. He was friendly, focused, humorous, knowledgeable, and relaxed. He inspired and motivated students, and his presentation served well as a launching point to discuss matters of Diversity in a different context
Megan LaChapelle // English Teacher
"My students and I were able to have a REAL conversation about cultural differences, prejudices, and how we can do a better job of accepting people"
The experience my students and I had was eye opening, intriguing, and filled with learning opportunities that were transferred back into our daily lives. The day after the presentation, my students and I were able to have a REAL conversation about cultural differences, prejudices, and how we can do a better job of accepting people that may seem different from us. My students were able to explain what Byron talked about in their own words and relate it back to how they can change their attitudes to become more accepting people.
Ashley Boutelle // World Language teacher
Byron Wolt // Youth Outreach Specialist
I started Speak to Students because I love to talk to kids. I love to watch a student’s expression change when I say something that has meaning for them. I am fortunate to have learned so much by living and travelling abroad and working with people from such diverse backgrounds. I want to students to know that NO MATTER WHAT OUR DIFFERENCES, WE ALL HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON.
I've spoken to students in hundreds of schools and worked with thousands of kids in a wide range of settings in the US and abroad. I'd LOVE to speak to your students too.
The Best Time Get Your Students Talking About Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Respect is RIGHT NOW!
Whether you get your free online Cultural Categories Sampler Video, or the whole Diversity Matters Online Course, or have Byron speak to your students LIVE, there is never a better time to create a conversation with your students about the issue that matter most to your students today!
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