Speaking
Inspire new thinking.
Signature keynotes designed to spark attention, create urgency, and give audiences a memorable framework for thinking differently about literacy, engagement, and learning.
Keynotes
Ideas worth exploring. Stories worth sharing.
Word Magic: Power and Purpose
An engaging talk about vocabulary as a force inside literacy. This keynote explores how words shape understanding, opportunity, power, and participation across every subject area.
- Builds awareness around vocabulary loss and language access
- Connects literacy to contracts, classrooms, relationships, and real life
- Designed for educators across all subject areas
Fear of the Alternative: Redesigning the Box
A keynote about why people often fear what is different in teaching and learning — and how creative constraints can help educators redesign the experience without abandoning the goal.
- Challenges traditional assumptions about engagement
- Frames creativity as a practical classroom tool
- Introduces the Redesigning the Box mindset
Outcome
A memorable idea people can repeat.
The goal is for people to leave with a useful lens, a shared vocabulary, and a renewed sense of what engagement, language, and learning can look like.
Meet Alan Davson
The educator behind the framework.
Alan Davson is an educator, speaker, student engagement specialist, and creator of SAYWORD!.
With more than 20 years of experience across traditional classrooms, alternative education, juvenile justice settings, gifted education, ESL instruction, music technology, and social-emotional learning, Alan helps educators design learning experiences that students can actually enter into.
His work connects vocabulary, creativity, participation, and engagement design through practical tools, memorable stories, and real classroom experience.
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