Michele Borba
Michele Borba, EdD is an internationally renowned educator and award-winning author recognized for her practical, solution-based strategies to strengthen child’s behavior, self-esteem, character, and social development, and to build strong families. A sought-after motivational speaker, she has presented workshops and keynote addresses throughout North American, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific and has served as an educational consultant to hundreds of schools and corporations. Her proposal: “Ending School Violence” (SB1667) was signed into California law in 2002. She offers realistic, research-based advice culled from a career of working with over one million parents, educators and children.
Dr. Borba has appeared numerous times as a parent expert on The Today Show. She is a contributor to iVillage, as well as a guest expert on countless television and radio talk shows, discussing breaking news and the everyday challenges parents face. She has appeared on The View, Fox & Friends, Geraldo and Friends, American Morning, Countdown, MSNBC, The Early Show, Fox Headline News, and CNN Headline News. She has been interviewed by numerous publications, including Newsweek, US News & World Report, Reader’s Digest, Chicago Tribune, The Globe, The Los Angeles Times, People, Parenting, and Child. Her articles have appeared in Redbook, Parents, and Family Circle and she writes Parenting Secrets, a blog for NBC’s iVillage. Dr. Borba serves on advisory boards for Parents magazine, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the CHP National Character Education Partnership, and McDonald’s Global Mom’s Panel, and served as a spokesperson for Office Depot, T-Mobile, Gladerma, Johnson & Johnson, and RC2 Learning Curve West.
Dr. Borba is the author of several books, including 12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know: Getting Back to Basics and Raising Happy Kids; Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me!; No More Misbehavin’: 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them; Don’t Give Me that Attitude!; Building Moral Intelligence, cited by Publishers Weekly as being “among the most noteworthy of 2001;” Parents Do Make A Difference, selected by Child magazine as “Outstanding Parenting Book of 1999;” and Esteem Builders, used by 1.5 million students worldwide. Her latest book is The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries.
Dr. Borba’s numerous awards include the National Educator Award, presented by the National Council of Self-Esteem; Santa Clara University’s Outstanding Alumna Award; and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Educational Profession, presented by the Bureau of Education and Research. She was named the Honorary Chairperson for the Implementation of Self-Esteem in Hong Kong and served as a consultant for the Center Resource Group for Character Education and Civic Engagement for the US Department of Education.
Dr. Borba is a former classroom and college teacher and has had a wide range of teaching experience, including work in regular education as well as work with children with learning, physical, behavioral, and emotional disabilities. She was also a partner in a private practice for troubled youth. She received her doctorate in educational psychology and counseling from the University of San Francisco, her MA in learning disabilities, her BA from University of Santa Clara, and earned a life teaching credential from San Jose State University.
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You Are the Door Opener: You Hold the Keys to A Child's Potential
In an increasingly difficult time in the teaching profession, educators must hear again why they are so crucial in their students' lives. Dr. Borba explains why educators do have the power to turn around their students' lives and help them reach their greatest potential as learners. Using inspiring stories and real-life examples of teachers who are making a difference, she reminds educators that they are door-openers to a student's future. She names five critical factors that insure student success: security, selfhood, affiliation, mission and competence.
Moral Intelligence: Our Last, Best Hope
Our students are in trouble, and there are scores of disturbing indicators to prove it including the steady rise of depression, suicide, violence, peer cruelty, and substance abuse. In addition, we are seeing a growing rise in disrespect for authority, incivility and vulgarity, and cheating and dishonesty.
We've been relentless in our efforts to effect change, but in all our interventions, the one element we've largely overlooked is our students' moral intelligence--the growing capacity to decipher right from wrong, choose what's right then behave morally. This topic explores the latest research that confirms strong moral character can be learned and how teaching it can replace negative behaviors with positive ones.
You Do Make A Difference!
We all want the best for our children, but what are the traits that really matter in enhancing children's success? This topic teaches educators and parents eight traits that determine academic and personal success: Positive Self-Esteem, Communicating, Cultivating Strengths, Teamwork, Problem-Solving. Goal-Setting, Perseverance, and Caring. Dr. Borba shares inspiring stories, engaging real-life examples, and instant tips to cultivate these traits that matter most in our children's lives.
Self-Esteem: The Same in Any Language
Basic principles of esteem building transcend race, culture, and gender. This exciting keynote speech emphasizes five critical building blocks of self-esteem that dramatically impact children's achievement, behavior, and motivation. Self-esteem is learned, changeable and can be nurtured in our troubled youth. Dr. Borba shares motivational stories of those who have made a significant impact, and real-life examples of practical yet powerful ways they touched lives. This presentation has been given in cities all over the world and yet the message is still the same: children have the same needs everywhere.
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