Partner With Greatness
Youth Development Platform
Serving Mentors and Educators
Raising Up Young Champions
Staff Trainings Offered:
-Success for 2nd Year Teachers
-Parent Communication Mastery
-Empathy for Educators: group culture
-Building Community Partnerships
Student Messages Offered:
-Powerless to Powerful
Student Programs Offered:
-Careers of Future Champs
What People Are Saying About Harding
Written audience comments from Harding's breakout session at the 2019 annual KECSAC conference for alternative school educators, which was heavily attended by principals, department of education employees, social workers, teachers, classified staff, and more:
"One of the best KECSAC sessions I have attended."
"Lots of great ideas/strategies!"
"Great strategies and audience participation. Passion behind practice."
"Great job!! Have him back!!"
"Nice job and very professional."
"Awesome presentation. Entertaining and informative."
"Excellent information. You were very inspiring to anyone or school thinking of these strategies."
"This dude was real. I love that he is actually a teacher!"
Why Harding is Different
Truancy problems? Staff culture not optimal yet? Trouble balancing academic and social emotional services? Harding wants to share with you how to better connect with families, improve staff and student communication, and motivate students in a fresh, new way. Let's go!
Alternative schools are intense. Can we agree on that? Regardless of what you know or what you've heard about them, that's a basic statement we can work with. Instructors face enormous challenges, and have no choice but to be shaped into the special forces of teaching! Alternative students don't act like you expect them to, and while you're feeling the pressure of hitting all the academic targets you've been tasked with, you quickly realize that these insanely talented, tough, sensitive, and promising youth have perhaps a greater need for teamwork skills, anger management, assertiveness, wellness, vision, and feelings of purpose. Therefore, in order to be effective there, THOSE are the EXACT qualities YOU must master and live out on a daily basis! And, who better to throw you into the fire and train you than the very students "the system" has underestimated, labeled, frustrated, and cast aside?
In this environment, a young Harding Ison-Bowman spent the first 10 years of his professional life learning and unlearning, relentlessly staying in the fire and seeking feedback until he figured out how to love and serve the students who challenged him, and lead on a high-functioning staff team. Harding isn't special. He's just authentic, and has compressed a ton of intense training and mistakes into 10 unforgettable years. Through clear principles and stories, Harding can now help teachers and principals bring out the true greatness in themselves and the students they serve.
Get excited! Whether it's a staff or a student issue, Harding provides practical solutions he has used in the field, himself, and will help you implement them in a way that drives lasting change.
~If you're a mentor or educator, I can refresh you in your awesome work, and train you from real experience.
Need an engaging speaker to develop your students? Harding uses stories and principles designed to help students heal up from social and emotional damage, identify coping strategies and life skills they can take control of, and believe in their own ability to live a powerful life of meaning and contribution.
~If you're a young person, I can empower you with a stronger story of who you are and where you're headed.
Alternative schools are intense. Can we agree on that? Regardless of what you know or what you've heard about them, that's a basic statement we can work with. Instructors face enormous challenges, and have no choice but to be shaped into the special forces of teaching! Alternative students don't act like you expect them to, and while you're feeling the pressure of hitting all the academic targets you've been tasked with, you quickly realize that these insanely talented, tough, sensitive, and promising youth have perhaps a greater need for teamwork skills, anger management, assertiveness, wellness, vision, and feelings of purpose. Therefore, in order to be effective there, THOSE are the EXACT qualities YOU must master and live out on a daily basis! And, who better to throw you into the fire and train you than the very students "the system" has underestimated, labeled, frustrated, and cast aside?
In this environment, a young Harding Ison-Bowman spent the first 10 years of his professional life learning and unlearning, relentlessly staying in the fire and seeking feedback until he figured out how to love and serve the students who challenged him, and lead on a high-functioning staff team. Harding isn't special. He's just authentic, and has compressed a ton of intense training and mistakes into 10 unforgettable years. Through clear principles and stories, Harding can now help teachers and principals bring out the true greatness in themselves and the students they serve.
Get excited! Whether it's a staff or a student issue, Harding provides practical solutions he has used in the field, himself, and will help you implement them in a way that drives lasting change.
~If you're a mentor or educator, I can refresh you in your awesome work, and train you from real experience.
Need an engaging speaker to develop your students? Harding uses stories and principles designed to help students heal up from social and emotional damage, identify coping strategies and life skills they can take control of, and believe in their own ability to live a powerful life of meaning and contribution.
~If you're a young person, I can empower you with a stronger story of who you are and where you're headed.
Podcast Series: The Daddio Show
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This warm and funny interview style podcast series celebrates local fathers and their important role as fathers. We dig into the vital questions of our age: Why are we in a fatherhood crisis, and what can we do about it?
"Welcome back, welcome back, to another fresh episode of the Daddio Shoooowwww!" Fresh episodes every week. |
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Harding Ison-Bowman, Founder ~Youth Mentor~Speaker and Educator About Harding: Harding Ison-Bowman holds a Master’s in English Education and has a decade of experience working with at-risk youth, teaching communication and leadership skills, as well as vocational pathways through career studies and his beloved side hustle, landscaping. His favorite youth development activity is connecting young people with adults in the workforce and helping them see exciting examples of what their own lives could look like. Harding enjoys hiking with his wife Mattie and two dogs, gardening, and playing the drums, and knocking out landscaping jobs on the weekends. The Ison-Bowmans are expecting their first child in June of 2020. |
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