Speaker Series

Inspiring student engagement and success

Request a Common Ground Speaker

If you are a WV public-school educator, you can submit a request for having a military service member visit your school or classroom as a guest speaker.

Resources for Guest Speakers

Speaker Series participants may review information about the following initiatives, which are being implemented in West Virginia schools to support students through universal prevention, targeted intervention, and intensive supports:


 

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

All 55 counties in West Virginia are fully active in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which provides books to children, ages birth to five.

WV Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

WV Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports helps schools provide equitable learning environments for all students. It works to decrease aggressive conduct and bullying, build relationships with students and staff, change academic outcomes and increase prosocial behaviors.

Expanded School Mental Health

Expanded School Mental Health is a multi-tiered system of support where schools, families, and strategic community partners work together to enhance student mental health in schools.

Communities in Schools

Communities In Schools works inside school systems with superintendents, principals, educators, and other personnel, to forge community partnerships that bring resources into schools and help remove barriers to student learning

WV Guideposts to Graduation

WV Guideposts to Graduation is a West Virginia initiative to ensure all students graduate from high school with a world-class education, who are college and career-ready, with an emphasis on students with disabilities.

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