Speaker: Dr. Joe Martin

Session Overview:
Teacher retention is an important topic in education today. How can districts continue to grow and retain their best and brightest teachers. Dr. Joe Martin will share research based strategies to identify traps that impact retention as well as ways leaders can avoid these traps to increase teacher engagement and self-efficacy. Dr. Martin had the distinction of becoming the youngest tenured-earning faculty member ever hired to teach at a state university in Florida at the age of 24. He also had the distinct honor of being the youngest professor at his institution to be nominated twice for the “Distinguished Teacher’s Award.” In addition, he has taught students at all levels in K-12, including Title I, alternative ed, and gifted students. As an educational speaker and consultant, he has trained more than 260,000 teachers and administrators during the course of his career.

Dr. Martin has addressed more than 750 organizations, associations, businesses, colleges and

universities, churches, and school districts, helping hundreds of thousands of students and staff members across the country achieve more, live and serve more passionately, and maximize their leadership potential. The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities selected him as their national “College Speaker of the Year,” and he has also been nominated for the “Lecturer of the Year” by Campus Activities Magazine. Outside of education, he has worked as a top sales trainer for a Fortune 500 company and as a public relations professional for both the state and federal government, including a position as Communications Director with the Florida Governor’s Office.