Dear fellow educators and youth workers,
What if the quietest, most ordinary student you work with is actually called to the highest levels of leadership?
What if your student with the “gift of gab” could harness their communication skills for extraordinary influence?
How will you provide practice and experience for him or her, training to lead and influence other students – and adults?
The Institute for Cultural Communicators empowers you to help students get ready to speak.
A little bit about me…
As I’ve worked to support, equip, and encourage educators and youth workers for nearly three decades, I:
- established a private school in the early 90’s for families in California emphasizing family-directed education as an alternative to traditional approaches
- designed and began touring conferences in 1998 to train students to exercise and refine communication skills to make an impact on today’s culture
- addressed educational convention audiences throughout the United States and across the globe
For nearly 30 years, I’ve been passionate about empowering a global community in a growing, international organization. While educating my own sons and equipping those working with youth, I designed curriculum and training programs to deliver ongoing resources and coaching to families in their own communities — and it has been a privilege to share these in over 25 countries.
The organization I founded, the Institute for Cultural Communicators, continues to distribute communication and leadership curriculum and host leadership mentoring communities around the globe. As a mother, grandmother, and educator, I am more devoted than ever to empowering the next generation to become people of influence in our culture – not someday, but TOday.
The stakes are high. We must empower the next generation well. And someone must empower teachers, youth leaders, and administrators to do just that. I applaud the very important work you are doing and would count it a privilege to share what I have learned over the past 40 years with you.
Toward Transformation,
Teresa
Dr. Teresa M. Moon
President | CEO
Institute for Cultural Communicators
Workshops for Learning Centre Faculty and Administrators
Workshops for Learning Centre faculty and administrators will draw from topics similar to those described below.
From Ordinary Student to Extraordinary Leader
What if the quietest, most ordinary student in your classroom is actually called to highest levels of leadership? How will you provide him or her practice and experience leading and influencing other students – and adults? We know from the story of David – the student you least suspect may be called to be a mighty leader. Discover ordinary steps toward extraordinary leadership. And learn seamless and easy coaching tips for busy teachers.
Public Speaking: the Most Feared Activity
(based on Dr. Teresa M. Moon’s award-winning curriculum Beginning Public Speaking)
Research tells us people are more afraid of speaking in public than of dying — when at a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. The real influencers for Christ’s kingdom are those who can articulate their ideas winsomely and well. Our students have important ideas to share and significant contributions to make. This workshop shares super-simple, user-friendly, no-experience-needed, easy-to-follow tools every teacher can use to coach communicators for Christ!
Communication Education: the First Step in Growing EXTRAordinary Leaders
Communication is not a one-and-done academic subject; it needs to be integrated across the curriculum. Communication is the glue that binds all areas of study together. Communication education draws out the purpose and the value of each academic discipline. Students who master communication skills are proven to excel in every other course of study. Discover simple steps for integrating communication education across the curriculum and growing extraordinary leaders in the process.
Mentoring for Maturity
Imparting knowledge is simple: Study the material– Take the test. But does it produce the maturity you desire? Are you satisfied to educate your children merely to test well? Most of us want more than that. Well-selected mentors are the key. Mentoring grows maturity from the schoolroom to the boardroom. You CAN find the mentors your child needs. If raising a mature Christian means more to you for than transcripts and test scores, let’s talk.
Confronting the Tech-Touch Challenge
We live in an increasingly high-tech world, yet we need high-touch experiences to live and grow as humans. The pull of technology is unavoidable and frightening. The best tools for education and evangelism hold great potential — for learning but also for losing reality. It is possible to bring these worlds together; and dangerous when we don’t. Our students’ future depends in large part on their capacity for integrating these worlds well.
Partnering with Parents
What is the role of the parent in a student’s success? How do we as educators develop powerful partnerships our students’ parents? The research is compelling:. the most successful students have the most invested parents. What would it mean for your Learning Centre to have parents partner in your mission? It’s possible! Let’s explore together tools for engaging parents as your greatest allies.
Coaching with Success
You may not think of yourself as a public speaker, but, every day in class, you are coaching your students to communicate. Whether they have the gift of gab or appear painfully shy, our students must learn to communicate their ideas — and their faith. YOU are, next to their parents, the best coach they have! Discover the complete guide to coaching and achieving success and explore tools for successfully coaching your young communicators.
Evaluating for Excellence
(Based on Dr. Teresa M. Moon’s popular EDUCATION guide, Evaluating for Excellence)
How do you know they know what they know? You ALWAYS need to know exactly what your students know. Discover simple resources to guide your students from where they ARE in any subject, to where you want them to BE. Practical tools tested on thousands of students over 35 years help you diagnose, project, guide, and evaluate every aspect of your student’s education from Bible to biology as they grow in competence and character.
More Options
I routinely design workshops and seminars based on the needs of the organizations and audiences. If you have a need for something you don’t see here, but think it would benefit your faculty members, just ask. My research interests and educational expertise include the following topic areas.
Christian education – what makes an education distinctly Christian; how to integrate faith and education for real-world preparation
leadership – coaching leaders, followership, team dynamics, being a good team member
global education – tomorrow’s leaders, as well as today’s, lead in a global society. Our children will serve on intercultural teams and will need cultural awareness to succeed in the marketplace and in ministry.
communication education – public speaking, online communication, interpersonal communication, group communication
emotional intelligence – coaching our students in self-awareness to lead themselves and others well
storytelling – the most essential skill we teach and why the workplace and the church are desperately seeking it out
intergenerational issues – understanding generational trends and how they impact the way we educate, work, and worship today
mentoring – the significance of mentoring relationships in our lives and in our children’s lives and how we can guide them
ICC's unique approach to communication education is summarized in the below video:
Testimonies
Need some help getting your own student ready for the real world?
4:12 - students are getting ready to speak
Speaking Reel & Recordings
Speaking Reel - Teresa Moon
A Royal Education - Teresa Moon
June 29, 2018 (28 min, international audience of Christian educators, parents, and students, Nashville, TN)
What’s in Your Hand? - Teresa Moon
June 25, 2015 (24 min, national audience of educators, parents, and students, Virginia Beach, VA)
Biography
Dr. Teresa Moon, President and CEO of the Institute for Cultural Communicators, has supported, equipped, and encouraged parents and educators for nearly three decades. In the early 90’s, she established a private school for Christian families in CA which continues today. In 1998, she founded Communicators for Christ conferences to train Christian parents, educators, and students to exercise and refine communication skills for the glory of the One who designed us to communicate. This grew into the Institute for Cultural Communicators which extends the same transformational training to families across the globe. Now Teresa is an internationally-recognized seminar speaker, education consultant, author, and leadership coach.
While educating her own sons and equipping other parents and teacher in the U.S., Dr. Moon designed curriculum and training programs to deliver ongoing resources and coaching to families in their own communities. Through ICC, this curriculum has now been distributed to 20+ countries and supports chapters and/or delegates in 7+ countries.
Each year, Dr. Moon travels globally, leading educational conferences to train students, teachers, and parents to become “cultural communicators” who can impact culture through relevant communication and authentic leadership. Teresa’s students have been invited to speak on tens of thousands of platforms to influence audiences for Christ – including the White House, Congress, the G8 Summit, the United Nations and churches, schools and heads of state in more than twenty nations.
