2008 Yes2Kids Conference

Vernice "Strong As" Armour
"You're Leadership Coach for the 21st Century

One of the few and the proud, during the start of the war in March 2003, United States Marine Corps Captain Vernice “Junk” Armour was one of 1,500 female Marines in the Persian Gulf fighting to dismantle the regime of Saddam Hussein in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 33-year-old captain from Memphis, TN, has the added distinction of being the first African American female pilot in the Marine Corps and first African American female combat pilot in U.S. Military history.

Vernice will teach you leadership, teamwork, and communication skills that will help bring you through your own “Combat” situations! She will show your organization how to instill winning discipline, focus, and empowerment strategies...refined in the military...but now adapted for your management team. Focus your team... without losing creativity. Win with “Your Leadership Coach for the 21st Century!”

Chauncey Veatch, 2002-2003 National Techer of the Year
During a White House Rose Garden ceremony, on April 24, 2002, Chauncey Veatch was named National Teacher of the Year. Previously, he had been named California, Riverside County, Coachella Valley U.S.D., Coachella Valley High School, Bilingual Education and Migrant Education Teacher of the Year.

As the College Board’s International Visiting Scholar Veatch travels as a distinguished lecturer with published works on globalization, diversity, and access to post-secondary education. He also serves on Visa USA’s Educator Advisory Council and as a consultant for its financial literacy programs. He is an author and academic advisor in the development
of students’ critical language and reading skills for Scholastic’s Zip Zoom English, Read 180, and RED programs. These are technology-based K-12 programs for school administrators, reading coaches, and teachers.
Veatch was recently named International Ambassador for Education by La Prensa Hispana. He is active in the Troops to Teachers Program, the PTA’s National Outreach program to African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American students. In addition to teaching in his district, Veatch is developing the International Student Leadership Academy as a teacher on assignment to the California Governor’s Office and the Riverside County Office of Education. Veatch also served on the Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, the National Advisory Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Year of Languages.

Wavelength has performed for over one million people in educational organizations worldwide, and has been a featured presenter at national conferences for ASCD, AASA, NSDC, NASSP, NAESP, NEA, AFT, NMSA, and the I.D.E.A. Fellows Program.

Featuring a diverse cast of actors, Wavelength offers a fresh perspective on the key challenges in education today. Our programs are founded on the tenet that humor heals and enlightens. Of course, we also realized that by focusing our humor on education, we'd never run out of material!