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Have something people need to understand?
Mike Pope helps people understand complicated things.
Mike has spent his career teaching people—students, staff, parents, coaches, leaders, and entire rooms. He can learn a product, process, system, initiative, or message quickly, find what matters to the audience, and explain it in a way people can understand and use.
He is available for the right full-time field role, contract or fractional assignment, project, workshop, training engagement, speaking engagement, facilitation, or special assignment.
Where Mike fits
- Training
- Facilitation
- Customer education
- Product enablement
- Implementation support
- Professional learning
- Workshops
- Speaking
- Hosting and moderating
- Special projects
22 years in education8 teaching · 14 administrationPrincipal · professional learning · public speakingPowerSchool · Skyward · Hero / PlascoTrack
Books and original work
The work is already on the shelf.
Our catalog is not a promise about what Mike might make. It is a body of serious books, practical guides, satire, and stories already written, published, and available to readers.
Mr. Yeser satire
Mr. Yeser's (UNOFFICIAL) Guide to Teaching
How to Give Everything, Stay Late, and Still Need to Do MoreGet the book →
Serious education
It All Falls on the Kid
The True Cost of Evaluation in American SchoolsGet the book →The complete catalog
Twenty published books—and more in progress.
Mike Pope books, Pope Guides, Mr. Yeser's Unofficial Guides, and Maroa Stories all live under Pope Studios.Browse all books →
Stories from small-town AmericaMaroa Stories + Maroa Remembers
True stories. A book to keep. A memory to share.
We publish Maroa Stories and collect true memories from the people who lived them. Read the latest story, buy the first volume, or send us the memory only you can tell.
Latest story: The School Play
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